Quotes About Animals

He was also firmly and utterly opposed to all and any forms of cruelty to any animals whatsoever except geese.

Besides, animals don't even have time. Only humans have time. It's what makes us different.

The third board popped off. The opening was now big enough to squeeze through. The dogs in town were barking hysterically.

animals surely would be in Heaven, otherwise Heaven would not be Heaven.

at least the higher animals have souls, and they are inevitably saved. Only man, who has the capacity for good and evil, can be damned.

They use the label "anthropomorphization" as a cover, because they're scared that maybe we're all just animals after all!

This idea that animals in nature are uncorrupt and peaceful, while man is corrupt, violent, and unnatural, is sheer, unadulterated, unmitigated, onehundred-percent crap.

He's gone down to the farm. Looking at pigs and things always soothes him if he's been upset.

Over time I learned that objects and animals are true friends. In the forest I was surrounded by trees, bushes, birds, and small animals. I was not afraid of them. I was sure that they would do nothing harmful to me. I became familiar with cows and with horses, and they provided me with a warmth that has remained with me to this very day. Sometimes it seemed to me that what saved me were the animals I encountered along the way, not the human beings.

There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now that's formalism.

marveled at how two souls - two completely different species - could make each other so happy. If you were kind to animals, they repaid that kindness a thousandfold. People disappointed; animals never did.

Cruelty to prisoners the Nazis could abide. But not cruelty to animals.

A typical dog has 20/75 vision,

Most kids grow up wanting to work with animals. There's a good reason for that. The alternative is to work with humans.

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

Horses have really distinct personalities, and they're magical in many ways.

Alpacas are very endearing, and they all have very different personalities.

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

If you love animals and you care for them... don't wear them, because they have feelings and personalities just like humans do.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

Dogs are my favorite people.

I have always been an animal lover and I had pet dogs at home. On the day of Diwali, they would be so disturbed and scared that they would hide in a corner and would not come out. I had decided then that I would stop buying crackers on Diwali.

I love pet animals, but I don't have any.

I'm a dog person, but I don't have a pet.