Animal Quotes · Page 216

It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.

— Robley Wilson

Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children…

— Igor Stravinsky

“Impudent dog! God knows why I bear with you!’ Harding grinned. ‘Probably, sir. Omniscient, isn’t He?”

— Elizabeth Rolls

If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.

— RuPaul

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals . . .

— Edward Gibbon

Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they…

— Isabella Rossellini

Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear.

— Anonymous

“Animals are not ours to Eat. Animals are not ours to Wear. Animals are not ours to Experiment On. Animals are not…

— Peta

Every year tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests of cosmetics and household products...despite the fact that the…

— Woody Harrelson

I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of,…

— Gottfried Leibniz

I've always loved dogs and have had one since I was three. We bought her from a kid selling puppies out of…

— Bob Peterson

The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time…

— Albert Schweitzer

Nothing is more violent and radical than what's being done to non-human animals in our society. If a researcher won't stop abusing…

— Jerry Vlasak

We live in a zoo, and we get to share all our animals with the people who come in. We really put…

— Bindi Irwin

“Imagine you live on a planet where the dominant species is far more intellectually sophisticated than human beings but often keeps humans…

— Jean Donaldson

A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's…

— Abbey Lee Kershaw

We wanted to help people afford service dogs. Not only is that about dogs helping people, it's about people helping dogs, because…

— Jessica Pegula

Giraffes are fairytale animals, almost heraldic - as if from the land of fables. They have extremely beautiful faces, huge eyes, very…

— Joanna Lumley

It's very expensive to maintain pure breed pigs. But I am an animal lover, so it wasn't a problem for me.

— Ravi Babu

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

— Victor Hugo

I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we…

— Jane Goodall

Veganism can resurrect Eden and create heaven on Earth. We can have a place where humans view animals in awe, and animals…

— Gary Yourofsky

I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.

— Sadie Frost

Never use dogs to symbolize anything. That is ridiculous. Always ensure that any dogs are just dogs; i.e., characters in the story…

— Lynn Coady

The inconvenience and the suffering of any children or any family members pales in comparison to the suffering and oppression that goes…

— Jerry Vlasak

You're an animal that needs to move across the landscape, you can't anymore, and that's another way we're just changing the surface…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Sometimes I tried to talk to my dog like..ugh,,when no one wants to talk to, he's the only one who undersatands me.

— Shennon Fabiano

You use to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat.

— Bob Dylan

I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.

— Charles E. McKenzie

Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once…

— David C. Coates

Our animal friends’ non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis.

— Eckhart Tolle

Admit it, we all feel much worse for the homeless guy's dog than we do for the homeless guy.

— Anonymous

Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together.

— Maureen Johnson

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can…

— Karl Marx

It may surprise people to learn that one elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its ivory.

— Li Bingbing

“I longed for the pitter-patter of little feet, so I got a dog. It’s cheaper, and you get more feet.”

— Garrison Keillor

For a large number of problems, there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can…

— August Krogh

God put many animals here [on Earth] for pets, playthings and companions for us and our children, and we're still going to…

— David Berg