“No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature, which holds its life by the same tenure… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
There is no more foul or relentless enemy of man in the occult world than this dead-alive creature spewed up from the… — Guy Endore Copy Share Image
The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser,… — David McCord Copy Share Image
To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
A man's greatness is neither determined by having great dreams nor by his determination to realize them; but by his contribution -… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before large… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Whether that expansion is towards the beings around you or flora, fauna, and creatures. Love has so many unique yet consistent forms.… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
The first thing Islam does is to destroy the self image of the believers. It convinces them that without Islam they are… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest,… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
I have full faith in people. I think that we have the ability to change. We're habitual creatures. Once we figure out… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
And thus, in full, there are four classes: the men who feel nothing, and therefore see truly; the men who feel strongly,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason. — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think this is interesting, us human creatures are capable of love, and it's a very powerful emotion. It also can go… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures". — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
I'm always frightened away by movies that lower the bar on our endeavor to learn more about the crazy weird creatures that… — Jason Ritter Copy Share Image
I always loved those little creatures [hummingbird], always feel blessed when they appear nearby. There's a magical quality to them. I finally… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Here, the world slows down, takes a pause, offering refuge to hidden and discreet creatures.” — David Passarelli Copy Share Image
...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways. — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there… — Walter Besant Copy Share Image
I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the beauty of life and that goes for all creatures… — Alicia Silverstone Copy Share Image
What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather... Humans are… — Dan Buettner Copy Share Image