Quotes About Animals

Animals don't have anyone to protect them. If we don't stand up, the people who are harming animals will never get stopped.

One of my obsession is animals. I'm into dog rescues. It drives me crazy when people go to pet stores and buy dogs. There are so many dogs that need a good home. And this sounds crazy, but I really believe they know what is happening and are appreciative, and I just think they make for the best pets.

Pet stores just sell their animals.

My mum loves cats so I took her to see the lion cubs which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn't scared at all and went straight over and kissed one on the mouth! She thought they were just like her pets at home.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.

I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.

What all these stories show is that no law of nature forces native animals to prefer their natural foods, or even to recognize them. Some do (say koalas on gum leaves) but many don't. A currawong guzzling grapes might not look quite natural to us, but the bird doesn't see it that way. By nature it is an opportunist. For our native wildlife, the foreign plants and animals flourishing in Australia today afford untold opportunities too good to pass by.

He works twelve hours a day, with some of the world's stupidest animals, placed in an environment that is foreign to their native ground. He might as well be raising chickens in Rockefeller Center.

Most breakthroughs in performance (and appearance) enhancement start with animals and go through the following adoption curve: Racehorses ? AIDS patients (because of muscle wasting) and bodybuilders ? elite athletes ? rich people ? the rest of us The last jump from the rich to the general public can take 10–20 years, if it happens at all. It often doesn't. I

When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do? In my photos on my phone, I made an album called "calm." I have photos and videos of my animals, funny pictures, memes, inspiring quotes, articles about neurology, gratitude lists, all sorts of things that make me smile and reconnect to my source. It's like my own personal digital Zen museum.

Words separate you from the rest of creation, making you more like God than like animals.

I could really use a corporate sponsor. People think that because you're in the movies, you're rich. I have allocated all my resources to Shambala so the animals will always be safe.

One of the good things about cats is that, unlike dogs, they don't come up to you in the street and try to have sex with your leg.

I grew up in a family of filmmakers, so I always wanted to make films about animals, especially comical films. Something about animals amuses me. And they have a great mystery. It's the same mystique some people might feel looking at the stars or the ocean.

If you're going to make a lot of films about a particular group of animals, you might as well pick one that's fairly common. And octopus are: they live in all the oceans. They also live deep. And I can't say octopus are responsible for my really strong interest in getting in subs and going deep, but whatever the case, I like that.

I have always loved animals and groomed friends' horses as a child. I think I may have even ridden the odd seaside donkey in my early years.

I really need to work. People think that I'm no longer interested in acting and only interested in working with the animals. Obviously I have given that impression, but it is not how I feel. I think I'm a good actor. I think I look OK. I don't understand why I'm not working all the time.

One day I'd love a house in the country, with some chickens, dogs and kids.

When a man is kind to dumb animals, I always say he has got some good in him.

In appearance he was well-bred amiability personified, but one cannot judge by people's faces. It is their bodies which show them as the kind of animals they are.

She gazed at Berry with stolid affection, like a cow inspecting a turnip.

I've married a friggin horse. And he bites.

I've found that the way a person feels about cats—and the way they feel about him or her in return—is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character.