Animal Quote by Caroline Knapp

“Emotional attachments to and functions of animals in human families are highly variable — and not always positive. Some family pets are surrogate children,…

— Jessica Pierce

I was always empathetic with animals. It's a terrible and self-involved point of view that we do something because someone else is exploitable.

— Lily Tomlin

People fantasize about working with animals, and then they start doing it, and then they start to believe that they're indispensable and the animal…

— Eric Goode

There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival.

— Tara Brach

“Allowing attachments to people/things create a compulsive addiction in us to be controlling. This “control” (fueled by fear of loss) fools us into a…

— Gary Hopkins

I think we're insecure about our self-imposed spot at the top of the pyramid of life. New studies are continually undermining our superiority complex…

— Jonathan Balcombe

Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.

— Pamela Anderson

“Though reason must guide us in laying down standards and laws regarding animals, and in examining the arguments of those who reject such standards,…

— Matthew Scully

I've got a lot of people that are really good at taming animals and working with animals; and they can't explain how they do.…

— Temple Grandin

If attachment then carries forward in a way that's not healthy, we need to let it be there without making it wrong and bring…

— Tara Brach

I think I have a karmic connection with animals. They add so much value to my life and I feel comfortable with them over…

— Ravi Babu

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

— Paul Theroux