Quotes on Animals

Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.

Author: Malin Akerman

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Author: Aristotle

Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.

Author: Bea Arthur

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.

Author: David Attenborough

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Author: W. Auden

If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move.

Author: Antonio Banderas

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

Author: Henry Bergh

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

Author: George Berkeley

I accredit animals for keeping me going when times were bad.

Author: Kelly Bishop

The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

Author: Linda Blair

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

Author: Taylor Caldwell

I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them.

Author: Tracy Chapman

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

Author: Malcolm Chazal

They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness.

Author: Jim Cole

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

Author: Samuel Coleridge

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

Author: Jacques Cousteau

The things that are really important to me are my man, my animals and my books. I don't need anything else.

Author: Mary Crosby

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Author: Charles Darwin

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.

Author: Morarji Desai

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.

Author: Jared Diamond

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

Author: Diogenes

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

Author: Walt Disney

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

Author: Isadora Duncan

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

Author: Loren Eiseley

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Author: George Eliot

Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors.

Author: Shannon Elizabeth

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.

Author: Black Elk

I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where they put down thousands upon thousands of animals every day.

Author: Will Estes

One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it.

Author: Faith Ford

I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.

Author: Jim Fowler

Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans.

Author: Jim Fowler

When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.

Author: Matthew Fox

Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

Author: Gary Francione

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

Author: John Gay

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

Author: Walter Gilbert

Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy.

Author: Kenneth Grahame

Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.

Author: Kenneth Grahame

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.

Author: Kenneth Grahame

Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.

Author: Temple Grandin

As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment.

Author: Temple Grandin

Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.

Author: Asa Gray

It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.

Author: Asa Gray

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.

Author: Asa Gray

Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the most valuable plants of every description.

Author: George Grey

Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.

Author: Jack Hanna

Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.

Author: Marvin Harris

I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.

Author: Edith Head

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

Author: Carolyn Heilbrun

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

Author: Keith Henson

First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.

Author: Paris Hilton

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

Author: Edward Hoagland

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

Author: Russell Hoban

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

Author: Eric Hoffer

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

Author: Roy Horn

Most animals are built to withstand one bad year.

Author: John Hunter

The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals.

Author: Ellsworth Huntington

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Author: Henrik Ibsen

The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.

Author: Steve Irwin

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.

Author: Bruce Jackson

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.

Author: Michael Jackson

If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.

Author: Allison Janney

Basically, the reason I'm vegan is because when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I began to understand that we don't need to contribute to the killing and exploitation of animals to feed our bodies correctly.

Author: Daniel Johns

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

Author: Chuck Jones

Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.

Author: Chuck Jones

I have always loved animals since I was very young.

Author: Nafisa Joseph

The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.

Author: Fanny Kemble

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

Author: Eartha Kitt

Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.

Author: Louis Leakey

I'm afraid of animals.

Author: Joanna Levesque

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Author: Georg Lichtenberg

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Author: Mario Llosa

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them.

Author: Marie Louise

I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.

Author: Ali MacGraw

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Author: Thomas Mann

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

Author: Orison Marden

I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.

Author: Kent McCord

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

Author: Terence McKenna

The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There's no point in complaining about them, any more than complaining that lions might eat you.

Author: David Mellor

So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper.

Author: Maria Menounos

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

Author: Rebecca Miller

I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.

Author: Story Musgrave

Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

Author: Bebe Neuwirth

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today.

Author: Charles Nicole

Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated.

Author: Charles Nicole

For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here.

Author: Lennart Nilsson

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

Author: Marvin Olasky

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

Author: George Orwell

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

Author: George Orwell

I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it's horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it.

Author: Kelly Osbourne

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

Author: William Osler

Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.

Author: Heinz Pagels

The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.

Author: Dick Patten

I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals are so nice and so good and so sweet and intelligent. It's a crime not to help them.

Author: Dick Patten

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

Author: Thomas Peacock

Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

Author: Bernadette Peters

Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think.

Author: Daniel Pinkwater

Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.

Author: John Podhoretz

Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat.

Author: Michael Pollan

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.

Author: Alan Price

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

Author: Ayn Rand

The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.

Author: James Randi

When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?

Author: Jeremy Rifkin

The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals.

Author: Eric Roberts

We consider all our animals to be our kids.

Author: Eric Roberts

You're a good example of why some animals eat their young.

Author: Jim Samuels

Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.

Author: Compay Segundo

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

Author: Haile Selassie

The only animals that we test on are the two of us and our kids.

Author: Connie Sellecca

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Author: George Shaw

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

Author: George Shaw

Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to.

Author: Mimi Sheraton

The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.

Author: Grace Slick

If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?

Author: Tom Snyder

It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.

Author: Julius Streicher

Animals are thinking, feeling creatures. They're sensitive.

Author: Loretta Swit

Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.

Author: Edward Thorndike

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.

Author: James Thurber

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

Author: Tina Turner

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Author: Paul Valery

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.

Author: Don Vliet

I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

Author: Don Vliet

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

Author: Don Vliet

I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together.

Author: M. Walsh

I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.

Author: Ulrich Walter

I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.

Author: Julie Walters

I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.

Author: Mary Wesley

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

Author: Jessamyn West

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.

Author: Laura Wilder

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

Author: Thornton Wilder

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

Author: Robert Wilson

The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day.

Author: Marie Windsor

The cat who chases two mice catches neither.

Author: Joanna Smith

Strive to be the person your dog thinks you are.

Author: Sarah Taylor

All you need is love… and a cat.

Author: Jennifer Lopez

Don't underestimate the healing power of venting to your dog.

Author: Emily Thompson

If cats could talk, they wouldn't.

Author: Nan Porter

Happiness is when your cat sits on your lap and purrs for no reason. Because sometimes, there doesn't need to be a reason for joy.

Author: Maya Smith

People who say money can't buy happiness clearly haven't shopped at a dog shelter.

Author: Sarah Johnson

Some people love dogs more than people, and honestly, who can blame them?

Author: Bob Barker