Animals Quotes

• We are seeing the cells of plants and animals more and more clearly as chemical factories, where the various products are manufactured in separate workshops.

  

  Eduard Buchner
  • Animals
  • Seeing
  • Plants

• The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Animals
  • Audacity
  • Impertinence

• To survive today, other animals must endure global warming, pollution, and fewer habitats. More tragically, they must endure the silence of human hearts.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • Human
  • Silence
  • Hearts

• America is new to instrumental dance tracks on the radio, we were all so surprised "Animals" did so well on the radio.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • America
  • Radio
  • Tracks

• First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • House
  • Sleep
  • First

• Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Human
  • Afraid
  • Thoroughly

• Drinking when not thirsty and making love all the time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from other animals.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais
  • People
  • Animals
  • Distinguish

• The Bible nowhere says that animals are just made for human use. It does not say that the whole earth is just ours to do with as we like. Neither does it say that God's sole interest is with the human species. We cannot allow such an important and influential book to become the preserve of those who want to exploit animals. The Bible needs to be read, studied, and reclaimed for the animals.

  

  Andrew Linzey
  • God
  • Human
  • Bible

• There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other-by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thought
  • Child
  • Parent

• Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Care
  • Animal

• Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Things

• All animals are born with innocence, curiosity and love.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • Love
  • Born
  • Curiosity

• If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Injury
  • Aspires

• "Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Animals
  • Queen
  • No Risk

• If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?

  

  Tom Snyder
  • Animals
  • Supposed
  • Meat

• In a best-selling book, 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs (reprinted nine times by 1935), a pair of consumer-advocate authors complained that American citizens had become test animals for chemical industries that were indifferent to their customers' well-being. The government, they added bitterly, was complicit.

  

  Deborah Blum
  • Book
  • Government
  • Chemical

• I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Dead
  • Stomach
  • Graveyard

• I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.

  

  Edith Head
  • Star
  • See
  • Animals

• I collect stuffed animals, and toy stores make me happy.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Happy
  • Stuffed
  • Toy Stores

• Animals are footprints of God.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Animals
  • Footprints

• We are taking very drastic actions to reduce the risk of avian influenza to animals and birds.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Risk
  • Actions
  • Influenza

• You have to walk through the kennel and check out the older animals before you can get to the puppies and kittens - and let me tell you, sometimes the adopters never make it to the puppies and kittens.

  

  Beth Ostrosky Stern
  • Animals
  • Kittens
  • Adopters

• Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this.

  

  Lydia Millet
  • Children
  • Art
  • Parents

• So much of today's food is based on the exploitation of animals and the environment. Yes, it's cheap, but at what cost?

  

  Steve Ells
  • Food
  • Animals
  • Exploitation

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