Animals Quotes

You wouldn't walk with your underpants stuck in your bottom, you'd adjust them. So don't treat life like ill-fitting wondering underpants, adjust it to be comfortable again

~ E.e.d. Horton

Something was wrong, and while Mr. Bones could scarcely imagine what that thing was, Henry's sadness was beginning to have an effect on him, and within a matter of minutes he had taken on the boy's sadness as his own. Such is the was with dogs.

~ Paul Auster

Pets bring vital energy to our homes and lives. Pets communicate many messages about love and connection. Care tenderly for all pets throughout their precious lives. The interspecies dance of love softens and expands the heart.

~ Laura Staley

The people knew then that Greg wasn't a monster, just a hungry animal.

~ Kayec Jones

If you never leave me, I won't eat your stuff. - Belle, Dog Only Knows

~ Terry Kaye

If black and white are too different and separate calories zebras wouldn't have both.

~ Mohamed Nur Hashi

The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

~ Yann Martel

My person says I don’t understand cause and effect. That’s not true, I get it: roll in the mud, you get the bath. But what shedoesn’t understand is, sometimes it’s just plain worth it. - Belle, Dog Only Knows

~ Terry Kaye

But I'm not ready to let Winn-Dixie go.

~ Kate Dicamillo

The first commandment of dog behavior: Thou shalt not hump. Thou shalt especially not hump in public. Thou shalt not hump thy neighbor’s wife, thy neighbor’s leg, or thy neighbor’s Jack Russell Terrier. - Belle, Dog Only Knows

~ Terry Kaye

When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don’t be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We might treat a rabbit as a pet or become emotionally attached to a goose, but we had come from cities and supermarkets, where flesh was hygienically distanced from any resemblance to living creatures. A shrink-wrapped pork chop has a sanitized, abstract appearance that has nothing whatever to do with the warm, mucky bulk of a pig. Out here in the country there was no avoiding the direct link between death and dinner.

~ Peter Mayle

Animal? As in lion and tiger and chipmunk? Who's he kidding?

~ Judith Whitelock Mcinerney

The how and why wild, little animals landed up with people will probably never be known for sure.

~ P.j. Nel

... because nobody wants to see a small creature left to suffer or left by itself out in the bushes.

~ P.j. Nel

When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits - not animals.

~ Winston Churchill

Opposable thumbs are overrated.

~ Terry Kaye

Dogs are angels full of poop.

~ Oliver Gaspirtz

From horses we may learn not only about the horse itself but also about animals in general, indeed about ourselves and about life as a whole.

~ George Gaylord Simpson

the doves, as we know, must be killed according to the law before Mary’s purification can be acknowledged and ratified. Any ironic or irreverent disciple of Voltaire will find it difficult to resist making the obvious remark that, things being what they are, purity can be maintained only so long as there are innocent creatures to sacrifice in this world, whether turtledoves, lambs, or others.

~ José Saramago

Honor is the only thing that separates us from animals.

~ Peter Tieryas

He rocked her against him. No idea what I'm going to do with you. She didn't know what he was going to do with her either, but she hoped it was good.

~ Jill Shalvis

But it was not the poor who ate the zoo animals in Paris.

~ Ceridwen Dovey

The buffalo that in nature looks healthy and silken, in a zoo is a mangy creature with matted mane and dirty skin. Can those who see buffalo in captivity ever conceive how beautiful they can be? What a pity that most young people instead of seeing on animal in nature - which is worth a hundred in any zoo- must derive their knowledge of God's creatures from their appearances in prison. If we cannot perceive any right proportion of man's moral nature by looking at prisoners in a jail, how do we manage to think that we know all about an animal by gazing at him penned in a cage?

~ Dhan Gopal Mukerji

To my way of thinking there's something wrong, or missing, with any person who hasn't got a soft spot in their heart for an animal of some kind. With most folks the dog stands highest as man's friend, then comes the horse, with others the cat is liked best as a pet, or a monkey is fussed over; but whatever kind of animal it is a person likes, it's all hunkydory so long as there's a place in the heart for one or a few of them.

~ Will James

When Mother had told me that animals found quiet, unexposed places to die, I had always imagined they knew they were dying, and accepted it, almost gracefully. Now I saw that this wasn't so at all: they crept into corners in the hope of surviving, they only knew they were weakened and exposed, easy prey, and their instinct was to find a hidden place and try to outlive whatever it was they were suffering. It had been a mistake to imagine they wanted to be alone, to die in peace. Animals have no knowledge of death; for them, death is the unexpected end of life, something they resist by instinct, for no good reason. In that sense, their existence has an almost mechanical quality.

~ John Burnside

Animals are inspirational. They don’t know how to lie. They are natural forces.

~ Charles Bukowski

Every wild thing is in tune with its surroundings, awake to its fate and in absolute harmony with the planet. Their attention is focused totally outwards. Humans, on the other hand, tend to focus introspectively on their own lives too often, brooding and magnifying problems that the animal kingdom would not waste a millisecond of energy upon. To most people, the magnificent order of the natural world where life and death actually mean something has become unrecognizable.

~ Lawrence Anthony

Of the animals I saw, I could write volumes. All were wild; for the Great Race's mechanised culture had long since done away with domestic beasts, while food was wholly vegetable or synthetic.

~ H.p. Lovecraft

Through the metal bars of the jungle gym, she watches two gray squirrels chase each other around a tree. Around and around and around. So gratuitous.

~ Thomas Pierce

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals... They are not our brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life...

~ Henry Beston

I feel at ease and, in an indefinable way, at home, when dolphins are around. I now know when they are nearby before they appear. I dream after they leave.

~ Virginia Coyle

All the wild beasts have been extinct for years, but it's perfectly possible to synthesize them autobiogenically. On the other hand, why be bound to what was once produced by natural evolution? The spokesman for surrealist zoology was most eloquent - we should populate our preserves with bold, original conceptions, not slavish imitations, we should forge the New, not plagiarize the Old.

~ Stanisław Lem

Animales depend on us to take care of them.

~ Angela Cervantes

Such a nice ring…Dead Furry Friends Animal Shelter…so warm and comforting.

~ Angela Cervantes

Our sentimentality toward animals is a sure sign of the disdain in which we hold them. Sentimentality is nothing but the infinitely degraded form of bestiality, the racist commiseration.

~ Jean Baudrillard

Alma had been falling in love with a crazy terrier that thought “stay” mean to take off like a rocket. Gaby knew he’d already taken off with Alma’s heart.

~ Angela Cervantes

There's an exact moment for leaping into the lives of wild animals. You have to feel their lives first, how they fit the world around them. It's like the beat of music. Their eyes, the sounds they make, their head, movements, their feet and their whole body, the closeness of things around them - all this and more make up the way they perceive and adjust to their world.

~ Richard O'barry

He was a squirrel. Could he be a superhero, too?

~ Kate Dicamillo

Farmers today keep themselves in ignorance of the needs and true nature of pigs precisely because to know would put their conscience in a terrible bind. Wilful ignorance of this kind is no better than complicity.

~ Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson