Quotes About Animal

I don't wear fur and I understand their cause. I am the biggest animal lover in the world. I have four dogs and two horses, and I have rescued animals all my life.

I've always been obsessed with things that are half animal and half human - like mermaids and Minotaurs - because they are trapped in an animal body. And I felt trapped in my own life.

Darwin theorized that there was something left over after sexual attractiveness had served its purpose and compelled us to mate. This he called 'beauty' and thought it might be what drives the human animal to make art.

A full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

I felt like an animal, and animals don't know sin, do they?

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

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Bet you've never had a bear down your pants before. Though I'm kind of a bear in bed. (Rick from Back to Basics)

The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else.

The warding off of anxiety is central to the time-binding, action-delaying, and cerebral functions of the human animal.

When Norman O. Brown said that Western society since Newton, no matter how scientific or secular it claims to be, is still as "religious" as any other, this is what he meant: "civilized" society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal.

Socialization means the formation of human beings out of helpless, dependent animal matter.

Anxiety is the result of the perception of the truth of one's condition. What does it mean to be self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression--and with all this yet to die.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

The peregrine falcon is the swiftest, most adept animal I have ever seen. It is worth noting that, like many bird, the falcon's bones are hollow. Travel light.

Do rhinoceroses cough?

Darwin caused controversy, not merely because his ideas contradicted Genesis, but because they fell foul of the way in which Genesis had been read by those influenced by the Enlightenment, for it was the Enlightenment that conceived of the human as almost exclusively rational and intellectual, and set the human at a distance from the animal.

The city was full of everything; it was an inspiring testament to man's ambition and a stark reminder of his animal past.

This tension between the instinctive animal and the reasoning human who discounts anything that doesn't fit into narrow sense categories is fascinating to me.

My father believed that the truth was like a wild animal--just let it loose and it will defend itself.

Joan—seated across from me—took an empty Ziploc from her purse and tidily filled it with meat for her dogs.

It was a sensitive and musical dog.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

dam3 n. the female parent of an animal, especially a domestic mammal.