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Animals Quotes & Sayings

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Taking another life, she had whispered, even a guilty one, should never be easy. If it were, we'd be little more than animals. — Mary E. Pearson

Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. — Nadine Gordimer

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. — Josh Billings

Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places. — Hunter S. Thompson

Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive. — Robyn Davidson

We're all animals. — John Malkovich

I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets. — Padgett Powell

I have a responsibility as a human being to care for animals - including politicians. — Jarod Kintz

Animals know. They know how a soul is stitched together. They know what it's made of before anyone else gets a clue. — Alex A. King

The true sea is cold and black, full of animals... — Jean-Paul Sartre

Animals shouldn't eat gumdrops! They shouldn't drink tea or chocolate milk, either. — Michael Buckley

I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage; the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue. — Vita Sackville-West

There are no wild animals until man makes them so. — Mark Twain

The world is better without
them.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them. — Charles Bukowski

Animals should be treated the same as you would a kid. Would you want someone just to walk up and skin your kid? Hell no! — Waka Flocka Flame

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life. — Roger A. Caras

The truth is that civilization does not protect us from wild animals. It attempts, however imperfectly, to protect us from ourselves. — Michael Crichton

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

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them? — Sue Monk Kidd

You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers? — Don King

Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are. — Bernadette Peters

My music is best understood by children and animals. — Igor Stravinsky

The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people ... The slavery of animals has to be ended too. — Benjamin Zephaniah

Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable mystery. — Lewis Thomas

We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles. — Gloria Steinem

My main message to folks who love animals is that you can do something every day to help them. — Alison Eastwood

Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand. — Pat Derby

They're not fat pigs; we're mad scientists. — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Humans are the only animals that draw ... Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood. — Peter Steinhart

All told, farmed animals in the United States produce 130 times as much waste as the human population - — Jonathan Safran Foer

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

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

I would like to do all kinds of things: photography and art and designing; I want to help do charity things for animals and things like that. — Georgia May Jagger

Anyone who cares about the Earth - really cares - must stop eating animals. — Linda McCartney

Opposable thumbs are overrated. — Terry Kaye

The work of teaching and organizing the others fell naturally upon the pigs, who were generally recognized as being the cleverest of the animals. — George Orwell

I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it. — Kirsty Gallacher

[S]he's a yuppie libtard, ya know? She's just going to fund things to help animals and weird people. I don't like that kind of shit. — Brad McKinniss

We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for fashion. — Charlize Theron

Guns aren't toys! They're for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the King of England out of your face! — Homer

Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity. — Yann Martel

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man. — Thomas Love Peacock

You understand why some animals eat their young. — John Paul Jones

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

Animals not only make music, they hear it in unique fashion. — Mitch Albom

I love animals, but I don't really like riding animals. Like, I don't love being on a horse - it's just not my thing. — Miley Cyrus

There are many people out there (me being one of them) who can vouch that animals have feelings; they feel compassion and love, as well as pain! — Jane Goodall

Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind. — Fakeer Ishavardas

Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. — James Stewart

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. — Paul Valery

Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence. — Adam Smith

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that. — Tony Gilroy

No. They believe we're dumb animals. And they won't contradict their bigotry by listening with their own ears. — Ursley Kempe

The whole horror of the situation is that he now has a human heart, not a dog's heart. And about the rottenest heart in all creation! — Mikhail Bulgakov

We imagine people as animals or gods. -But she was just a person, a girl. — John Green

We are so unconscious about our actions that we don't even realize the immense suffering we are causing to animals, the planet, and ourselves. — Sharon Gannon

I'm a real animal lover. I adore animals of all shapes and sizes. — Tamsin Egerton

There is the incense of wisdom, whispering, to speak of grace in the dark/there is the scent of primal animals, grappling with the glory of the dark. — R. Paul Sardanas

Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire. — Robert Breault

For actors in Hollywood, it's very straightforward. We're well-paid animals in a zoo. — Robin Wright

Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises. — Oliver Stone

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals. — Tacitus

Man is the most intelligent of animals
and the most silly. — Diogenes Laertius

Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals. — Quentin Tarantino

Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted. — Walter Scott

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams . — James Branch Cabell

Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by. — Ingrid Newkirk

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word. — Margaret Atwood

animals are strictly dry, they sinless live and swiftly die, but sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men, survive for three-score years and ten. — Robert Traver

They were like animals, men. They found too much direct contact threatening — Jojo Moyes

I'm a dog lover and sex addict. Those two things are unrelated. — Dark Jar Tin Zoo

Greatest felicity of any human or animals is to feed own belly — Kunal Jajal

First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people. — Edward Bond

Sick animals can lead to sick people. — Michael Greger

Wild animals walked in a straight line, tame ones tended to wander more aimlessly. — Asne Seierstad

Animals for the most part just need to be left alone. — Wayne Pacelle

They say people who work with animals do it because they're no good around other people. — Jodi Picoult

It's very important that we have a president who is mindful of the cruelty that is perpetrated on animals. — Barack Obama

Murderers very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids. — Robert Ressler

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial. — Malcolm De Chazal

Even if only one person's respect for animals increases, then writing Talon would have been worthwhile. — Christopher Gerard

I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles. — Amy Weber

Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals. — Averroes

I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way. — Camren Bicondova

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals. — J.M. Coetzee

Everywhere animals are in chains, but we image them as free. — Carol J. Adams

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants. — A. Whitney Brown

Like trapped animals struggling to break free. What a curse was sickness in old age. This damned Parkinson's, cruel as torture. — Rohinton Mistry

Your body's made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function. — Dolph Lundgren

What does the leopard teach us? Not to be intimidated by animals that outweigh him. To be fearless and daring. It — J.D. Jacobs

We have wild animals in zoos, yet people rarely meet their 'food' face to face. — Elayne Boosler

You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.'
'That's why animals are so soft and huggy. — Bill Watterson

It is possible for the devil to inhabit animals the same way he inhabits humans and that causes a sin of lust. — Gordon Klingenschmitt

Animals should be given a chance to express their natural behavior. — Frans De Waal

Animals travel on all fours. Mankind on two. Motorcycling is not a means of transport but an ideology, a nomadic way of life. — Amit Reddy

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore. — Edgar Allan Poe

And so what do dogs want? They want what they want when they want it. Just like us. — Ted Kerasote

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 — Swami Vivekananda

A quick and brutal fuck from behind usually served as an effective reminder of where you stood in the pack hierarchy. — Nenia Campbell

Dickon, and Dickon brought his tame animals, and, if you'll credit it, sir, out of doors he — Frances Hodgson Burnett