Animals Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Animals in our lives can be a blessing.”

— J. Wesley Porter

“God not only gives His creatures being and existence, but also, and at every moment, upholds and sustains them in being.”

— The Catechism of the Catholic Church

“Perhaps the greatest gift an animal has to offer is a permanent reminder of who we really are.”

— Nick Trout

“Only a lover of animals will understand the sudden feeling of loss, of emptiness, and the intuitive bond which exists between man and dog,…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Whenever I needed a reassuring touch, Tuesday was there. He was my miracle dog. I already loved him and depended on him more than…

— Luis Carlos Montalván

“Each day is a day to live and in which to keep from dying, and a man’s energies are directed out from himself and…

— Louis L'Amour

“Has the world become so topsy-turvy that a living creature, whom the gift of reason makes divine, believes that his glory lies solely in…

— Boethius

“...it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths that distinguishes us from the mere animals and gives us Reason and the sciences, raising…

— Gottfried Leibniz

“No animal will change when its conditions are good enough for present survival. And in this matter man is still an animal.”

— H.G. Wells

“It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy…

— Anonymous

“Love the animals: God gave them the rudiments of thought and an untroubled joy.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Hegel on sacrifice. The animal dies. The man becomes alert.”

— Anne Carson