Famous Quotes & Sayings

Well, we try to give the best care we can to the animals who need it. We're different from most shelters in that we have the volunteer and donor support to take care of bigger (medical) problems most shelters can't.

Those are the types of animals we recommend be removed. We don't see all coyotes as evil. There are all sorts in the Chicago area that don't cause problems, but when we see one like that, removal is probably in everyone's best interest.

Kurt Vonnegut

We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to as a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are.

Stephen Young

We are doing experiments to see if it actually works in animals.

Paul Campbell

No doubt it would increase our tax base, assess the valuation somewhat, increased revenues from the buildings that he would put up and the animals he would have in those facilities,

Right now, animals are generally considered property. Animals do not have rights in the sense that humans have rights.

Wayne Pacelle

People were staying because they wouldn't leave their animals.

People won't think it will be enforced. It's already hard enough to enforce cruelty to animals.

Brigitte Bardot

My trust in you is broken and I am plunged into despair for the animals.

Nobody in these parts likes to see animals mistreated at all. It's not right. Anyone who would treat an animal like that would probably do the same to kids.

Susan Clark

We have what are considered to be some of the weaker laws in the nation protecting animals.

Peter Singer

In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages, with nothing to do but wait for the next meal. Circuses are even worse places for animals. Their living conditions are deplorable, especially in travelling circuses where cages have to be small so that they can go on the road.

Michael Moore

Those of us who are sick and tired of cutting up animals on the beach are sick and tired of cutting up right whales. It's embarrassing the number of animals I've had to work up and it's unfathomable that we haven't been able to reduce these (deaths) more than we have.

Those kids work hard to prepare their animals for the show and when they get a real check for the first time, it's a big thrill.

We don't have space for large animals like that.

We are out here like pure animals. We don't have help,

Ironically, these rains bring little respite. While they have alleviated the immediate need for water, there is increased risk of people falling sick from drinking contaminated water, while livestock deaths have continued because the animals are too weak and vulnerable to diseases such as pneumonia when temperatures drop at night.

People are buying animals who are not aware of the circumstances, ... You spend a lot of money, $400 or $500, the animal dies shortly thereafter, and you have no recourse.

Over the past five years, we have witnessed the near extinction of the woodland caribou in North America. Indeed, we're only down to three animals in the U.S., largely due to the government's mismanagement of snowmobile traffic in areas vital to the animal's survival.

Owing to variations between animals and humans in the genetic expressions of the next generation, these doubts cannot be resolved through animal tests.

My own animals will be the first ones to talk back to me.

Look at it from the point of view of the animals that live in your garden. They did not evolve in a tidy landscape, they evolved in a landscape where leaves and branches and whatever fell off the tree and just lay there.

March of the Penguins is a unique film in part because it is an unprecedented look at a real-life phenomenon, ... And it anthropomorphizes these animals, and that is a tremendous selling point. And penguins are amusing.

Anna Sewell

Master said, God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He gave animals knowledge . . . which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.

Linda Miles

Well there may very well be home visits for these animals to make sure that they're going to go into proper housing and proper care and that people will no the proper way to care for them.

Kevin Nealon

I do have a place in my heart for animal shelters because the job they have is impossible - so many animals that need to euthanized because don't have homes for them.

Whether he was working with tigers, leopards, elephants, horses, or a giraffe, you immediately knew that he was special, because his incredible rapport with animals was unsurpassed,

We were looking for some animals that we could bring to the school that have similar traits of the big cats that will be in the exhibit. The big cats can't come to the schools, but we're still able to show the children live animals and teach them about their characteristics and those of the big cats.

When it comes to summertime, we have people giving away animals because the family is going on vacation.

We're all sensitive to animals out here. Those people don't deserve to have animals.

Robbie Coltrane

Well, I quite like animals, but they're unpredictable. I mean, look at old what's-his-name in Vegas. Tiger dragged him off the stage, you know? The guy brought up tigers. They're quite unpredictable.

Eugenie Clark

People come to me and say, 'What'll I do if I go in the water and see a shark?' You don't have to do anything. The chances of that shark attacking you in any way is so remote. The sea should be enjoyed, the animals in it. When you see a shark underwater, you should say, 'How lucky I am to see this beautiful animal in his environment!'

Leslie Jamison

The 'here' of Watts is pastel houses with window gratings in curly patterns. 'Here' is yard sales with bins full of stuffed animals and used water guns. Here is Crips turf.