Quotes About Animals

My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.

I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys.

Everything that I've done in my life was to lead me to my work with the animals.

They say the number on rule in showbusiness is not to work with animals. I guess I'm above the rules because I put up with that for seven years.

The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.

There are so many dogs out there that need homes, and so many awesome dogs who are stuck in shelters.

I studied what the Germans call the Naturwissenschaften, the natural sciences. Everything from biology to geology. How the clouds are formed, how the animals live, and what makes the rocks. So I know about nature. Period.

I studied marine biology, even taught marine science before I got into animation, so I had an interest in that field and those animals.

It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.

It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.

I've learned more about animals just by reading to my kid than I ever did studying.

I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.

Cockfighting was illegal in Oklahoma until 1963, when a judge ruled that chickens are not animals and therefore unprotected by anticruelty laws.

In nature, fruit is available mainly in the fall. Wild animals such as bears eat fruit in the fall in order to build up their fat.

There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.

How are you going to build a wall across rivers? Across desert sand and mountains? What about the devastation to the environment? What about the wild animals that live in or around the border, whose migration patterns have already been disrupted and will die of thirst and starvation? The plan is lunacy.

Dominance is not leadership. From animals, Williams said, people could learn about taking "authority without being a bully.

This sort of thing happens with leopards, which is why Dr. MacElroy has big cats in the first place. It started with Rocky, a lion who was brought to him with virtually every bone in his body broken—"pathological fractures caused by rickets." There was a bobcat with a similar story, and Cinder's mother was another. Dr. MacElroy fixes them up, and that's how they become his pets.

Displacement and discreteness are two fundamental properties that distinguish human language from the communication systems of birds and other animals.

Sometimes all I have are words and to write them means they are no longer prayers but are now animals. Other people can hunt them.

Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.