Quotes about animal
animal quiet quiet-time
I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me. Olivia Newton-John
animal desire world
Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant-based diet, and I feel about a thousand times more energetic... I am really honored, and very inspired to continue living the vegan lifestyle that has been so good to my body, my animal friends, and the world we live in. Olivia Wilde
animal fables moral
I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals. Margaret Atwood
animal roots bird
Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework. Margaret Atwood
animal environmental eating-meat
If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it. Margaret Atwood
animal speech needs
The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word. Margaret Atwood
animal play names
EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play? Margaret Atwood
animal air views
In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fears the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction we should be kind, we should take warning, we should forgive each other Instead we are opposite, we touch as though attacking, the gifts we bring even in good faith maybe warp in our hands to implements, to manoeuvres Margaret Atwood
animal animal-love
Every animal loves itself. Marcus Tullius Cicero
animal past men
The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct. Marcus Tullius Cicero
animal hands history
When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree! Marcus Tullius Cicero
animal may path
When a stray animal crosses your path, it may be as close to God as you're going to get in this lifetime. Kinky Friedman
animal
I accredit animals for keeping me going when times were bad. Kelly Bishop
animal squirrels bird
She told them simply and directly that the meadow was a place of peace and beauty, where indeed if one came to it in a quiet manner, the animals would not be disturbed; for there are lovely birds, and squirrels and field mice, and sometimes deer. Kathryn Lasky
animal names looks
There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion. Kathryn Bigelow
animal joy forever
Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They're a group phenomenon, they're not very fast, they're quite sickly. So what's the pleasure of being one? Margaret Atwood
animal men favors
It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals. Mark Twain
animal men favors
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals. Mark Twain
animal feelings humanity
It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it. Mark Twain
animal differences humanity
Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on. Mark Twain
animal humanity poor
Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest? Mark Twain
animal eight ideas
God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day when they were again needed. Therefore it was an odd idea to save specimens of them for eleven months in the ark, whilst aware that eight persons could not feed or water them by any human possibility. If they were to be preserved by miracle, the ark was not necessary - to let them swim would have answered the purpose and been more indubitably miraculous. Mark Twain
animal extinction different
What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction. Leonardo DiCaprio
animal vanity tails
As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered. Leonardo da Vinci
animal tongue foul
Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another. Leonardo da Vinci
animal space body
I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense. Leonardo da Vinci
animal practice honor
It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head, an academy figure, or draperies, animals, landscapes, or the like -- in other words, confining himself to some particular object of study. This is so because there is scarcely a person so devoid of genius as to fail of success if he applies himself earnestly to one branch of study and practices it continually. Leonardo da Vinci
animal creating mind
The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places. Leonardo da Vinci
animal body animal-rights
My body is not a tomb for animals. Leonardo da Vinci
animal one-day looks
One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings. Leonardo da Vinci
animal years sea
In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish. Paul R. Ehrlich
animal stories wild-world
Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect. Patrick Ness
animal wild-world stories
Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect. Patrick Ness