Animal Quotes · Page 196

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

— Michael Morpurgo

Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I…

— Kate Christensen

I wanna dog..but I don't like picking up shit off pavements. Hmmmm? Gonna live on a island...no Pavements.

— Idris Elba

How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to…

— Mother Teresa

Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.

— Charles Darwin

Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.

— George Santayana

We're the only species who follow unstable leaders. This is true - it has little to do with America - around the…

— Cesar Millan

You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the…

— Tippi Hedren

'Meat' is a vague term and can be used to refer to many parts of an animal, including internal organs and skin.…

— Michael Specter

It's absolutely impossible to have a serious critical discussion about enthusiasms for movie stars. Because a movie star is an animal separate…

— Peter Biskind

“Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves…

— Suzy Kassem

There is no difference between sitting around the pit watching dogs fight and sitting around a summer barbecue roasting the corpses of…

— Gary L. Francione

When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she's preaching. I'm not preaching, but I think maybe I learned it…

— Betty White

We don't have to go to wild places to find wildlife. A surprisingly wide range of species can be found in our…

— Roger Tory Peterson

An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose…

— Daniel Pauly

Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use…

— Richard Dooling

Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

When a stray animal crosses your path, it may be as close to God as you're going to get in this lifetime.

— Kinky Friedman

Certainly it's very often true that women tend to be a bit quieter and more prepared to sit there and let the…

— Jane Goodall

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot…

— Robert Benchley

My favorite wild animal is a narwhal - the unicorn of the sea. It's a whale with a tooth that sticks out…

— Kesha

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

— Walter Annenberg

The Sun-Paul must consider only one thing: what is the relation of this or that external reaction of the animal to the…

— Ivan Pavlov

Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot.

— Joel Salatin

Scientists have shown that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each other, and even learning names.

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

An old proverb says: an elephant never minds barking dogs, but highlight is that the dog 'keeps barking even with no reaction'…

— Melchor Lim

The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity.

— Constantin-Francois Chasseboeuf

I think people really liked Bill Clinton. They'd like to see him get elected, but Hillary's just a different animal.

— John Layfield

“...of all creatures that breathe and move on earth none is more to be pitied than a man.”

— Homer

Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.

— H. L. Mencken

“It's not enough to do research from a distance. It's by living beside animals that you learn their behavior and psychology." On…

— Diane Ackerman

“Nice people like them by children like him and raise them as pets. But he didn't want to be a pet today.”

— John Elder Robison

This dog, is dog, a dog, good dog, way dog, to dog, keep dog, an dog, idiot dog, busy dog, for dog,…

— Anonymous

“We call our worst enemies dogs, but they don't deserve it because dogs are the friends of man.”

— Manlio Argueta

So if animals aren't our friends, then what are they? The answer can be summed up between two buns.

— Stephen Colbert

Well, it's a lot less dangerous - working with snakes and mountaibn lions and dangerous animals - than working in Hollywood [laughs].…

— Bernie Krause

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

— Hal Holbrook

Dumb animals we call them, while they bark and neigh and moo. They talk as much as we do - to them…

— Rebecca McCann

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans…

— David Duchovny