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Quotes About Animal

The horse is by Nature a very lazy animal whose idea of heaven is an enormous field of lush grass in which he can graze undisturbed until his belly is full, and after a pleasant doze can start filling himself up all over again.
~ Captain Elwin Hartley Edwards
You are an animal of nature, fully endowed with hearing, sight, intellect, and dangerous defenses. You are not easy prey, so don't act like you are.
~ Gavin de Becker
People can be very motivated to become very control experts because an inability to predict behavior is absolutely intolerable for human beings and every other social animal. The fact that most people act predictably is literally is what holds human societies together.
~ Gavin de Becker
The first thing I noticed when I woke up was the hippo squatting on my head.
~ Gemma Halliday
Most every old civilizations looks at others--members of the same species but not of the same tribe--as wild men. It's a common rationalization, because when you reduce someone else to a level of something like an animal, it makes them easier to kill.
~ Gene Doucette
The dog is a real ." Ed. Note: can't use actual word (b/c filthy)
~ Geoff Rodkey
His palfrey was as broun as is a berye.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
No es extraño que quienes dominan al género humano ocupen un rango tan superior al de quienes lo educan? Esto revela hasta qué punto el hombre es un animal esclavo.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Your body is a hyacinth, Into which a monk dips his waxy fingers. Our silence is a black cavern, From which a soft animal steps at times And slowly lowers heavy eyelids. On your temples black dew drips, The last gold of expired stars
~ Georg Trakl
What should you do when you see an endangered animal that is eating an endangered plant?
~ George Carlin
I'm a weremongoose. I'm fucking fast. When I get bored, I play with my pet cobra, and I don't mean that figuratively.
~ Ilona Andrews
Madame Péricand thought reproachfully. She was one of those middle-class women who generally trust the lower classes. "They're not so bad if you know how to deal with them," she would say in the same condescending and slightly sad tone she used to talk of a caged animal. She was proud that she kept her servants for a long time. She insisted on looking after them when they were ill.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
But murder applies specifically to human beings. One does not murder an animal, for instance.
~ Isaac Asimov
Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.
~ Isabel Allende
Sólo se reía de buena gana con Marcelo, de sus patas cortas y su cara de lémur; ese animal se daba el lujo de ser narcisista y gruñón, como un marido.
~ Isabel Allende
If I could adopt any zoo animal, it would be a giraffe. I have always loved giraffes. They are so graceful and beautiful to watch.
~ Torrey DeVitto
I worked at the zoo for three months, and I got to be very close with the 400 pound gorilla. And I was one of three people in the world that could touch him.
~ Josh Blue
When I was in college, the first thing we did in acting class was to observe an animal at the zoo and become that animal. So I picked a wallaby.
~ Claire Coffee
My favourite animal would probably be - probably be a dingo. Because I like how in the night you can - at the zoo, you can hear them howl and stuff like that. It's just amazing.
~ Bindi Irwin
The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
~ John Ruskin
Man is a reasoning, rather than a reasonable animal.
~ Robert B. Hamilton
Did you know that, pound for pound, the moose is the leanest ruminant on Earth? It's true. Moose are very in tune with their natural surroundings.
~ Daniel Mallory Ortberg
An animal has to suffer for us old-school Latinos to get what we want.
~ George Lopez
The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's the intellect that's interesting.
~ Henry Czerny