Animal Quotes · Page 206

'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think…

— Annie Dillard

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And…

— Charlotte Gray

Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.

— Marvin Harris

“Man is the only animal on earth intelligent enough to invent God and foolish enough to believe in Him.”

— Manoj Vaz

“[man] "I had no idea becoming an animal was this much bother." [Luxander} "You've always been one, sir. It's making you an…

— Dan Hurwitz

It takes a true encounter to realise that real animals, wild animals, have all but passed from our lives.

— John Burnside

Have you ever seen an animal make a mistake / probably will not see / mistakes just do human's, because they have mind

— Mak_786

A state has the right to prohibit the killing of dogs and bears whether for film or for other purposes.

— Alan Dershowitz

Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

I don't think that the world would be a better place if everyone owned a dog, and I don't think that all…

— Caroline Knapp

Henceforth, whilst there are a great many theories and models proposed as to how, or why, magic works (based on subtle energies,…

— Phil Hine

A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of…

— Carol Browner

I've been in New York for 14 years. I would never leave for good. The city is so much more alive than…

— Anika Noni Rose

There are cases where the dog is not compatible to the house. There are people that don't have the strength. There are…

— Cesar Millan

O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, even our brothers, the animals, to whom Thou gavest…

— Saint Basil

We're all carnies, though some people are in denial. They want to be above it all, above the mayhem of laughter and…

— N.D. Wilson

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

— Thomas Jefferson

I liked animals more than people! OK, I liked certain people, but the idea of mankind'-it really irritated me!

— Kirstie Alley

If you want a dog, go to your local animal shelter and adopt one. It's not rocket science, it's dog science.

— Emma Kenney

Deny my individuality and I become an animal, mute, a mere creature of all the forces that act upon me.

— Murray Bookchin

There's something incredibly tragic about Kong. You feel almost feel ashamed to be a human being when you see what happens to…

— Peter Jackson

“And, indeed, compared to other animals, humans are born prematurely, when many of their vital systems are still underdeveloped.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.

— Isak Dinesen

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

— Thomas Jefferson

The large executive chair elevates the sitter. and it is covered with the skin of some animal, preferably your predecessor.

— Emilio Ambasz

“Man is the only animal that strives to be more than he is…it is the indomitable spirit within that makes him human.”

— Steven Lang

Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved,…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I'm fond of animals because, despite the fact I'm a human, I'm not just brain...but heart and love as well.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do..

— Cesar Chavez

Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears.

— Brian Jacques

For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and…

— Roger Caras

My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.

— Robert Winston

Dog’ is ‘God’ spelled backward; you know that. That’s why you’re here, to help the nuns do God’s work.

— W. Bruce Cameron

Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?

— Anonymous

Word to Muhammad, that triple beam is heaven-sent. Riding through the jungles in that muthafuckin' elephant.

— The Game

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

— Eric Hoffer

At my parents house, there are three dogs. I've grown up with these four-legged creatures all my life.

— Abhay Deol

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a…

— Francois Truffaut