Best animal & mother Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

Home Mother Animal Saved Abandoned Injured Needy

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.”

Firsts Mother Love Is Animal Existence Delight Sensibility Expansion Absorbing Mother's Love

Book:Felix Holt: The Radical

Source: Felix Holt: The Radical

“I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.”

“The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the best of mothers, provides, yet nothing satisfies you, but to behave like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except by destroying some other life.”

“My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state; that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.”

Men Humans States Mother Purpose Fall Belief Animal Casts Convinced Flesh Firm Curse Feeding Vegetarianism Shameful Infirmity Perversity Firm Beliefs

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“Why, then, does water-form the very basis of life in all life's various manifestations? Because water embraces everything is in and all through everything; because it rises above the distinctions between plants and animals and human beings; because it is a universal element shared by all; itself undetermined, yet determining; because, like the primal mother it is, it supplies the stuff of life to everything living.”

“Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.”

Has Beens Mother Nature Animal Stepmothers

Book:Thoughts on Art and Life:

Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:

“The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another.”

Years Firsts Long Self Moving Joy Mother Term Love Is Animal Existence Delight Range Sensibility Expansion Absorbing Suppression Mother's Love

Book:Felix Holt: The Radical

Source: Felix Holt: The Radical

“Growing up on a farm taught me a reverence for all forms of life. We were a large and poor farm family, so that meant that we had to kill and eat our animal friends. When you do that you are aware of the sacrifice that someone is making so that you may live. My mother always made sure we were thankful for those precious gifts.”

May Made Form Mother Animal Poor Growing Up Growing Sacrifice Atheism Taught Positive Atheism Farms Reverence Precious Gifts Animal Friends

Author:Roger Fouts

“Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last; though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.”

Ends Lasts Mother Animal Experiments Kingdoms Cruelty Progressive Pregnant Provoking Rapids Cuckoos Animal Kingdom

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.”

Believe Mean Mother Animal Dog Taught Grew Grew Up Cat Fishes Consideration Rats Snakes Spiders Wildlife Deserving Taught Us Cat And Dog

Author:Joanna Lumley

“I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.”

Earth Mother Water Animal Company Taken Oil Damage Mother Earth Creeks Oil Companies

Author:Winona LaDuke

“And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.”

Mother Animal Rich Environment Amount Plant Incredibles Manage Data Mother Nature Biodiversity Small Amounts Biosphere

Author:Freeman Dyson

“The center of life is female - we all come from our mothers. I've always drawn women or female spirits. I feel deeply about this - who gives a damn about some guy on a cross? My mother's creativity was smothered after she married and raised a family, but she was supportive of me - even my father expected me to carry on in her footsteps. I prefer to have no kids but lots of animals.”

Giving Feels Kids Life Is Spirit Mother Guy Father Animal Creativity Married Female Crosses Raised Expected Damn Supportive Footsteps

Author:Vali Myers

“When I look at birds and animals, their survival is without rules, without conditions, without organization. But mothers take good care of their offspring. That's nature. In human beings also, parents - particularly mothers - and children have a special bond. Mother's milk is a sign of this affection. We are created that way. The child's survival is entirely dependent on someone else's affection. So, basically, each individual's survival or future depends on society. We need these human values.”

“From my earliest memories I was fascinated by animals. I would explore my backyard for insects and gaze at anthills until my elbows became sore. When I was 8, my mother bought me a book of North American birds and I've been keen on birdwatching since.”

Book Mother Memories Animal Bird Fascinated Insects Elbows Backyards

Author:Jonathan Balcombe

“The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past.”

Humans Children Past Mother Animal Christianity Catholic Human Experience Icons Mother And Child Motifs

Author:Robert Neelly Bellah

“When someone you love truly dies, you have to find them over and over again in the world, and I think you do that on a very psychic, unconscious level, and I think in some ways I was calling out to that spirit of my mother when I saw the fox. It doesn't surprise me it's in animals that I find my mother.”

Thinking World Way Spirit Mother Dies Animal Levels Saws Calling Surprise Unconscious Foxes Psychics Surprise Me One You Love Someone You Love

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“Show dogs and their handlers remind me of Brooke Shields and her mother: an incredibly disheveled person tethered to an impeccably groomed animal.”

Persons Shows Mother Animal Dog Shields

Author:Margo Kaufman

“Man is a gregarious animal. He's not supposed to live in isolation. He should actually live in a community, but a community does not necessarily have to be a city. There's all the evidence in the world that the building of cities is one of the worst mistakes that mankind has ever made: For both physical and mental health we've got to be close to Mother Earth.”

Men World Should Doe Made Earth Mother Community Animal Cities Mistake Worst Mankind Building Evidence Mental Health Isolation Mother Earth Gregarious

Author:Ralph Borsodi

“Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males of the same species. There seems very little ground for claiming that the mother of young children is more peaceful, more responsible, and more thoughtful for the welfare of the human race than is her husband or brother.”

Humans Children Littles Seems Young Mother Animal Race Brother Husband Female Responsible Species Males Delight Peaceful Welfare Human Race Thoughtful Combat Mock Young Children

Author:Margaret Mead

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