Best Animal Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.”

People Men Way Today Animal Tomorrow Animal Welfare

“I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.”

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Author:Dian Fossey

“All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.”

Animal Danger Plant Environmental Perceive Microorganisms

Book:What is Life?

Source: What is Life?

“I slowly began making a few photos with animals over the years, and I liked how people reacted to them. When I would have the animals on set, I'd notice the way the models would interact with them and there was so much true emotion that you rarely see between two human beings.”

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Author:Ryan McGinley

“The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.”

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Author:Stella McCartney

“Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.”

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Author:Chris Noth

“TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.”

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Author:Connie Nielsen

“Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.”

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Author:James Nachtwey

“I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really into beings who are at ease with themselves.”

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Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it's horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Might Animal Pieces Cutting Horrible Get Away Fur Vintage

Author:Kelly Osbourne

“I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.”

Trying Stills Process Animal Written

Author:Tea Obreht

“I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.”

Ifs Thinking Animal Talking Plant Environmental Saving Translate Plants And Animals

Author:Jim Fowler

“Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not... to Bill O”

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“Whether many people realize it yet or not, man, the Inferior Animal, has by now proved himself incapable of keeping his own species - and others - alive for very much longer. So the earth has begun its own plan to set things right.”

People Men Earth Realizing Animal Alive Plans Species Inferiors Incapable

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.”

People Writing Character Wanted Animal Creatures Communicate Dragons Recluse Mythical Creatures Lioness

Author:Tamora Pierce

“Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?”

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Author:Abraham Polonsky

“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.”

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Author:Nick Park

“Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.”

Easy Animal

Author:Stefanie Powers

“I'm very much into animal welfare.”

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Author:Teresa Palmer

“I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.”

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Author:Teresa Palmer

“I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!”

People Animal Gun Shooting Shooting Guns

Author:Maggie Q

“The best days I have are usually days where I'm out in the woods and something happens, like I see an amazing animal like a fox, or I get a glimpse of a wild pig or something that I never see. Or crazy things happen.”

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Author:Amy Ray

“Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.”

“My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.”

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Author:Cheryl Strayed

“I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.”

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Author:Kiki Smith

“Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.”

Ifs Men Should Suffering Culture Animal Towns Killing Satisfied Killing Each Other

Author:Compay Segundo

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

Ifs Would Be Animal Eagles

Author:Jamie Foxx

“Everybody thinks people who promote PETA don't eat meat, but I think animals were made to be eaten.”

People Thinking Made Animal Meat Peta

Author:Dominique Swain

“I just don't think animals should be slaughtered for their fur.”

Thinking Should Animal Fur

Author:Dominique Swain

“Colombia has a huge variety of plant and animal species, and we have enormous potential. Small and mid-sized companies should come to Colombia. From here, they have access to the entire Latin American market.”

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Author:Juan Manuel Santos

“Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”

“We need to preserve these sacred locations for ourselves, for the species of plants and animals that coexist in harmony there, and for the future generations of humankind that will need to be refreshed, renewed and healed by them.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.”

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Author:Anatole France

“I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish.”

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Author:Francis Lawrence

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

Animal Brain Strange Narcissistic Egotistical

Author:Zoe Saldana

“We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.”

Eye Animal Moon

Author:Don Van Vliet

“But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional.”

People Film Animal Television Raises Train Film And Television Wranglers

Author:M. Emmet Walsh

“Love is the language all animals understand.”

Love Language Love Is Animal

Author:Anthony D. Williams

“Almost all the world is natural chemicals, so it really makes you re-think everything. A cup of coffee is filled with chemicals. They've identified a thousand chemicals in a cup of coffee. But we only found 22 that have been tested in animal cancer tests out of this thousand. And of those, 17 are carcinogens. There are ten milligrams of known carcinogens in a cup of coffee and thats more carcinogens than youre likely to get from pesticide residues for a year!”

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Author:Bruce Ames

“Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.”

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Author:Smiley Blanton

“I felt like an animal, and animals don't know sin, do they?”

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Book:Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan

Source: Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan

“Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand the principle of that wisdom which is revealed to all: that we should know and praise God through His creation and that by means of the visible world we should understand whence we came, what we are, for what purpose we were made and where we are going. On the contrary, they travel through this present age in darkness... with... ignorance of God.”

“Animals weren't put on this earth to entertain us.”

Earth Animal

Author:Sheryl Lee

“A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.”

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Author:Tommy Lee

“The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts.”

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Author:Tommy Lee

“All of my friends are animal people. To me, cats are people, too. Animals are people, too. I travel a lot and when I go overseas, it's really hard on me because the animals are treated much differently, especially in developing countries.”

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Author:AnnaLynne McCord

“Before I was going to be an actress, I was going to be a veterinarian! I thought I was one as a child. I was the kid who was like, 'Daddy! I want a kitty! It needs a mommy!' And my dad was such a sucker. Every time I would beg, with tears flying down my face, about how this animal needs love, needs a home. He would cave.”

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Author:AnnaLynne McCord

“I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.”

School Animal High School

Author:Ezra Miller

“Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.”

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Author:Vernor Vinge

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