Quotes About Animal

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

It was building up in his chest, that long guttural howl reserved for real emergencies — like when you ran into a saber-toothed tiger without your club, or your fire went out during the Ice Age.

probably no one would have ever even heard of a yak if it hadn't been about the only animal that began with a y.

Haymitch is still dead to the world. Since nothing else has worked, I fill a basin with icy cold water, dump it on his head, and spring out of the way. A guttural animal sound comes from his throat. He jumps up, kicking his chair a metre behind him and wielding a knife. I forgot he always sleeps with one clutched in his hand. I should have prised it from his fingers, but I've had a lot on my mind. Spewing profanities, he slashes the air a few moments before coming to his senses.

I know a lot of people want to buy puppies, but adopting a dog who needs a home is doing something good.

You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the body part of some other animal or plant who would just as soon keep that body part for itself.

But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal.

When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she's preaching. I'm not preaching, but I think maybe I learned it from my animal friends. Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

Her skin smelled like the twilight moon and her eyes looked primal, like a hungry animal. She was darkness – dangerous, beautiful darkness.

Groups are units on their own. There are qualitative differences between a group of ten and a group of, say, 395,435. Each is a different animal, in the literal sense, as different as a book is from an office building

He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.

Another part of him wanted to howl to the moon like a wolf.

Oh, I don't mean you're handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they're beautiful. They're wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.

TV can make me ill in five minutes, but I can look at an animal for hours and find nothing but grace and glory, life as it should be.

Sus ojos, muy abiertos, temblaban, pero sin miedo, sin vacilación. Aquellos ojos: lo dejaban entrar y salir todo. Ella era animal, y humana.

Because charcoal contains few nutrients, Glaser argued, "high-nutrient inputs—excrement and waste such as turtle, fish, and animal bones—are necessary." Special soil microorganisms are also likely to play a role in its persistent fertility.

But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?

I have described, in the second chapter, the gait and appearance of a dog when cheerful, and the marked antithesis presented by the same animal when dejected and disappointed, with his head, ears, body, tail, and chops drooping, and eyes dull.

The spirit which sleeps in the mineral, breathes in the vegetable, moves in the animal, and reaches its highest development in man is the Universal Mind

animal might be lonely, or wanted a scratch on his

A black pit bull barreled against the fence, jaws dripping with saliva, viciously barking like Old Yeller after the hydrophobia kicked in.

My parents' firstborn was a rescued collie mix.

If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.

No one likes doing primate experiments, but some research can only be done on monkeys.