The Animals Quotes

Only wild animals harm each other.

The inner encounters I have with animals—and will be teaching you to have— are exchanges of meaning.

The most striking quality that humans and animals have in common is the capacity to experience suffering.

Today we have made a fetish of choice

He has been mad for you these many months, ever since you prodded him in the nether regions with a hedgehog.

People who think animals have expressionless faces are like people who can ignore an open package of Oreos. Not quite human.

That is my story. Believe what you will. I remember it all

Fighting with tangles, fighting with curls, the poor barber yanked, the poor barber pulled, until with one last effort(and to the wonder of us all)a GINORMOUS Polar Bearlanded on the floor.

And I thought kitty liter was the unlawful practice of discarding small felines along the roadside.

...a world where a sparrow's fate and that of a man can be decided in the blink of a cat's eye, such is the true measure of time.

For my little dog, Pip, who joined our family during the writing ofthis story. Thanks for rescuing me.

I live in different worlds. One world where I perform my duty as a part of society. My favorite is my world. The writing's world.

Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand.

Contrary to popular belief, some animals would not have each chosen to be a human being, if they were given the choice between being what they are and being human.

When a man is at peace he is a man, when angry he is an animal.

Humanity has determined it is supreme in the kingdom of animals, yet [the] beasts live a less tragic existence...and many of their tragedies are a consequence of so-called human brilliance.

We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?

Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?

Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity’s reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.

One's interest or need does not annul other's right.

Even a wolf knows how to be polite when animalistic humans have no clue about politeness

Dr. John Nash Ott had discovered by 1987 that glass, artificial light sources, electricity and electronic systems were having extensive detrimental effects on plants, animals and humans.

It's brutal out there. A bear will eat a lactating ewe alive, starting with her udders. as a rule, animals in the wild don't get good deaths surrounded by their loved ones.

Meat may taste good, but the guilt of eating it tastes far worse.

Fed by plants, fed up with the world

You bite the hand that feeds, Speedy said.Humans don't like that.They view it as a sign of ingratitude.I never asked anyone to feed me.That doesn't seem to matter to them.

Get out of bed and feed me already, person!

Wolves and Doves mate for life. I hope in the next life I am one of the two.

To be heartbroken means to have a story

It wasn't the wild animals that scared her, but the civilised ones.

As long as humans feel they are forced to defend their own rights and worth by placing someone beneath them, oppression will not end.

I've known humans, and I know beasts. The beast is better. It is unpretentious. It kills for food. Humans do 'cause they're just not any good.

Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.

We humans are such complicated and confused beings that we call the animals beasts.

As far as I'm concerned, the gator that ate T.C. deserves a medal from Crime Stoppers.

What separates man from animal is not the things we build or the ideas we stand behind. Its our ability to kill from a distance that makes us different

We are only fully human when we act as if the life beyond us matters.

Good stories are like those noble wild animals that make their home in hidden spots, and you must often settle down at the entrance of the caves and woods and lie in wait for them a long time.

It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with all the secret stories of the earth.

It all begins with faith. If we believed animal went to heaven, we wouldn't send them there prematurely

Every living thing deserves our respect... be it humble or proud, ugly or beautiful.

The same way he treats animals and other vulnerable individuals is the same way he’ll relate to your feminine side.

The problem with love is that there is so much of it to give." King Tommy

I spent the day running through the woods like a wild animal. Being chased by you is the only thing that would have made it more romantic.

He who runs with the platypus is no more a man than he who swallows chesnuts

All life on earth is inextricably bound together in a web of mutual interdependence.

The aquatic environment must be safeguarded by men. God created mankind to care for the environment and all the living resources.

God is not only something metaphysical, but also the physical world, the plants and animals, the mountains and rivers, the air and the sun and the earth.

As long as we do violence to other animals, we’ll keep on doing violence to ourselves.

A smile is merely a symptom of the human condition called happiness. Animals are affected by that condition more often though the symptoms are not so obvious.