Quotes About Animals

With human beings, a natural death was a death with dignity. But animals were innocents, and as their stewards, people owed them mercy.

where the animals that wake and live in the absence of the sun are going about their business more peacefully than does humanity. There

Do you know the fable titled 'The Vain Wolf and the Lion'?

Fantasy is a doorway to superstition. Talking animals, humble pig, a clever spider - A corrupting influence...the first step in a life of unreason and irrational beliefs... It would've been better if they hit us. Much better. Bruises, broken bones - that's the kind of thing gets the attention of Child Protective Services.

the animals on Jacob's Ladder are likely to be sensitive

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.

Libby has always thought animals live in the moment, their past dismissed as irrelevant

Animals had returned to what was left of the forest...clusters of orange butterflies exploded off the blackish purple piles of bear sign and winked and fluttered magically like leaves without trees. More bears than people traveled the muddy road, leaving tracks straight up and down the middle of it...

Human beings want to be happy, and they have a right to want to be. Far from being a selfish or ignoble goal, this is one of the distinguishing features of human beings. To the extent that animals can be said to want anything, what they want is to avoid pain and to be sated, but not to be happy.

Do ye want me to be a horse, a bear, or a dog?" "A hedgehog." "A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded. No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully," I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought.

Mama says the Beardsleys follow her around like dogs, but they don't. They follow her like tame wolves. I thought Ian said it wasn't possible to tame wolves. It isn't.

I have one pug and one Czechoslovakian dog called Prazsky krysarik.

I have three dogs and a cockatoo.

Sometimes, people will just never love dogs.

I'd rather talk about dogs than about me.

I love all dogs; I really do.

I'm really scared of small dogs, dogs in general I guess.

I think I had about 14 dogs in my house at one point.

I don't actually like dogs smelling of anything other than natural dogs.

I take very good care of all my dogs and I treat them all the same.

Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human.

I dreamed of growing up and becoming a zookeeper.

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.

I'll sleep on my questions in a deep intoxication. I'll worship animals in the night, I'll lay violent hands on the holiest icons, I'll clutch at all lies, I'll grow bestial in my dreams and will allow myself to be slaughtered like a beast.