Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Rossellini

I grew up in a family of filmmakers, so I always wanted to make films about animals, especially comical films. Something about animals amuses me. And they have a great mystery. It's the same mystique some people might feel looking at the stars or the ocean.

Lots of the wild animals in the caves have spears in them and blood coming out of their mouths and everything that a hunter would be familiar with. These were the Ferraris and football games of their time. They painted what was on their minds.

Many of the rescued animals will be brought to the Saline County facility to be rehabilitated and then placed in foster homes. Hopefully, their owners can eventually reclaim them.

Molecules are fossils, too. We've shown that proteins survive in very old fossils, and proteins can tell us about diseases, about where prehistoric animals fit in the food chain, what they ate and who they are related to.

May I be dear to deities...people of equal capabilities and animals alike... and may I be blessed with a long life!

Martin Kennedy

One of the things we least understand is why animals evolved so late in Earth history. Why did animals wait until the 11th hour, whereas evidence for more primitive life dates back billions of years? One of the best bets to explain the difference is an increase in oxygen concentration in the atmosphere.

Of all the animals that people have been trying to clone, the dog is the only one that has proven really difficult.

Mark Twain

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

One volunteer said the animals are past being scared - they're blank,

John McEnroe

Neutering is good for his temper, it's good for his health, and it's the most important thing you can do to make a difference for homeless animals! ... Did you know that shelters have to kill more than 4 million animals every year just because there aren't enough good homes out there? I can't have that on my conscience!

Kelly Brown

Needs may actually change. One day water is a priority, but then Anheiser Busch donates water. The next day it could be food. We have to take animals and pets into consideration.

Neko Case

Growing up, my family was very, very into animals. Animals were treated like other people; they slept in the bed with you. I come from an agrarian background. That's how my family's fairy tales are structured, where animals have a lot of power. It gets into people's psyche.

Girls and boys are fundamentally different animals, they learn in different ways, and we are not dealing with those differences, ... We tend to treat all children equally. Girls on the whole look like good students, while boys are not engaged in learning.

From now on, processing and trading raw blood pudding from poultry and animals is strictly prohibited,

Harold E. Varmus

From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they might provide a relatively simple entry into a problem as complex as cancer.

Janice Hahn

If any of those animals had escaped, we could have had a different ending, ... By dumping Reggie in the lake, he put children at risk.

I would have thought they would have better things to do like saving real animals from cruelty, ... This is a toy that is used to relieve stress, it's meant to be a bit of a giggle.

I would characterize myself as a health and safety lover. My love for animals is because if you don't properly care for and manage the pet population, you can have some serious health consequences for people.

I work on the floor with them. Lab coats scare them, so for the animals, it's better to wear regular clothes.

Because of the fast and fierce spread of the virus in so many European countries, I wouldn't be surprised if other nations found cases in the next few days, or if more animals in other German areas become infected.

Jacques Rogge

China is so lucky to have so many beautiful animals to represent the Olympic spirit.

I love animals. If I didn't have the sick ones, I'd make money out here.

Casey Affleck

I love animals, but I love people, and I love people who have all kinds of beliefs.

I love animals and I thought this would be a great way to earn a living. I've been around dogs my whole life, so this is a great way to spend lots of time with different kinds of dogs.

I have an understanding about disease and the relationship to birds and animals. I won't know near as much as staff veterinarians and researchers, but I will be able to understand what they are talking about and hope to help integrate that into what we are doing.

She was very distraught. She was crying about all the buildings and animals that were burned, she was very emotional.

She was a mess, and I knew I won't have her long, but it's the best thing I've ever done. The older animals are always harder to place. A lot of people look at everything over eight as old, but you get a lot of good years out of them. Older animals are really the best ones.

She's only claiming nine cats, even though she's feeding the whole neighborhood. It happens a lot. People just don't realize they can't have as many animals as they want.

Some animals have a lot of nerve - they get caught in my teeth!

Since some of the exhibits will feature live animals, we are asking visitors to please leave their own pets at home.

If they want to put down in some part of the desert surrounded by lions, jackals and other dangerous animals, then we will do it.

If this lady is guilty of anything, it's loving these animals too much. She has them in her house. She has more than most people have in her house. But that is not cruelty. It may be eccentric. It may be unconventional. But it's not cruelty.

Raja Bell

I don't have a whole lot to say about this one. That was a team that was hungry. . . . Sometimes, the wounded animals are the most dangerous.