Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have sent smaller 1-ton vehicles to carry the food, as the 15-ton trucks were unable to move in smaller villages that were accessible. We plan to have animals such as donkeys or horses to help transport the food later.

Alison Goldfrapp

Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.

Alison Goldfrapp

I think some women try to make you feel you're not all female because you haven't given birth. There are a lot of prejudices. Some women think women who have animals are deeply sad, because what they really want is a child. Mind you, there's probably an element of truth in that.

Jon Katz

I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and they leave at a particular time. The whole glorious history of animals with people is about joy and connection. It's about loving this creature and letting this creature love you.

Jon Katz

Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.

Training is 90 percent psychology. You must to be a disciplinarian and also good to the animals.

While we are rightfully proud of the outstanding research that has evolved from Ohio State's primate cognition project in the last decade or so, we believe the time is now right to move the animals to safer quarters where they can live out their lives in peace.

While these animals are in trouble, there is not sufficient justification to list the Puget Sound population under the ESA.

Tim Miles

Unfamiliar guests, excited children, strange decorations, noise from party poppers, fireworks or balloons and family disputes can often make the most settled animals ill at ease in their usually familiar surroundings.

Louise Fresco

Fighting the disease in animals is key to our success in limiting the threat of a human pandemic.

William Bird

But I've never taken on animals like this before. This is my first dealing with anything that has wings or four legs.

Amanda Seyfried

I love animals and they're very easy to look after when they're dead.

Chuck Palahniuk

We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.

Aristotle

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

The good thing about HBO is that they have the bigger picture in mind. And Last Chance for Animals has a (free-standing) bill pending in Congress called The Pet Safety and Protection Act. And they have been trying to get this through for many years.... HBO is talking about holding a screening in Washington.

There are animals that you cannot legally own without a permit in Virginia, and frankly permitting them would only be done (in terms of) research, scientific study, or as an exhibitor or educator. Even then, that list of animals that are on (the list), that would be closely scrutinized before anybody would be permitted to have them.

Nora Volkow

When you hunt animals, you may succeed or not. But when you open the fridge, you will succeed 100 percent of the time.

We animals spend most of our lives quarrelling over where we are going in the next life while all the other animals are enjoying this one.

We love animals. If we could, we would take some. We, unfortunately, are prohibited through the state health department to do that.

We have major concerns about stocking animals for hunting. This practice should be banned.

We must also increase the USDA surveillance program, which is testing just one percent of all animals slaughtered in the United States. We think USDA should be testing all animals over 20 months at slaughter. But at a minimum, USDA should test all high-risk cattle, and all cattle from Western Canada, from the Pacific Northwest and from Texas, where cases have been identified.

We must also increase the USDA surveillance program, which is testing just 1 percent of all animals slaughtered in the United States. We think USDA should be testing all animals over 20 months at slaughter. But at a minimum, USDA should test all high-risk cattle, and all cattle from Western Canada, from the Pacific Northwest and from Texas, where cases have been identified.

Neil Shubin

When we look inside the fin, we see a shoulder, we see an elbow, and we see an early version of a wrist, which is very similar to that of all animals that also walk on land.

When we know there are 136 animals on a location, you sit down and talk about our best plan of action, particularly when he?s not being honest and he?s not opening all the doors.

We came here to check out the welfare of the animals. If they are not well, we'll keep them until they are well.

We know that people will dump it on the side of the road. Our whole job is about giving these animals a second chance.

Dean Falk

We vocalize continually in a way that helps babies begin to learn language by the end of the first year. I wanted to find out why we are the only animals that talk, and this need to pacify our babies as humans evolved may be the reason.

We've had to rescue animals from fires before and needed to give them oxygen. These (masks) fit tighter around their snouts (than human masks) so they can get 100 percent oxygen.

We've got wet sheets and blankets over them and we're pouring water over those to keep the animals wet and cool.

We're such a throw-away society. These are healthy animals that die every day. That's what we're trying to stop, the perception these animals are throw-away -- they have no value.

There is also evidence that there are young animals in the group so it would appear that breeding is indeed taking place.

Bob Larson

The public health threats are extremely difficult to find. The diseases that can be passed from animals to humans are primarily of concern for people that work directly with livestock.

Will Estes

The reason that they put animals down is that they don't have any room in the shelters when new ones come in and ones got to go out so they have room.