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Quotes About Animal

If there is any animal in the whole category of four-legged creatures that more thoroughly deserves to be called a pig than the pig, I don't know what it is. He looks like a pig, he behaves like a pig, and he eats like a pig—in fact he is a pig, and Adam never did anything better than when he invented that name and applied it.
~ JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
If there is any animal in the whole category of four-legged creatures that more thoroughly deserves to be called a pig than the pig, I don't know what it is. He looks like a pig, he behaves like a pig, and he eats like a pig—in fact he is a pig, and Adam never did anything better than when he invented that name and applied it.
~ JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
He thought that he was a human being with rights, when in fact he was just another animal in the zoo.
~ John Lescroart
A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies.
~ John Malkovich
I heard that, too. Nope. I'm an animal behaviorist. Here to assess recent changes in communication patterns. You in whale processing?
~ Elizabeth Bear
Jane drew herself up, chin high and shoulders back, and extended her hand. It was half the gesture of a Queen to a Queen, and half an offering to a wild animal, and Matthew bit his lips on a smile when he noticed.
~ Elizabeth Bear
At the door I paused. 'So what was your spirit animal?' 'A dolphin. Fun in the sun, endless summer. What about you?' 'Dee Dee Ramone,' I said, and left.
~ Elizabeth Hand
New York group that took as its mission "the introduction and acclimatization of such foreign varieties of the animal and vegetable kingdom as might prove useful or interesting" imported European starlings to the U.S. (The head of the group supposedly wanted to bring to America all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare.)
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
how to perform an ultrasound with one arm up a rhino's rectum.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
so Durrant stroked the area around his cloaca
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
Jung wrote, "Eros is a questionable fellow and will always remain so…. He belongs on one side to man's primordial animal nature, which will endure as long as man has an animal body. On the other side he is related to the highest forms of the spirit. But he thrives only when spirit and instinct are in right harmony.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
You have to stop doing, you know, human stuff," I called. "It is seriously creepy coming from a wolf.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
Man is a social animal. Without society he is nothing but animal. Yet many consider themselves 'self made'.
~ B. J. Gupta
I think everybody has their own inner rap spirit animal.
~ Lil Dicky
It's very rare for me to come across a script for NYMF that is truly its own animal. That's really what appealed to me about 'Valueville.' I still have my notes from when I first read it.
~ Donna Lynne Champlin
Spay or neuter your dog or cat so our shelters don't fill at inexorable rates.
~ Suzy Shuster
The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification.
~ Mike Johanns
I think that my favourite animal is a baby possum, or a joey. The face of a really little joey is so divine - so, so gorgeous.
~ Mem Fox
Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
~ Ben Stein
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
~ Bertrand Russell
moose was a moose. There
~ Gary Paulsen
I wanted to confront her, to make her see the folly of her religion, to change her diet, to help her spend less on makeup and other nonessentials, to make her worship every biological moment she was offered instead of some badly punctured deity. I also wanted to kiss her for some reason, feel the life pulsing in those big Catholic lips, remind myself of the primacy of the living animal, of my time amongst the Romans.
~ Gary Shteyngart
We are, after all, an animal that was brought into being on this biosphere by these processes of sun and water and lead. And if we depart too far from them, we're departing too far from the mother, from our heritage.
~ Gary Snyder
The anti-human, the merely animal, consists in staying within the sphere of feeling, and being able to communicate only at that level. (1807, § 69).
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel