Animals Quotes (1635 Quotes)

Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and hollyhock.

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

We're reaching out to people to give donations to help beautify something that's good for the animals, and good for the community. Most people aren't even aware we're here.

It's a good time to catch the interaction between the animals and their keepers.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

It's a property of this virus that it can go into these animals. One just has to watch and see what happens because the virus has the property to evolve.

HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was, therefore, only one quarter eagle, which is 2.50 in gold. Zoology is full of surprises.

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

They have a plan for the animals.

There is still a window of opportunity for substantially reducing the risk of a human pandemic evolving from H5N1 by controlling the virus at its source, in animals,

We now have the tools in terms of genetic markers and genetic maps, ... Now there are collections of bones of many of these ancient thoroughbreds that will enable us to get handles on some of these key animals.

He was a very difficult animal. This was a horse who, if you pulled the right rein he'd go left.

As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs.

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.

What they are doing to dogs is such a betrayal. This is an animal we have bred and selected for, for thousands of years, to become our pal, our companion.

It's a great sport for a young shooter to get into. My advice is to practice, have a lot of patience and a lot of persistence. Remember that you're working against an adversary that has better hearing, better sight and better smell than any animal out there. And he uses all three, all the time.

Animals kept by humans for any substantial length of time are generally ruined. They can't be reintroduced into the wild. So when we seize them, they have to be placed at an educational facility or some other type of facility that is licensed to care for them.

Some of these animals are getting more used to people, and they are not afraid to come into town. This is going to become more and more of a problem.

We love animals. If we could, we would take some. We, unfortunately, are prohibited through the state health department to do that.

Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon as they age, animals die. If they get sick or slow down, something stronger kills them. Animals aren't meant to get old. Marla lies down on her bed and undoes the tie on her bathrobe, and says our culture has made death something wrong. Old animals should be an unnatural exception. Freaks.

It's not a health food. It's not something anybody needs to eat. These animals are pulled out of the environment, transported, denied sustenance, kept frustrated with their claws locked, and boiled alive. These animals are put through felony-level cruelty, just to give some diner a moment of gastronomic pleasure.

As the epidemic comes under control it becomes more imperative that the controls remain. Restricting the movement of people and animals is crucial to the containment of the disease. We have to keep very, very vigilant.

The Humane Society of the United States is very pleased that Mississippi lawmakers have taken this important step to stop an egregious trophy hunting practice that amounts to nothing more than pay-per-view slaughter. Responsible hunters know there's no sport in shooting an animal remotely while lying in bed and wearing camouflage pajamas. We urge Governor Barbour to sign this bill into law now and snuff out this snuff film scenario.

Without guilt What is a man An animal, isn't he A wolf forgiven at his meat, A beetle innocent in his copulation.

In my opinion, he's a predator -- that he's collecting these animals. He knows that there's a violation of his sentencing agreement.

a unique animal. I see daily operations as a democracy, however at a fire situation, it becomes autocratic.

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings they are other nations caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

I saw a bank of white light, and then I saw all my beloved animals. For a moment I stepped out of my body.

Defense attorneys fear a jury will be overly sympathetic when they hear the details surrounding the death of this small and harmless animal.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Let him not travel with untrained beasts of burden, nor with , animals that are tormented by hunger or disease, or whose horns, eyes, and hoofs have been injured, or whose tails have been disfigured.

My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating -- and he knows when to stop working.