Animal Quote by Ambrose Bierce

ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear. In Virginia City, Nevada, he is called the Washoe Canary, in Dakota,…

— Ambrose Bierce

LEVIATHAN, n. An enormous aquatic animal mentioned by Job. Some suppose it to have been the whale, but that distinguished ichthyologer, Dr. Jordan, of…

— Ambrose Bierce

“The horn of an animal is called κέρας (kéras) in direct reference to Horus, which later on became associated with the Horse. That's how…

— Ibrahim Ibrahim

“Darwin's Ark The fact is, I know those ancestors floating through my sleep: an animal that breathed water, had a great swimming tail, an…

— Philip Appleman

It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or…

— Jules Verne

I'm not sure who discovered water, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a fish.

— Marshall McLuhan

He imagines Owens' body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his…

— Lisa Lang

“*The ancient whale-cry upon first sighting a whale from the mast-head, still used by whalemen in hunting the famous Gallipagos terrapin.”

— Herman Melville

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?

— Rupert Brooke

“The enemy is typically depicted as a dangerous octopus, a vicious dragon, a multiheaded hydra, a giant venomous tarantula, or an engulfing Leviathan. Other…

— Stanislav Grof

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

— Matthew Henry