Animal Quotes

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.

Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

I've had a love of animals from birth. I love getting to know other species. We should all be aware that there is not one thing we can give a wild animal in captivity that they need.

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.

Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.

The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.

We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?

No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'

If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.

Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that.

But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.

Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.

My father was not a political animal.

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.