Animals Quotes

"Man, an animal that makes bargains"

"Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me"

James Dean, Actor

"Animal welfare issues have always been important to me"

Cathy Guisewite, Cartoonist

"It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"Every seed is awakened, and all animal life"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means"

Thomas Malthus, Economist

"I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you"

Sophia Loren, Actress

"I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor"

Jack Prelutsky, Poet

"There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us"

Loren Eiseley, Scientist

"To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all"

Rex Stout, Writer

"Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind"

Malcolm De Chazal, Writer

"PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness"

Bea Arthur, Actress

"Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection"

Bea Arthur, Actress

"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave"

Thomas Browne, Scientist

"Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage"

William Jennings Bryan, Lawyer

"Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with"

Jared Diamond, Author

"The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources"

Tom Allen, Politician

"I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs and cats, for example - from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts"

Kristen Bell, Actress

"The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals"

Ellsworth Huntington, Educator

"No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings"

Ellsworth Huntington, Educator

"Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly"

Ellsworth Huntington, Educator

"The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom"

Uri Geller, Entertainer

"When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form"

Ivan Reitman, Actor

"It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation"

Elton Gallegly, Politician

"Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god"

Francis Picabia, Artist

"I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment"

Daniel Johns, Musician

"I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within"

William Jackson

"Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection"

Vernor Vinge, Writer

"New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine"

Daniel Akaka, Politician

"I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there"

Mickey Rourke, Actor

"I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading"

Elihu Root, Lawyer

"If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear"

Christopher Dawson, Writer

"Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want"

Bruce Greenwood, Actor

"I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal"

David Duchovny, Actor

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