Quotes About Animals

My fondest memories are of watching lambs being delivered.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.

We must make the masses understand that we have a responsibility to care for our animals and that when things get messed up, it's usually because human hands have caused it.

We like horses and we like dogs and we like to be in the midst of agriculture.

The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all.

I have two mini dachshunds, Lola and Charlie.

Cuando los animales del bosque caen heridos, siempre encuentran un lugar para tenderse y descansar totalmente durante muchos días. No piensan en comer ni en ninguna otra cosa. Se limitan a descansar y logran de ese modo la curación que tanto necesitan.

Readers who have owned animals will appreciate how difficult it would be to train a dog to play exclusively in his own yard, to fetch his sweater whenever he sees it is raining outside, or to be generous in sharing his dog biscuits with other dogs. Yet these same people would not even question the feasibility of trying to use reward and punishment to teach their children the same behaviors.

I shan't forget you, Jude,' he said, smiling, as the cart moved off. 'Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can.

be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can.

pig is not like other animals. There is a spark of intelligence and a terrible practicality in pigs.

These are probably dogs

According to the Miltonic account, the order in which animals should have made their appearance in the stratified rocks would be this: Fishes, including the great whales, and birds; after them, all varieties of terrestrial animals except birds. Nothing could be further from the facts as we find them;

Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man: so that man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Such is the economy of nature, that no instance can be produced of her having permitted any one race of her animals to become extinct; of her having formed any link in her great work so weak as to be broken.

You see how many whips and things there are here. Our horses are very, very naughty.

There was a time—until very recently in the scheme of things—when there were no wild animals, because every animal was wild; and humans were few. Animals, and animal presence over us and around us. Over every horizon, animals. Their skins clothing our skins, their fats in our lamps, their bladders to carry water, meat when we could get it.

The most important component of the system of Reiki at any level is one's own daily personal practice, meditation and self-healing. This is the foundation from which all healing experiences with the animals will grow.

They walked down the corridor, the walls of which were covered with baby animals and their mothers or fathers. They passed a big tiger with dark stripes, guarding its tiny cub; it reminded her of the man next to her.

Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, wrote, "Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude toward those who are at its mercy: animals." Fellow humans, we're failing that test.

A princess never refers to anything as a bitch unless it has eight teats

Surely even the monsters would respect another animal's need to defend itself.

Il poter cambiare la nostra natura, non è esattamente questo ciò che ci distingue dagli animali?