Affection Quote by Paul Theroux

Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.

— Gerald Durrell

Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as…

— John Grogan

[Animals] appreciate others' affection, they also have the sort of ability to show their own affection. And then as soon as we're born, child,…

— Dalai Lama

When you have an animal in your home, a relationship forms very quickly, where that animal ceases to be an animal to you. It…

— Elijah Wood

I think the primary gift of the animal is offered to writer and non-writer alike; they teach us about love, or attunement, which is…

— C.E. Morgan

I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they're not…

— Dick Van Patten

... direct [people] towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

Just give food without showing affection, [animals] might not get sort of 100% satisfaction. So they also, you see, when we human beings, we…

— Dalai Lama

“Sometimes conceiving an affection for an animal is easier than for a human.”

— Arto Paasilinna

“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

But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you're going to go after animals who…

— Eric Roberts