Animals Quotes

"In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found"

Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist

"I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do"

Rebecca Miller, Director

"So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases"

Mike Rogers

"But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his"

James Cromwell, Actor

"I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment"

Pat Buckley, Clergyman

"The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation"

Joseph Franklin Rutherford, Clergyman

"Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional"

James Cromwell, Actor

"We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still"

Lewis Thomas, Scientist

"When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed"

Lou Brock, Athlete

"Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same"

Bea Arthur, Actress

"I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person"

Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Author

"I'm lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him for a while. I feel bad"

Michelle Branch, Musician

"I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal"

James J. Gibson, Psychologist

"The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands"

Jared Diamond, Author

"Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north"

Jared Diamond, Author

"I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them"

Tracy Chapman, Musician

"Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear"

Mary C. Jones

"The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights"

Michael Vick, Athlete

"When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us"

Mike Johanns, Politician

"The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am"

Steve Irwin, Scientist

"I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you"

James Cameron, Director

"Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"I love animals and I love to see movies with animals that are done respectfully, you know?"

Kristin Davis, Actress

"With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system"

Steve Buscemi, Actor

"The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification"

Mike Johanns, Politician

"In this day and age when we do so much business in foreign trade, we need the ability to identify trace an animal very quickly, identifying where it came from - where it has been, and where it is at today"

Mike Johanns, Politician

"But I'm very happy with my life the way it has been turning out. A little time in the country, a little time with the animals and working on behalf of them"

Mary Tyler Moore, Actress

"But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you're going to go after animals who need you"

Eric Roberts, Actor

"The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals"

Eric Roberts, Actor

"Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us"

Malcolm De Chazal, Writer

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