Animal Quotes

We are concerned by the upward trend in the use of animals in scientific procedures.

David Rutley
Children, like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way...Or now and then we'll hear from an artisit who's never lost it.

Eudora Welty
- World
- Children
- Artist

We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning.

Diane Ackerman
- Spiritual
- Internet
- Plant
Even very smart people can try to shoehorn new information that just doesn't fit into an existing paradigm.For a long time the story that we've been telling ourselves is that humans are just another animal. We evolved from other animals and our place in the universe isn't particularly special. What I'm trying to convey in my book The Sixth Extinction is that we are unusual.

Elizabeth Kolbert
Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people?

Wendy Doniger
- People
- Animal
They too, are created by the same loving hand of God which Created us...It is our duty to Protect Them and to promote their well-being.

Mother Teresa
- Duty
- Protect
- Welfare
But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.

Richard Pryor
- Use
- Punishment
- Circus
There was something about the sound of a man in pain that resembled the sound of a wounded animal.

Benjamin Alire Saenz
- Pain
- Animal
- Wounded