Creatures Quotes

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Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime. — Leo Tolstoy
This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight… — Dave Eggers
How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation! — John Muir
He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence. — Virginia Woolf
The creatures that inhabit this earth--be they human beings or animals--are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity… — Dalai Lama
...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature." It has become a symbol now....… — Lian Hearn
How many times have I wondered if it is really possible to forge links with a mass of people when one has never had strong… — Antonio Gramsci
If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever… — William Wilberforce
In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri… — Douglas Adams
So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a… — Benjamin Franklin
The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only… — Theodore Roosevelt
Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy… — John Hodgman
But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad… — Robert A. Heinlein
Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit… — George MacDonald
It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you… — C.S. Lewis
The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open… — Philip K. Dick
Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have… — Sue Monk Kidd
The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence,… — Jean Cocteau
Armel shrugged. "I suppose so, Brother, but why do creatures have to fight?" Demple picked Mudge up and placed him on his shoulder. "Because there's… — Brian Jacques

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