Animal Quotes

The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.

For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.

One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

First be a good animal.

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.

People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm : all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable than others.

Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and the old world supplied them all.

We often ask, "Do we have enough humans?" Because it's always fun to come up with an animal in show, but it begins to feel like overkill.

On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside.

The intellectual controls the spiritual, the animal respects the natural.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.

As you get older as an animal on the planet, you want to get a little more comfortable, you want to get cozier.

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.

The resemblance of the signs of the zodiac to the animals after which they are named... is as unimpressive as the predictions of astrologers.

Julia [Roberts]. She's got two kids and animals, and I think she's a night nibbler. There'd be crumbs everywhere.

I'd like to think they're staring at me because of my white-hot animal magnetism, but I'm not Elvis. I'm Lobster Boy, hear me roar.

The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.

Whether it's simply some fierce animal joining of mates or a sublime merging of souls, she is mine, and I am hers.

The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity with the personalities that come up, but actors are their own animal.

You put the Set animal in your locker? Do you know how much strength that requires?” “Yeah,” I said. “I was there.

I turned to human suffering because - this may sound odd - animal suffering is more difficult for me to deal with.

We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

Chris [Farley] - I would consider him a comic animal. With the emphasis on "animal."

By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

The only difference between us and the animals is our ability to accessorize!

The role of the animal messenger in the dreams of modern city-dwellers is often to recall us to our wild side, and the natural path of our energy.

If some readers take away the idea that animals deserve better treatment in general, then I certainly won't argue.

Human beings are such social animals. We're very connected with the feelings of those we're close to, so we can't really be happy when the ones we are close to are unhappy.

You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.

It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.

My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.

I don't think it's man's function to write. I don't think it's a normal thing like teeth-brushing and going to the bathroom. It's a supered position on the animal.

Human beings are special, of higher dignity and worth than other animals, because they're created in God's own image and likeness. It's actually true humanism.

There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.

You have to bring to the photograph a prejudice about something, and I'm prejudiced against farmers who tie dead animals on fences. Therefore, I can make a meaningful photograph.

Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.

I love shooting guns. I would never shoot an animal or hunt, but I probably would be a very good hit woman. It's hand-in-glove for me.

Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.

I'm not opposed to the protection of animals. But the best way to do that is to make sure some human being owns them.

Don't listen to me. I'm a maniac, but the voice in your head, ask it "Is it right to kill 200 million animals simply for fun?". What did it say? Right. There you go.

Animals, children, and the working class comprise the company in which I'll feel most at ease.

You shouldn't eat animals, it's mean to them.

I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.

I don't eat any animals or anything that has to do with animals. No fish or egg or dairy because I personally don't feel it's a good practice to eat anything that might run away from you.

Unconscious behavior is at the core. Think of the 40 billion animals we abuse and eat who are born into suffering. It's a karmic disaster.

We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to those creatures of our common Father which share with man the mystery of life.

It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.

I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.