Animal Quotes · Page 172

Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied, another appears in its place. This process…

— Douglas McGregor

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system,…

— Benjamin Franklin

Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.

— Louis Agassiz

I wanted to do a show about a character that was an innocent, and so I focused on a sea sponge because…

— Stephen Hillenburg

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic…

— Edward Abbey

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

— Homer

Many images of animals, mammals or birds, resurface regularly in my narratives. They are not symbols, but chromatic benchmarks. For me, music…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

“The term stray refers to dogs and cats, animals traditionally viewed as pet animals, that are homeless and thus devoid of human…

— Linda Merz-Perez

Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of…

— Jared Diamond

I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the…

— Beryl Markham

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the…

— Robert Lanza

Religion humanizes this universe, makes us feel important and loved. We are not animals governed by uncontrollable drives, animals that die for…

— Robert Greene

We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the…

— Anna Louise Strong

My dogs have been the reason I have woken up every single day with a smile on my face. I am among…

— Jennifer Skiff

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.

— Malcolm De Chazal

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.

— Erving Goffman

Show business is dog eat dog. It's worse than dog eat dog. It's dog doesn't return dog's phone calls.

— Woody Allen

Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal.

— Robin Williams

“(...) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid. Ready…

— Veronica Roth

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

— Alfred de Vigny

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog - keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America

— Philip Reeve

“Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.”

— Anonymous

Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.

— Cesar Millan

If you don't like seeing pictures of violence towards animals being posted, you need to help stop the violence, not the pictures.

— Johnny Depp

A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.

— John Holmes

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they…

— Agatha Christie

“Not only was [her dog] a good companion, he was also like a permission slip to be more present in the world.”

— Andrea Lochen

Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of…

— Wendell Berry

I have deliberately arranged my life so that I see pictures of cute animals on the Internet every day.

— Michelle Dean

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals…

— Jared Diamond

“Biology keeps culture on a leash, which is why you can’t teach a dog to play poker, never mind all those lying…

— Gregory Cochran

Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners.

— Robert Ardrey

I just don't think I've had the desire yet to write a vicious animal - like a dog-gone-bad or anything - where…

— Sara Gruen

Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have.

— Thom Jones

“The bliss of stroking an octopus’s head is difficult to convey to most people, even to animal lovers.”

— Sy Montgomery

Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature - in the good sense of the word - will he create…

— Wilhelm Reich