Animal Quotes · Page 153

Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.

— Paul Theroux

Man is so intelligent animal on earth that if he was empowered as much as God, he would start battling with him…

— Vikrant Parsai

The pit bull is not a breed but a conglomeration of traits, and those traits are reshaping what we think of as…

— Tom Junod

I got a dog and named him 'Stay'. Now, I go 'Come here, Stay!' After a while, the dog went insane and…

— Steven Wright

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I have a complicated relationship with non-human animals. I've never really been close to one.

— Rachel Zucker

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Terence McKenna

“An animal?" Thorne said, and she realized he'd been waiting for her to further explain what she was seeing. "It has long…

— marissa meyer

“Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their…

— Farley Mowat

“I have a dog of Blenheim birth, With fine long ears and full of mirth; And sometimes, running o'er the plain, He…

— John Ruskin

The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we've enlisted to do the work we couldn't handle - the horse,…

— Victoria Moran

Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots;…

— Steven Pinker

“One often finds some form of animal protection at the level of formal government rule, but even more commonly one finds animal…

— Paul Waldau

No, I'm not very productive at all. I'm probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the…

— Jonathan Ames

When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and…

— George Eliot

Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

— Abraham Lincoln

Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials

— Florence King

If you look at all forms of collectivism, be it communism or fascism, people are reduced to animals.

— Jack Larson

“This earth is a garden, this life a banquet, and it's time we realized that it was given to all life, animal…

— Anonymous

I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, it’s that…

— Amy Hempel

He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he…

— Porphyry

Love the woods and nature and the water and animals. Stop the BS with poaching and hunting. Preservation is critical.

— Taylor Dane

I have always put my own money into Tails of Joy. For years, every time a dog walked by, my husband would…

— Elayne Boosler

We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need…

— Gloria Steinem

The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's…

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Tony Gilroy

Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I bought my daughter a Chihuahua and I fell in love with it. So now I carry Coco around with me all…

— Denis Leary

I have two Jack Russell terriers, Harley and Gracie, who I like to go running with in the park.

— Megan Hilty

“the fact that the dogs knew who we were, and that they had categories for us, indicated that we humans make a…

— Gregory Berns

I had a dog I raised for many years. He was a Pekingese with big eyes and a flat face, very cute.

— Stephen Chow

The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys

— Albert Sabin

Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea…

— Will Rogers

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it…Like some animal.

— Denise Levertov

My relaxation has always been my animals - going to the dog park with them, going to the beach.

— Hilary Swank

Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Anybody can justify anything. It's what separates us from animals. It's a waste of time, though, isn't it-sitting around justifying when there's…

— John Brandon

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

— Jim Davis