Quotes about animal
animal suffering abuse
I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals. Richard Pryor
animal punishment circus
But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.
animal hair hands
You don't have to say it out loud. I already know why you like me.' 'You do, huh?' 'Yep.' He wrapped his arms around my waist, pulling me closer. 'So,' I said. 'Tell me' 'It's an animal attraction,' he said simply. 'Totally chemical.' 'Hmm,' I said. 'You could be right.' 'It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me.' 'No?' 'Nope.' His hands were in my hair now, and I was leaning in, not able to totally make out his face, but his voice was clear, close to my ear. 'Just that you do. Sarah Dessen
animal spirit follow-me
I don't like to go into subways, because I always see them [ mice]. They are like my naguales [kindred animal spirits]. They follow me. I have literally stepped off of a plane in Phoenix and gotten my bag and stepped out on the curb and they'll be a big desert rat walking right in front of me. Sandra Cisneros
animal vegetarian-diet eggs
What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. That's it. Animal protein is bad for you. Dairy is bad for you. Forget the ads: Milk and eggs are bad for you. Roger Ebert
animal not-happy built
We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones. Robert Wright
animal elephants sick
One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife. Robert T. Bakker
animal worry generations
Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere. Robert Smith
animal people dog-lover
Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around. Roger Caras
animal long needs
It doesn't matter where or how it is grown as long as it is packaged in plastic, put on the supermarket shelves, and bought as a commodity. In the New Story food is not commodity. Food is sacred. We need to be connected with soil, with animals that we take care of. Satish Kumar
animal monkeys existence
The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence. William Henry Hudson
animal class strange
Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.
animal intelligent choices
Because we are intelligent creatures-meaning that we are freed from instinctive and patterned behavior to a degree unparalleled in the animal kingdom-we are capable of, and dependent on, using rational choice to decide our futures. Willard Gaylin
animal two evil
There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them. Voltaire
animal law feet
It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.
animal discovery blood
The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty. William Ralph Inge
animal dying
We are fastened to a dying animal. William Butler Yeats
animal hands two
In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments. Wilhelm Wundt
animal men peaceful
MAN IS FUNDAMENTALLY AN ANIMAL. Animals, as distinct from man, are not machine-like, not sadistic; their societies, within the same species, are incomparably more peaceful than those of man. The basic question, then is: What has made the animal, man, degenerate into a machine? Wilhelm Reich
animal monk trusted
Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted. Walter Scott
animal bacteria biology
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being. Walter Gilbert
animal land pbs
The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which also inhabit those regions. The fish of the Great Lakes are laced with mercury from industrial plants, and fluoride from aluminum plants poisons the land and the people. Sewage from the population centers is mixed with PCBs and PBS in the watershed of the great lakes and the Finger Lakes, and the water is virtually nowhere safe for any living creatures. Winona LaDuke
animal roots body
I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action ... Winifred Holtby
animal names dumb
Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.
animal age yards
The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age. Winston Churchill
animal names eggs
A society remotely worth its salt eventually has to come to grips with the barbarism practiced upon helpless creatures in the name of scientific experimentation, tastier/tenderer meat, or more and larger eggs! William Kunstler
animal simple compassion
If you eat chicken, maybe you're on one level. If you wear a mink coat, maybe you're on another level. But if you wear cosmetics, cosmetics that are tested on animals, then you're just unconscious. Really, my message is simple. It's a message of compassion. In this world that is spinning madly out of control, we have to realize that we're all related. We have to try to live harmoniously. Woody Harrelson
animal doors years
Every year tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests of cosmetics and household products...despite the fact that the test results do not help prevent or treat accidental or purposeful misuse of the products. Please join me in using your voice for those whose cries are forever sealed behind the laboratory doors.
animal trying looks
Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... The conscious impulse to change one's appearance is found only among humans. Wislawa Szymborska
animal smartphones dumb
What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo! Will Self
animal water long
Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments. Will Rogers
animal fans inspired
I've always been influenced by the human form. I'm a big fan of that Shakespeare quote. I tend to leave out the bad part of the paragon of animals quote, because I have this sort of Ayn Rand aesthetic. It was always one of those quotes that inspired me. Zack Snyder
animal seven-years numbers
They say the number on rule in showbusiness is not to work with animals. I guess I'm above the rules because I put up with that for seven years. Zach Braff