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Quotes About Animals

It's wonderful, what you do," she said to Jennifer as she stood by the gate to the yard, with Che on a leash beside her. "I think if I tried to foster dogs I'd wind up keeping all of them.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
To A Squirrel At Kyle-Na-No Come play with me; Why should you run Through the shaking tree As though I'd a gun To strike you dead? When all I would do Is to scratch your head And let you go.
~ W.B. Yeats
Women are crazy about pets. They're just crazy. Pets have nothing to do with it.
~ W.C. Fields
The sense of smell, which seems to diminish as we grow older, until it becomes something scarcely worthy of being called a sense, is nearly as keen in little children as in the inferior animals, and, when they live with nature, contributes as much to their pleasure as sight or hearing.
~ Unknown
As for me, I am proud of my close kinship with other animals. I take a jealous pride in my Simian ancestry. I like to think that I was once a magnificent hairy fellow living in the trees and that my frame has come down through geological time via sea jelly and worms and Amphioxus, Fish, Dinosaurs, and Apes. Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden?
~ Unknown
Oh, but I like my geese. Like cats, they can't be told what to do, and like dogs, they're loyal, and like people, they talk every chance they get.
~ Shannon Hale
The fact that I seem to prefer seals over any other animal brides is something I hadn't actually realized until this moment. Perhaps it's because there's a lot of very cool folklore about it.
~ Delia Sherman
Normally I play dads, good guys, and little animals.
~ Frank Welker
Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.
~ Milan Kundera
They arouse in themselves a wild vicious hunger more like animals than men. I did not know that war was like this.
~ Philippa Gregory
A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
~ Plato
If you harm a horse do you make him better or worse? Worse.
~ Plato
Many animals, I replied, furnish examples of them; our friend the dog is a very good one: you know that well-bred dogs are perfectly gentle to their familiars and acquaintances, and the reverse to strangers. Yes, I know. Then there is nothing impossible or out of the order of nature in our finding a guardian who has a similar combination of qualities? Certainly
~ Plato
Cronos, then lord of the world, knew that no mortal nature could endure the temptations of power, and therefore he appointed demons or demi-gods, who are of a superior race, to have dominion over man, as man has dominion over the animals
~ Plato
Vai de cel ce viseaz?: momentul conÅŸtient care însoÅ£eÅŸte trezirea este cea mai grea suferin??. Dar nu ni se întâmpl? des ÅŸi nici visele nu sunt lungi: nu suntem decât niÅŸte animale obosite.
~ Primo Levi
Have you heard the saying, Skeaös? 'Cats look down upon Man, and dogs look up, but only pigs dare look Man straight in the eye.'" "Y-yes, God-of-Men." "Pretend that you are a pig, Skeaös." What
~ R. Scott Bakker
And in the corner … piled up in the corner, I saw animal heads. Even in the dim light, I could see them so clearly. Piled on top of each other. Rabbit heads, squirrel heads, a couple of raccoon heads, eyes staring blankly, glassily at me. "NOOOO!" I screamed without realizing it. What kind of creature lives here? What kind of beast builds its own hut and keeps dead animals inside it?
~ R.L. Stine
I can't simply adopt strays because they seem winsome.
~ Rachel Caine
I decided to give myself a Christmas present this year. I decided to spend the day only speaking to animals (real and stuffed), select humans as necessary so long as they weren't my parents or Langston, and a Snarl in a red Moleskine notebook—if he returned it to me.
~ Rachel Cohn
I know how to handle animals taking unauthorized expeditions.
~ Rachel Cohn
With cooking, plants and animals became the raw materials for food, not food itself.
~ Unknown
Bilim adamlar? yüzy?llar boyunca yaln?zca insanlar?n güldüÄŸünü iddia etmiÅŸtir ve hayvanlar da bu yan?lg?ya kat?la kat?la gülmüÅŸtür. Hayvanlar yaln?zca iki ÅŸeyi yapamaz: Kendilerine yalan söylemek ve bir banka kurmak; bunlar?n d???nda her ÅŸeyi yapmaya yetenekleri vard?r.
~ Rafik Schami
Mother Nature wasn't really motherly. Mom said nature was more like a bipolar aunt who treated you kindly most of the time but, now and then, could be a real witch, conjuring killer storms and vicious animals, like big toothy mountain lions that, if given a menu, would always order tender children.
~ Dean Koontz
I often resorted: buckets, brooms, garden rakes, Granny Smith apples, cats that when thrown will reliably take out their fury not on the thrower but instead on the person at whom they're thrown. I didn't like throwing cats or animals of any kind, as far as that goes, but every once in a while, in a life-and-death situation, there was nothing to be done but grab a cat and throw it, or an angry ferret.
~ Dean Koontz