Animal Quotes

• It's the false moral component behind blind animal love that so frosts me. The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to adore a nonhuman creature is somehow a purer form of love.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Moral
  • Animal
  • Logic

• Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Animal
  • Depressing
  • Vitality

• For decades I have tried to peel back the layers of mystery surrounding many marine creatures, though most have held tightly to their secrets. One animal that keeps me pondering is the shark. Spellbound by these enigmatic animals since I first encountered them in New England, I never tire of watching their special blend of power and grace.

  

  Brian Skerry
  • Power
  • Animal
  • Marine

• What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Animal
  • Empathy

• The train system in India is chaotic and fun - it's the best way to see the landscape. Being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colourful experience you'll never forget.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Experience
  • Fun
  • Best

• I started spending time at stables with my daughter while she was riding. I was reminded of my love for the form and different aspects of the horse. Then I thought about the bit, halter, and bridle in terms of how we harness and ride this animal. There were a lot of interesting elements to explore.

  

  Jill Greenberg
  • Time
  • Different
  • Interesting

• The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Water

• Best, I'd advise, to give up all animal products obtained by cruel methods. There are some fine companies nowadays offering leather substitutes.

  

  Matthew Scully
  • Up
  • Animal

• When you consider your choices-heart disease, colon cancer, plus-size pants, melting ice caps, gale force storms, and animal suffering vs. good health, energy, a trim physique, a livable planet, compassion, and tasty, diverse foods-it's clear that going vegetarian is an excellent choice as we move toward living a more conscious life.

  

  Kathy Freston
  • Life
  • Good
  • Heart

• How many hearts with warm red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining! A multitude of animal people, intimately related to us, but of whose lives we know almost nothing, are as busy about their own affairs as we are about ours.

  

  John Muir
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Red

• 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
  • Mind
  • Imagination
  • Animal

• If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Life
  • Long
  • Hand

• 'It is hard to be brave,' said Piglet, sniffing slightly, 'when you're only a Very Small Animal.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Small
  • Animal
  • Brave

• There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Small

• I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Political
  • Animal
  • Compassion

• My interest in protein breakdown as a research problem began in l955 at about the time I joined the Biochemistry Department of Yale University. It was known that proteins break down intracellularly in the mature animal.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Research

• You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.

  

  Betty White
  • Animal

• Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Man
  • Alone
  • Animal

• No matter what anybody says, relationships are based on physical attraction. The first time I saw my wife, it was pure animal whatever.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Time
  • Wife
  • Animal

• I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'

  

  Kathryn Hahn
  • Kids
  • Animal

• I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Definition
  • Rational

• Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Pet
  • Reverse
  • Zoos

• When I got to New York, I immediately ran like a wild child to Central Park to touch the trees. I am like an animal about trees. I must be near them.

  

  Danielle Darrieux
  • Animal

• But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth.

  

  Katie Couric
  • People
  • Different
  • School

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