Quotes About Animal

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold

But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.

I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of possession, but simply by unadorned temptation itself.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

I can't think of anything better in the world to be but a vegan.

No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.

Wearing shoes, clothes, and other accessories made out of exotic skin is as cold-blooded as it gets.

Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.

I am only a dog lover, and I have a nice fawn-colored one at home.

Antonina woke in the night to help midwife an animal like a giraffe (always tricky because the mother gives birth standing up, the calf falls headfirst, and the mother doesn't want help anyway). This

In her diary she described Tuzinka as a giant bundle, the largest baby animal she'd ever seen, weighing in at 242 pounds

However, current research in animal cognition, and on protolanguage, protomorality, ritual, and levels of consciousness, has shown that we may not be as unique as we think we are (cf. Peterson 1999: 283ff.).

There wasn't supposed to be any bear on this island; according to Google, there wasn't supposed to be any animal here larger than a raccoon. But what if Google was wrong?

Todo el sistema sacrificial del Antiguo Testamento estableció a Cristo crucificado. Cada animal ofrecido en un altar era una confesión práctica de que era necesario un Salvador que muriera por los pecadores, un Salvador que quitara el pecado del hombre, por su sufrimiento, como su Sustituto, es decir, que padeciera en su lugar (1 P. 3:18). ¡Es absurdo suponer que el sacrificio de animales inocentes, sin más objetivo que la sola muerte, podría agradar al Dios eterno!

It is the wholeness of living things, the dynamic energy moving from sun to plant to animal, a ceaseless flow that in the long scheme of things is far more important than mineral deposits to our future existence.

Once she said the world was an astonishing animal: light was its spirit and noise was its mind. That it was composed to feed on honor, but did not.

Roundup, has been correlated with changes in the animal microbiome.

I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

It's a cold, stark emptiness that has no laughter in it. No compassion, and no mercy. It's feral. Like the eyes of a hunting animal.

To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

I've never seen grief like it. Grief like that, it's like an animal. She's not eating. She's not sleeping. She's whimpering. She's sluggish. She's not herself

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.