Animals Quotes

"Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't"

Russell Hoban, Novelist

"I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability"

Robert Lanza, Scientist

"I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal"

John Elway, Athlete

"Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals"

Marvin Harris, Scientist

"I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us"

Jim Fowler, Scientist

"If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals"

Edmund Husserl, Philosopher

"But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"I don't eat or wear animals, but I never tell people not to - that's just my view"

Loretta Swit, Actress

"Animals are thinking, feeling creatures. They're sensitive"

Loretta Swit, Actress

"Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

"The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow"

Dian Fossey, Scientist

"When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be"

Jimmy Fallon, Comedian

"Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons"

Jose Bergamin, Writer

"I have always loved animals since I was very young"

Nafisa Joseph, Model

"I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up"

Julie Walters, Actress

"The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans"

Jim Fowler, Scientist

"As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"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"

Kenneth Grahame, Novelist

"Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger"

Kenneth Grahame, Novelist

"I love very much to draw animals"

Josef Albers, Artist

"Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied"

Henry George, Economist

"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, Novelist

"An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal"

Robert Lanza, Scientist

"Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments"

Robert Barany, Scientist

"Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist"

Robert Lanza, Scientist

"A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them"

John Desmond Bernal, Scientist

"The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal"

Brian May, Musician

"When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?"

Jeremy Rifkin, Economist

"All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

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