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Quotes About Animals

I was always interested in animals, but when I was little, animal behavior was still a new science. It was available to become a veterinarian, it was available to study biology, but not specifically animal behavior. In the '60s, Jane Goodall was the founder of this new science.
~ Isabella Rossellini
Once you have an animal, you have to commit to it. They need a sense of freedom, but, of course, they must have some boundaries. I am against hitting them though; just send the vibe and that will do it.
~ Connie Stevens
Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
~ Ignatius of Antioch
Rottweilers are victims of a stereotype. They're not that bad.
~ Ving Rhames
I love animals and their behavior. I watch cat videos all the time.
~ David Lowery
I think that now that we are seeing multimedia types of productions with videos and pictures and human beings performing the acts that animals used to perform, such as in Cirque du Soleil and other traveling troops, there is no need to parade animals around anymore in cages for personal gratification.
~ Montel Williams
When I see someone wearing fur, I just want to sit them down in front of one of PETA's videos and show them just how badly animals suffer for this supposed fabric that no one needs.
~ Tim Howard
I must say that I am rather partial to funny dog videos.
~ Dominic Holland
From the physical point of view, a man is nothing more than a system of cells, or from the mental point of view, than a system of representations; in either case, he differs only in degree from animals.
~ Émile Durkheim
Wyndham Lewis is basically a pessimist, thinking of human beings as doomed animals or determinist machines. His theory of satire is based on this view, and he finds plenty of evidence to support it in contemporary practice.
~ Louis MacNeice
I'm used to wild creatures who don't like to be approached from behind." He shot her a baleful glance. "How fortunate that your experience with animals has turned out to be such good preparation for marriage to me.
~ Lisa Kleypas
She had a vague notion that dogs preferred football and politics. This
~ Unknown
One animal says to another animal it is not safe you must not return I love you. Another says to her sister animal when you go you will never return then she dies in a camp. Another is a child and she stops living because of deceit. The animals in their velvety dressing gowns have thought bubbles. They break the incest taboo during a long cruel close-up and you can't help but watch.
~ Unknown
If the Navy could possibly have used dogs or ducks or monkeys, certain of the older admirals would probably have greatly preferred them to women," Gildersleeve acidly remarked later. The
~ Liza Mundy
He looked from His heavens and saw it was good, the toes and the crows all looked like they should. The bunny was quick, the finch bright as a daisy, the owl flew at night, and the tortoise was lazy.
~ Lois Greiman
She thought about the dolphins, the warm smells of the island, and the animals that lived there. She realized that all of this was what made the Chincoteague ponies special. It wasn't just that they were horses, although that in itself would have been enough. But the ponies were even more. They were the sun, the sand, the untamed beauty of nature, all rolled into one. And they were a legend in themselves.
~ Unknown
No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkenness — or so good as drink.
~ Unknown
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
~ Unknown
Coyotes began yipping, their chorus of cries echoing into the distant Marble mountains.
~ Unknown
An injured dog, a sick kitten, a horse in labor, it didn't matter... Dell gave his heart and soul, and in less time than it took humans to shake hands, an animal would become part of Dell's pack for life.
~ Jill Shalvis
En los últimos veinte años se han reportado al menos diez patógenos que incrementan el peso en humanos y animales, incluyendo virus, bacterias y microflora en los intestinos.
~ Jillian Michaels
Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three hundred million, total population. That breaks down to about one person in three hundred and twenty-five vanishing. Every year.... Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators.
~ Jim Butcher
Let's sum up: an unknown number of enemies with unknown capabilities, supported by a gang of madmen, packs of attack animals, and superhumanly intelligent pocket change.
~ Unknown
Animals spend a lot of time being still so when we do they lose their logical mistrust of us.
~ Jim Harrison