Animal Quotes

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.

We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

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

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.

Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home.

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth.

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.

I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defence, should one think of killing any animal.

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.

Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.

I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn.

I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within.

Even if you buy a fur glove with the little trim, and you think 'Oh, my God, it's just a little trim,' that animal got clubbed.