Animal Quotes

With people in the world such as 'Jamie Oliver' and [TV chef] Clarissa Dickson-Wright there isn't much hope for animals.

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.

It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.

I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.

Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

Embracing our environment is a good direction, a very spiritual direction. It's too Aristotelian to separate man from the animals and man; humans from the environment.

In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls.

We're fascinated by animals because it's almost like having Martians living among us. We can see some familiarity in them, but they're entirely different creatures.

Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot.

States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated.

Animals can seem more pure. Without complication, I mean, animals are selfless. What animals do for us, they do out of instinct.

I've definitely taken a lot of consolation from animals in my life. There have been times when I've been really sad, and they gave solace and comfort and companionability more than a person.

I love to teach, I love to draw, I love animals. So I don't feel like I am relying on one thing to lead me in my career.

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals

From Him are all name and form; all the animals and men are from Him. He is the one Supreme. He who knows Him becomes free.

Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.

We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become unhealthy.

Men may have given millions of dollars and fed rats and cats, as some do in India. They say that men can take care of themselves, but the poor animals cannot. . .

Let me assure you that all of our pets, and animals of every kind will be with us for eternity on the Other Side.

Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.

A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.

You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.

Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks.

People are always the start for meanimals. When I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings,immortals, the deadthese are all people to me.

Animals do not betray; they do not exploit; they do not oppress; they do not enslave; they do not sin. They have their being, and their being is honest, and who can say this of man?

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

Hunting, fishing, and trapping is literally perfect. It's the perfect system by which to balance and ground the animal populations for next year's productivity.

To understand animal thinking you've got to get away from a language.

I've got my one area I work in and I want to educate people about autism and I also want to improve, you know, animal handling and transport and make a real change out in the field on the ground.

I played around with vegetarianism back in the '70s. One thing, my physiology just got to have animal protein. I get hypoglycemic, I get all light-headed unless I eat animal protein.

Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.

We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.

We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.

Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data on a drug it should probably be looked at very carefully.

As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.

The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week?

A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or tortures animals.

God answered the prayers of animals.

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

For us to remain in this world, our animal brain has to be there to support us.

At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to have an experience of separation from others.

Jumpy is the most incredible animal of all time. The movie [Valley of Violence] is the tamest example of what that dog is capable of.

I would never go to jail to protect animals or plants or wilderness. For me, it’s about the people.

These are different animals now. They're starting to winnow out the weak at the fringe of the herd. We need to hurry or this could affect our snack situation.

Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.

Everything that I've done in my life was to lead me to my work with the animals.

Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity.

A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow.

I think when Aristotle said that man is a political animal, he was really saying that man is a pack animal.

From an egotistical point of view, I'm always interested in roles that push me as a person. I'm interested in humans as animals and as products of society.