Quotes About Animals

Horses terrify me.

When I was really young, my babysitters had horses, and I started riding them.

My idea of horses is from when I grew up on a farm. They were big, and they were dumb.

I've had to put horses down on the farm before, and it's very, very sad.

Horses do sense things way before people.

I get to work with horses, be around them, you know. When you love horses as much as I do, you want to be around them. I mean, you can't beat it.

The circus was born with animals, horses at the start. This is part of our cultural heritage. It's a whole, with clowns and acrobats.

My father was a caretaker of a hacienda. It was a huge place with a lot of animals. I was actually born there, not at a hospital but at the hacienda.

I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major problem.

Family is family. I grew up in a household where all the four-legged animals were as important as the two-legged animals.

The way my parents brought me up to see the world is still absolutely key to what I am about. The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.

Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence.

What do you actually mean when you say human rights? Animals don't have rights in that sense.

There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.

Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

I think we need to be humane to all living beings and that includes our animals.

I like dogs because they are not humans.

By the time I was six, I made an important discovery that I get along much better with animals than humans.

I don't think that we really know our animals. We think we do because we're humans, and we think we can control things like that. We don't know anybody that we love. It could be a girlfriend or a cat. I think we just have to be at peace with that.

But in this case people have hundreds and hundreds of animals, they have a menagerie. You can't possibly love that many animals. So, it's more about the ego and the pride of having all of these things sort of like a car collection or a gun collection.

But what is it that happens precisely when we encounter someone we love? Do we encounter somebody, or is it animals that come to inhabit you, ideas that invade you, movements that move you, sounds that traverse you? And can these things be parted?

Four Herefords stood nearby, unmoving in the snow, finding the humans unworrying. Limited imaginations. Diondra

We gathered our things and began taking leave of camp followers who had trickled out from the city. Our animals and equipment would be their reward for faith and friendship. I spent a sad, gentle hour with a woman to whom I meant more than I suspected. We shed no tears and told one another no lies. I left her with memories and most of my pathetic fortune. She left me with a lump in my throat and a sense of loss not wholly fathomable.

All of the emotional signalling that animals use is still present in humans and registers importantly with us.