Animal Quotes

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

My father was not a political animal.

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

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Fame is a very strange animal.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

My favorite animal is steak.

It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.

I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

I'm very much into animal welfare.

I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

I just love dogs, and there really is no better companion than an animal.

Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Man as a pure animal does not exist.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.

I only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed.

To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.

Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

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

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.

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

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.

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

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.

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?

Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

No other animal bonds to a human being the way a dog does. And I suspect there is no other animal to which human beings can bond the way we can bond to a dog.

I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

I'm going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I'll never stop.

I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.

I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defence, should one think of killing any animal.

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.

Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases.

It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.

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

I think breakfast is the one meal when you don't have to eat animal, maybe.

Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once.

I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal.

My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration.

Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms.

I think that my favourite animal is a baby possum, or a joey. The face of a really little joey is so divine - so, so gorgeous.

If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.

There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.

I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.

In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.

Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

Reality TV is a totally different animal than the infomercial world.

You don't know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal.

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

I won't wear fur - never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.

I felt like a hunted animal, followed constantly, waiting to be killed.