Animal Quotes

It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.

My feeling toward the animal is that he is our younger brother, and that we are our brother's keeper.

I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs and cats, for example - from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once.

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.

I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.

I think there's always going to be a problem dealing with firearms, with knives. It's the animal we are that cause the problems.

It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.