Quotes About Animals

Es fama entre los etíopes que los monos deliberadamente no hablan para que no los obliguen a trabajar

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

A party for Me?" thought Pooh to himself. " How grand!" And he began to wonder if all the other ani- mals would know that it was a special Pooh Party, and if Christopher Robin had told them about The Floating Bear and The Brain 0/ Pooh and all the wonderful ships he had invented and sailed on, and he began to think how awful it would be if everybody had forgotten 149

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

As for its original meaning in the evolution of us, I no longer know if it is true. As we have seen, in technology, in sex, in fashion, we are different from other animals. But the implication that the differences between us and them are determined by our relative position on a line is questionable.

The problem of cat versus bird is as old as time. If we attempt to resolve it by legislation who knows but what we may be called upon to take sides as well in the age old problems of dog versus cat, bird versus bird, and even bird versus worm…. The State of Illinois and its local governing bodies already have enough to do without trying to control feline delinquency.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things.

I have a secret passion for horse riding. I haven't done it for ages, but I used to have a horse. I love it; it's one of my favourite things.

When you check out at PetSmart, the cashier usually asks you if you want to donate money to PetSmart charities to help save the animals. Usually, we're so busy we don't even pay attention.

Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.

For me personally, snorkeling in a cove in Hawaii, floating along, and looking at all the animals and the colors - I mean, that's pretty peaceful.

I believe in building a peaceful world that is also a safe place for animals.

People are so difficult. Give me an elephant any day.

Early AI was mainly based on logic. You're trying to make computers that reason like people. The second route is from biology: You're trying to make computers that can perceive and act and adapt like animals.

More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.

Aliter catuli longe olent, aliter sues. ("Puppies and pigs have a very different smell.")

Animals are not supposed to have the power to reason and therefore don't care whether there is life after death. But imagine animals trying to cheer themselves up in the same way that our own ancestors did when faced with death, by believing that there is life after death. How would they resolve the problem that in the afterlife they might once more be eaten by man?

But all habitude is produced through imitation and similitude; and hence temples imitate the heavens, but altars the earth; statues resemble life, and on this account they are similar to animals; and prayers imitate that which is intellectual; but characters, superior ineffable powers; herbs and stones resemble matter; and animals which are sacrificed, the irrational life of our souls.

The dog and the wolf can't agree for long.

Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched.