Quotes About Animals

They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had animals in it. They failed to mention that this was when God massacred all of humanity.

We looked at each other, for a long strange moment that I've never forgotten, actually, like two animals meeting at twilight, during which some clear, personable spark seemed to fly up through his eyes and I saw the creature he really was—and he, I believe, saw me. For an instant we were wired together and humming, like two engines on the same circuit.

I remember a story I read once, a soldier, was it at Shiloh? He was talking to me but not with his whole attention. Gettysburg? a soldier so mad with shock that he started burying birds and squirrels on the battlefield. You had lot of little things killed too, in the crossfire, little animals. Many tiny graves. p128

God, you're so hot, Irena. When are we going to get together, have ourselves a litter of little kiggens?" "On the first of never, Andy. And they wouldn't be kiggens. They'd be pities.

The very animals whose smell is most offensive to us have no idea that they are offensive, and are not offensive to one another.

It is an emotional issue which ultimately revolves around the question of whether other animals affectively experience the world and themselves in a way similar to humans—as subjectively feeling, sentient creatures. The topic of subjectivity is one that modern neuroscience has avoided. It is generally agreed that there are no direct, objective ways to measure the subjectivity of other animals, nor indeed of other humans.

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. -Colette

Dogs are miracles with paws. -Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy

If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.

Unlike animals, who react to stimuli but cannot think of rational explanations for them, humans have the ability to change their behavior by understanding causes, circumstances, and solutions.

If we believe that we are just animals, without immortal souls, we are already but one step removed from pod people.

Your pony, he said as he stomped toward me. "I'm the farrier who is here to fix your pony." "I thought you were a Hells Angel," I said. "I used to be," he replied. "But fighting all the time and being really drunk and nasty got boring. So now I just take care of animals.

The original title for The Lion King was King of the Jungle - until someone pointed out that Lions don't actually live in the jungle.

President Theodore Roosevelt (after whom the Teddy Bear is named) was particularly fond of animals, having five guinea pigs called Dr. Johnson, Bishop Doane, Fighting Bob Evans, Admiral Dewey, and Father O'Grady. He also owned a small bear called Jonathan Edwards, a lizard by the name of Bill, Baron Spreckle (a hen), a badger called Josiah, Eli Yale the parrot and - brilliantly - a snake known to his family as Emily Spinach.

one of the cutest facts you will ever read, sea otters hold each other's paws whilst they are asleep so they don't drift apart from each other. Elephant shrews are more closely related to elephants than they are shrews.

having five guinea pigs called Dr. Johnson, Bishop Doane, Fighting Bob Evans, Admiral Dewey, and Father O'Grady. He also owned a small bear called Jonathan Edwards, a lizard by the name of Bill, Baron Spreckle (a hen), a badger called Josiah, Eli Yale the parrot

Berlin's Zoologischer Gardens is the largest zoo in the world, containing 14,000 animals of 1,500 different species.

your dog has a sense of smell around one hundred thousand times better than yours!

If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear and pain- be excluded from our moral consideration?

A trapdoor had slammed open at the edge of the arena, followed by another and another. Slowly, reluctantly, animals were forced through the gaps. Lions, tigers, bears. "Oh my!" said the Doctor, as the trapdoors slammed shut again.

Elsa's joke Where do baby apes sleep? In apricots!

Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.

She'd always found animals easier to understand than humans; they were so refreshingly straightforward and real.

Schopenhauer once said: the life of one dog may be worth more than the lives of many human beings.