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Quotes About Creatures

I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for '[intelligent] design.' If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't working very well!
~ Irven Devore
The energy requirements for interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across the vast depths of space would do so only in order to play games with us over a period of decades. If they want to make contact, they would make contact; if not, they would save their energy and go elsewhere.
~ Isaac Asimov
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.
~ Isaac Newton
The Magical Zoo
~ Unknown
All Creatures Great And Small' is one of the most popular British television series ever made. When it was broadcast in the Seventies and Eighties viewing figures regularly soared above 20million.
~ Carol Drinkwater
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.
~ Emma Orczy
We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.
~ Steven Pinker
After dealing with so much dark energy and investigating violent people for my job, I value creatures with pure souls - animals, especially dogs. I believe a higher power/god created these creatures to give us balance from people who can be truly evil. I am an active voice and supporter against animal cruelty.
~ Zak Bagans
Viruses have to live somewhere. They can only replicate in living creatures. So, when the Ebola virus disappears between outbreaks, it has to be living in some reservoir host, presumably some species of animal.
~ David Quammen
Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.
~ William Gurnall
About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.
~ John Woolman
I have come to discover men are such prideful creatures." "And we're not?" "Of course we are. But we are more capable of bending. Men tend to break.
~ Lorraine Heath
In my world travels, I saw a good many varieties of butterflies. They're incredibly delicate creatures, but they shouldn't be underestimated. Observing them as I did, I learned a valuable lesson. Sometimes if you surround a butterfly too closely, it couldn't fly if it wanted to.
~ Lorraine Heath
Dr. Warfield distinguishes the two as follows: "The one is addressed generally to all intelligent creatures, and is therefore accessible to all men; the other is addressed to a special class of sinners, to whom God would make known His salvation. The one has in view to meet and supply the natural need of creatures for knowledge of their God; the other to rescue broken and deformed sinners from their sin and its consequences."[
~ Louis Berkhof
Above them, a riot of stars formed horses and birds and magical creatures." Chapter 9 · Page 80 · Location 1434
~ Louise Penny
And many kinds of creatures must have died, Unable to plant out new sprouts of life. For whatever you see that lives and breathes and thrives Has been, from the very beginning, guarded, saved By it's trickery for its swiftness or brute strength.
~ Unknown
believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.
~ Jodi Picoult
It is said, once a wise man from the far North told me; it is said that there are in certain parts of Scandinavia cities within cities like there are circles within circles; existent yet invisible. And those cities are inhabited by creatures more terrible than imagination can create : man-shaped but man-devouring, as black and as silent as the night they prowl in.
~ Unknown
There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others.
~ John Adams
God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.
~ Johann Sebastian Bach
Men are really strange creatures when their emotions get stirred up.
~ Diana Palmer
I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Europe enjoyed a heritage of fairy tales alive with talking animals--some almost real, other deliciously bogus-- to spark child's fantasies and gallop grownups to the cherished haunts of childhood. It pleased Antonina that her zoo offered on orient of fabled creatures, where book pages sprang alive and people could parley with ferocious animals.
~ Diane Ackerman