Creature Quotes

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She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans. — Benjamin Disraeli
All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if they need help.… — Francis of Assisi
Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every… — Meister Eckhart
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and… — George Cheyne
The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds… — George Grenville
In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger. — Maurice Sendak
What should happen is a little voice in your head, like Jimmy Cricket in Pinocchio, will go 'But Russell, that bird, that's a creature like… — Russell Brand
There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own. — David Starr Jordan
Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only… — Adam Gopnik
The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning. — David Quammen
Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory. — William Kennedy
As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you… — Mark Lawrence
A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own — Jay Griffiths
Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact,… — Kathleen Tessaro
Chimpanzees, more than any other living creature, have helped us to understand that there is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the… — Jane Goodall
Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. ... It has the… — Lewis Thomas
Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute animated creature. — Kate Bornstein
Man is a restless creature, nomadic at heart. — Tash Aw
The loss of the religious understanding of the human conditionâ€”that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never fully attainableâ€”is a… — Theodore Dalrymple
And it was there that I saw the most appealing creature in the whole shop. He had a slight chink out of one foot and… — Chris d'Lacey

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