Quotes About Animal

What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic

At that time, a pregnant woman could not get an abortion in Massachusetts -- but a cat could.

You've never seen surprise until you've looked into the eyes of an ascending bovine.

Another armored animal—scalelapping scale with spruce cone regularity until theyform the uninterrupted centraltail row!

An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle In The Shape Of A Fish" Here we have thirst and patience, from the first, and art, as in a wave held up for us to see in its essential perpendicularity; Not brittle but intense--the spectrum, that spectacular and humble animal the fish, whose scales turn aside the sun's sword with their polish.

We always tend to keep within ourselves threshold reactions such as a little doubt, or a little impulse not to do something. If the impulses are not very strong we are inclined to put them aside in a one-sided way and by this we have hurt an animal or a spirit within us.

Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals.

I don't eat friggin' lobster or anything like that. Because they're alive when you kill it.

PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

It's an Afghanistan goat, so it can't stay here, or else it'll choke on the sweet air of freedom.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

Guy goes into a bar with a duck under his arm. Bartender says, "Where'd you get the pig?" Guy says, "This is a duck." Bartender says, "I was talking to the duck."

Oh, that dog! Ever hear of a German Shepherd that bites its nails? Barks with a lisp? You say, "Attack!" And he has one. All he does is piddle. He's nothing but a fur-covered kidney that barks.

What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat?

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.

As unrefined and basic as an animal's emotional equipment may be, it is not insensitive to freedom. Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.

A zooology teacher asks the class 'What is the one animal in the jungle that a lion is afraid of?' The class answers: a lioness.

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

I love simple food. I like to serve the entire animal, not only because it somehow provokes a customer to think about it, but also because to honor of the animal that has been killed for us to eat, you have to eat the whole thing. It would be silly to just eat the chops and throw everything else away.

What does a wolf teach her pups but teeth and hunger? You didn't make me in your image. You made me into something worse.

An ambitious judge is a dangerous animal.

i am estranged from most men. my american express card says simply: multicellular animal with specialized digestive cavities -- requires corrective glasses