Quotes About Animals

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

Giraffes are fairytale animals, almost heraldic - as if from the land of fables. They have extremely beautiful faces, huge eyes, very sensitive nostrils and oh, blue tongues!

I want to live a normal life - drive my kids to school, have tons of animals running around, be barefoot and pregnant. I want all that.

Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.

I guess you could say I'm a closeted animal person, because a lot of my life I did it in secrecy. I was always fascinated with exotic animals, particularly reptiles, from the age of 6 when I got a pet tortoise.

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

We had a small farm growing up. It was my grandfather's farm, and we didn't torture the animals, and we didn't feed them stuff we wouldn't eat.

I've got a house full of taxidermy. It's like a museum. I have about 200 pieces in total, all ethically sourced.

Edison's efforts then took a turn for the grisly. He began holding weekend demonstrations of the hazards of Tesla's work by electrocuting animals found roaming the streets. He directed two technicians to do the same, including the execution of cattle and

They say we are creatures raised by God above the animals but any man that has lived knows that's damned lies.

The greatest gifts given to man are his ability to think in terms of abstraction and his ability of transcendence. From these he derives his imaginative power. These are part of his major distinction from the lower animals. Although we need our moments of hearts and flowers, we need also to see the other side of the universal fence.

The only person who killed almost as many animals as the Prince was his good friend Gaston

we are animals—unusual animals, but animals nevertheless. Not only that, but we are pack or tribal animals, like the other apes. For a tribal animal one of the worst pains is banishment, or separation from the tribe. And one of the greatest pleasures is acceptance by the tribe.

La lista de mis miedos (en desorden): A la muerte. A los aviones. A la locura. A las enfermedades. A las amputaciones. A los barcos. A la velocidad. A la altura. Al mar. A los tiburones, osos, serpientes, arañas, perros desconocidos. A los desconocidos. A las ciudades, barrios, calles desconocidas. A los suburbios. A los ascensores. A la miseria. A las operaciones médicas, a las operaciones financieras. A las armas. A los dentistas.

Oh, but I like my geese. Like cats, they can't be told what to do, and like dogs, they're loyal, and like people, they talk every chance they get.

and with my last thought I felt some real sympathy for those poor chickens.

first thing is that I love you. And the second thing is that as much as I honor your former profession, I don't think your geese care much for your betrothed and I hope they hadn't any plans on sharing our bed.

But this morning, so many of her friends were in need. As soon as she finished helping with some sibling bonding at the rabbit warren, a trio of squirrels needed an arbitrator in the matter of whose cache of acorns was buried under a leaf. Then there was even more bunny drama, followed by a deer who couldn't find her favorite backscratching tree. Every time Ashlynn was about to go home to pack, yet another animal emergency fell into her lap.

All Greencloaks spoke to their spirit animals, but Maya was holding what appeared to be an intense one-sided conversation with an amphibian!

Ethical vegetarians eat only plant-based food in order to show compassion toward animals and other humans and to benefit the planet.

Some people may find bonding with pets easier than with humans because animals are largely indifferent to their owners' material possessions, social status, well-being, and interpersonal skills.

At least once a month Choo Choo managed to get lost. There were constant reports about animals who could find their way home across hundreds, sometimes even thousands, of miles. Choo Choo continued to get lost within the block on which it lived. It was his opinion that Choo Choo had the homing instincts of a fart—once having escaped, it would lose its point of origin, yet never get far enough away to ignore.

Everything was female. The books in the library scene were all by female authors. The photographs and art objects were all female. Even the animals—the monkeys, the dogs, the horses—were female. I'm not sure if audiences were aware of that, but there wasn't a single male represented in the entire film, although nine-tenths of the dialogue centered around them.

Horses know this more than most: The greatest curse of any animal is to be worth money to men.