Animals Quotes

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

~ Julia Child

There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.

~ Gary L. Francione

I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.

~ Karl Pilkington

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

~ Thornton Wilder

I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil.

~ Jane Goodall

The amazing thing about the sea is that it is perhaps the last truly unexplored frontier; most oceanographers estimate that only about ninety-five per cent of the sea has been studied. Meanwhile, the oceans are believed to contain more animals than exist on land, a majority of which have never been discovered.

~ David Grann

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

~ Stephen Covey

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

~ Jane Goodall

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

~ Michael Morpurgo

We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a loving cat or dog from an animal shelter instead of buying animals from breeders or pet shops.

~ Amy Jackson

Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade.

~ Paul Watson

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

~ Haile Selassie

I really want a pet, and I really love animals.

~ Aurora

People didn't think animals thought or remembered or had minds! They most certainly do: any pet owner knows more than a lot of scientists about animals.

~ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.

~ Kirsty Gallacher

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

~ Tony Snow

I was raised in a strict Southern household in Lexington, South Carolina, and I remember sneaking off to watch 'Pet Cemetery' as a kid. After seeing those animals reincarnate, I screamed and couldn't sleep for weeks, but watched it again and again.

~ Jessica Stroup

Millions of animals are euthanized every year because shelters can't find homes for them. Buying animals from pet stores also tends to support puppy and cat mills, many of which have deplorable conditions for animals, which shouldn't be tolerated.

~ Laura Mennell

Pet stores just sell their animals.

~ Booboo Stewart

We have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they've become. They didn't have that fear of us 30,000 years ago. We didn't have gunpowder; we had rocks. Wolves would have seen us as lunch, and we were weak and slow and tasty.

~ Bruce Cameron

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

~ Joan Jett

The benefits of a healthier diet are far-reaching because they also equate to fewer animals being bred into inhumane factory farm conditions and fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

~ Michael Greger

It simply feels right to me to blend the glittery delights of New York City with a largely raw vegan diet - with the soul-deep conviction that animals are not ours to eat, wear, exploit or experiment on.

~ Victoria Moran

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

~ Adam Smith

I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.

~ Sam Simon

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Mainly I'm a vegan because I like animals, and I don't want to be involved in their suffering. Also, it's better for my health and for the environment.

~ Moby

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

~ David Attenborough

What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

~ Matthew Scully

I try to keep a positive intention and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful. I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.

~ Russell Simmons

Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.

~ Doris Day

I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.

~ David Sedaris

I love using my imagination. I love writing about animals.

~ Mary Pope Osborne

They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.

~ Henry Walter Bates

When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.

~ Quvenzhane Wallis

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

~ Gertrude Stein

Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock.

~ Frans De Waal