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Quotes About Animals

People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties and things like that. And if you love your animal, then you should feed them something that's not dangerous for them. There's a lot of poisonous stuff that they're putting in a lot of that food, those by-products.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
The merciful provisions of the law extend even to the lower animals, which cannot express in words their want and suffering.
~ Ellen G. White
Bandit Baxter Bear Bella Buddy Chewy and Chica Cocoa Cody Cooper Flash Gizmo Goldie Honey Jack Liberty Lucky Lucy Maggie and Max Mocha Molly Moose Muttley Noodle Oscar Patches Princess Pugsley Rascal Rocky Scout Shadow Snowball Sweetie Teddy Ziggy Zipper
~ Ellen Miles
It seems like there's something mysterious about what lives and what dies." He saw that Roo's face had gone grim, and he added, "But each time I find an animal that needs help, I help it as though I'm sure it will live.
~ Ellen Potter
Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.
~ Ellsworth Huntington
Do you have a pet?' Eugenia shook her head. 'I don't know very much about animals.' 'There's nothing much to know. You feed them; they love you.
~ Eloisa James
Cattle, horses, pigs, sheep were common farm animals in Denmark, and goats were seen. Hens, geese and ducks were also kept.
~ Else Roesdahl
Every act of courage is the work of an unbalanced man. Animals, normal by definition, are always cowardly except when they know themselves know themselves to be stronger, which is cowardice itself.
~ Emil Cioran
I told you, animals have a thing for me. It's the grown-ups I can't seem to win over.
~ Barbara Davis
Wildness in animals is a curious thing to us humans. Isn't that why people watch Animal Planet? Escape. Maybe that's why we watch. Animal behavior is elemental. It takes us back to a simpler time.
~ Barbara Delinsky
By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.
~ Barbara Holland
As long as the animals that produce the manure you put in your garden do not subsist on weeds, you can use the manure with confidence to improve your soil's structure and fertility. Also keep in mind that it's easier to control weeds than it is to grow healthy flowers and vegetables in weak, infertile soil.
~ Barbara Pleasant
A bear and a bunny are out in the forest taking a shit. The bear leans over to the bunny and says, "Do you ever have the problem of shit sticking to your fur?" "No, not really," says the bunny. So the bear grabs the bunny and wipes his ass.
~ Barry Dougherty
What do you get when you cross an owl and a rooster? A cock that stays up all night.
~ Barry Dougherty
I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.
~ Barry Lopez
Dolphins. They think they're so cute. Oh, look at me, I'm a flippy little dolphin, let me flip for you."     —Chum in Finding Nemo
~ Bart King
I would love to be working in a hospital or in a completely different realm, working with or exploring the lives of animals.
~ Nathan Chen
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
~ Alexander Hamilton
I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.
~ Morarji Desai
My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.
~ Evanna Lynch
Bolivia recently did what every country should do - banned the use of animals in circuses.
~ Jane Velez-Mitchell
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I never do the cute thing with animals; they are interesting shapes. I just use their profile. Because German shepherds are so easily recognizable, they would fall outside my purview.
~ Billy Al Bengston