Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Schopenhauer

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality." - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher

The 1-year-olds, mom is less receptive to. She will drive last year's young off, and the young animals are looking for their own territory.

That was less than the number of animals (40) we had hoped to take from the herd. It was pretty tough hunting. There was full foliage, and the warm weather made the animals not move around too much during the day.

It gave them hope. And it saved them $3,000. This was in a low-income area. When you walked down the street there would be bikes, toys, stuffed animals there. The people haven't been back. That was hard to believe, six or seven months after (Katrina).

It givens them chores to do, and they get to have fun and have responsibilities. It's a learning experience for them and older kids selling animals is one way they get money for college,

It is highly likely that there are more exciting and unusual animals to be found in South East Asia.

Haile Selassie

It is much easier to show compassions to animals. They are never wicked.

I think I care more about the quality of life issues, and that appeals to people that moved here to enjoy the beauty and the animals and all of that. I feel there are some people who are intent on pushing business, and I heard very little else from them.

It deepens their respect. Plus, live animals are just cool.

It has some rare plants, rare animals and rare trees. It's really exciting to be able to protect that.

Julien MacDonald may have been able to ignore images of bloody skinned animals gasping for breath in the past, but hopefully a dash of flour will help him rise to the occasion and forsake fur once and for all.

E. O. Wilson

It is dreadful that so many animals had to suffer in this case because of serious ongoing neglect.

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.

I'd love to see a place where people could get together with their animals and meet other people.

Kenneth Grahame

Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy.

Kenneth Grahame

Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island.

Scott Anderson

I was kind of under the impression that very little research was meaningful in medicine ? that their work was frivolous. Every time I was able to deny a project, I felt I had gained a victory that these animals didn't have to be used in research.

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.

Martin Chalfie

I was interested in science or, at least, nature from an early age, learning the names of planets, cutting cartoons with facts about animals out of the newspaper and gluing them into a scrapbook, and, with a friend when I was five or six, trying to design a submarine.

Knowing those animals are locked up, not able to do any more harm that's one satisfaction. I do not look at them as humans. Humans don't do that.

Amy Davis

Kids are just interested in animals. But it's much more than that. They have certain responsibilities they have to meet, and many want the challenge. It teaches real-life skills. Sports works for some people, something like this works for others.

It also helps people learn to appreciate the animals more if they're involved in something like this.

I think it's a very emotional issue because animals can't speak for themselves. These are people who care about animals and think they are doing the right thing.

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.

Sathya Baba

It is a fact that plants also have life like animals. But animals are endowed with mind, and nervous systems too while the plants do not possess the same.