Famous Quotes & Sayings

They don't have to look the animals in the eyes when they have to be put to sleep.

Walt Whitman

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago.

They had a legal obligation to properly dispose of the animals, and it looks like they didn't do that. As a police department, we're disturbed and concerned. It's a horrific finding.

They felt everything in nature was alive, and animals, trees, and plants were all brother s and sisters.

They are completely fresh and alive. I think it's partly because of his understanding of people and animals.

They are still her animals, except those in legal custodial care.

They are small animals but they do get into some trouble and once they touch two phases at the same time, it causes an outage .

Chuck D.

They are part of an animal cruelty investigation.

You don't want to turn them back loose on the street, but you don't want them to spend months and months or years and years in a shelter. You are going to have situations when you are going to have to put an animal down.

Janice Hahn

This person put a lot of people at risk, ... It's illegal to harbor this kind of exotic animal in a residential neighborhood. It's frightening and it's scary.

There was no national policy that said animals matter.

(There were) numerous neighborhood complaints, not only to our agency, but to the Capital Area Humane Society and Animal Control.

Wayne Pacelle

There were millions of Americans focused on animal welfare issues in the wake of the disaster, and we also know the bungled federal response to the animal crisis undermined the effectiveness of the human rescue mission.

John Landis

There were five films in that time that had budgets of over $25 million that were criticized before they even came out, ... Apocalypse Now, Heaven's Gate, Star Trek - The Motion Picture, 1941 and The Blues Brothers. They started calling us '1942.' But the interesting thing is that, with the exception of one (Heaven's Gate), all of those movies were very successful. When Animal House celebrated its 25th anniversary, many of the same critics who (dumped) on it originally were now calling it a classic.

There were a whole bunch of animal rescue groups out there. They were great. Once we told them there were dogs, they were there within a couple of hours.

Jack Osbourne

There was the Jack Osbourne my parents knew, the Jack Osbourne my friends knew, and the Jack Osbourne the public knew. The one my parents knew was the funny, facetious, nice, loving son my parents know, who is truly caring. With my friends it was a crazy, insane, drinking, using, party animal who knew how to have a good time. And with the public, it was the one they wanted to vote out of the house.

There were so many animals there that he probably couldn't take care of them, and he didn't want to give any of them up.

It's just another misguided publicity stunt by PETA to create a vegan society. KFC is very committed to the humane treatment of chickens and we're very proud of our industry leading animal welfare guidelines.

It seems like it has spread much more widely in animals and in more districts that was initially thought.

It's especially concerning when a celebrity keeps wild animals as that promotes the whole concept of wild animals as pets to the public.

It's entirely important in my mind that we have a centralized, industry-driven animal movement system in this country.

Tony Martin

It's extremely rare for one to turn up in a river in the United Kingdom. I suspect that the animal may be in ill health.

It's fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you will see are plants and animals, and certainly there's a huge diversity of those types of organisms, perhaps 10 million animal species and several hundred thousand plant species.

Tim Reid

It's easier on the animal because you don't have to move them while they are tranquilized,

It's a standard 365-day a year thing. You have to be vigilant on animal cruelty.

It's a serious problem when animals become habituated to people. As they lose their fear of people, they will become bolder in approaching people and may put themselves in hazardous situations they would normally avoid.

It's a relatively safe situation for human health, less so for animal health.

It's a tragic accident. Unfortunately, it's the kind of thing that every researcher, every veterinarian faces with these types of animals whenever you sedate them.

William Williams

It was the love of love, the love that swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of nature, of people, of animals, a love engendering gentleness and goodness that moved me and that I saw in you.

Gertrude Stein

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.

Havelock Ellis

The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection which thus exists conflicts with the prominent display required for sexual allurement. This end is far more effectively attained, with greater advantage and less disadvantage, by concentrating the chief ensigns of sexual attractiveness on the upper and more conspicuous parts of the body. This method is well-nigh universal among animals as well as in man.

Hal Borland

Of all the everyday plants of the earth, grass is the least pretentious and the most important to mankind. It clothes the earth is an unmistakable way. Directly or indirectly it provides the bulk of man's food, his meat, his bread, every scrap of his cereal diet. Without grass we would all starve, we and all our animals. And what a dismal place this world would be!

Gretchen Rubin

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason, in a way that animals can’t do.