Quotes About Animals

In the weeks after the flood, the Humane Society of the United States organized the biggest animal rescue in history. Hundreds of volunteers from all over the country came to New Orleans. They broke into boarded-up houses, plucked dogs and cats from rooftops and trees, and even rescued pigs and goats. Many animals were reunited with their owners. Others were sent to shelters across America to be adopted by new families.

owls, flamingos, hairy armadillos, and parrots

The sea wolves of these two islands are of various colors and of the size and thickness of a calf

By "sea wolves" Pigafetta meant the sub-Antarctic sea lion or the sea elephant

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.

We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.

Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people.

being around animals, I am always reminded that the only real moment in life is now.

In the island the gods are killed, killed like animals. And the man who kills a god becomes a god himself.

Le catene, la morte, la comune speranza, acquistavano un senso terribile e quotidiano. Ciò che prima era visto nell'aria, era stato parole, adesso afferrava alle viscere. Nelle parole c'è qualcosa d'impudico. In certi istanti avrei voluto vergognarmi. Invece tacevo. Avrei voluto scomparire come un topo. Le bestie, pensavo, non sanno quel che avviene. Invidiavo le bestie.

Also attending Saturday's festivities were Ali MacGraw`s son, filmmaker Josh Evans, and his wife, actress Charis Michelsen-Evans. "I got teary-eyed," Charis says about touring the sanctuary. "To see all the animals so happy, well, it just touches my heart." (Interview at Best Friends animal sanctuary) [2008]

Ostriches like shiny things like coins and eyeballs.

Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog ! Grrrr!

As Hamlet says, Hercules may lay about him with his club in every possible direction, but he can't prevent the cats from making a most intolerable row on the roofs of the houses, or the dogs from being shot in the hot weather if they run about the streets unmuzzled

The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is, and always will be, a wild animal.

Closely allied to the belief in these old deities, is a vast mass of curious tradition, such as that there is a spirit of every element or thing created, as for instance of every plant and mineral, and a guardian or leading spirit of all animals; or, as in the case of silkworms, two--one good and one evil.

The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry.

In the country sometimes I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

Philippa knew that Eliza was unusual: Animals worshipped her. She attracted them even though she dressed like a heretic. Even that dog of the Cohens had followed her out of the woods. The girl must give off some smell or vibration that attracted the beasts to her. But that she should then turn around and follow them , taking care of distemper or peering into hooves and mouths and reaching into unthinkable places for difficult births?

Ba sighed and took out another candle for the lantern. The light from the lamp kept away the forest animals but it could do nothing for Ma's fury. Her resentment seemed to darken with the fading moon.