Creatures Quotes

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The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world… — Arthur C. Clarke
I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than… — James Stewart
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world.… — Arthur C. Clarke
Other intelligent life-forms will differ greatly in appearance - they may resemble the creature in E.T. or startle us with their beauty - but life… — Frank Drake
Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute. — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper. — Robert Breault
The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of the word, is… — Lewis Mumford
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation… — Roberto Bolano
As for this young Ali, one cannot but like him. A noble-minded creature, as he shows himself, now and always afterwards; full of affection, of… — Edward Gibbon
The national government was itself the creature of the States...Yet today it is often made to appear that the creature, Frankenstein-like, is determined to destroy… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Man has made 32 million laws since THE COMMANDMENTS were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai more than three thousand years ago, but he… — Cecil B. DeMille
As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is the basis of… — Alexander Hamilton
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of… — Benjamin Rush
On love, not harming others, and respecting all beings. Even animals have these elements in their behavioral patterns. We should start by observing how animals… — Dalai Lama
Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other. — Harriet Ann Jacobs
The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most… — Henry Walter Bates
God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture… — Herman Melville
The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the fate of all… — Albert Schweitzer
The individual comes face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind has not come to a realisation of the… — J. Edgar Hoover
Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage,… — Annie Dillard

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