Top 1200 Animal Rescue Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I'm totally against animal cruelty. I don't have clothes, shoes or bags made from any animal products.

Although I sometimes pose as a fight animal, I'm really a flight animal.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.

Increasingly both environmentalists and animal ethicists recognize the enormous destruction caused by animal agriculture.

I'm really an animal guy. I express myself in different ways as an animal.

[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal.

Any observer is an intruder in the domain of a wild animal and must remember that the rights of that animal supersede human interests. An observer must also keep in mind that an animal's memories of one day's contact might well be reflected in the following day's behavior.

One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.

I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.

No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity, no member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me. Its why I don't eat red meat or white fish, don't give me no blue cheese. Were all members of the animal kingdom, leave your brothers and sisters in the sea.

The last season of 'Rescue Me' is going to be very sort of half and half: it's how you think 'Rescue Me' would end versus something very outside the box. And, they do it in this sort of perfect way - it's only nine episodes, you know. Very stream-lined.

True, the lion is a mighty, noble animal, but it is an animal nevertheless...

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

When I was in college, the first thing we did in acting class was to observe an animal at the zoo and become that animal. So I picked a wallaby.

Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal's physical health problems by listening to the animals.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

There's no better feeling in the world than knowing that my show played a role in stopping animal abuse or alleviating animal suffering.

Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our concern, ourselves) or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the animalness of the animal.

I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm animal or a pet, is to base animal welfare programs on the core emotion systems in the brain. My theory is that the environment animals live in should activate their positive emotions as much as possible, and not activate their negative emotions any more than necessary. If we get the animal's emotions rights, we will have fewer problem behaviors... All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.

The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

Finally, let's keep well in mind the most important lesson of the auto rescue: While government should stay away from the private sector as much as possible, markets do occasionally fail, and when they do government can play a constructive role, as it did in the case of the auto rescue.

I was always an animal lover. Even back in school and college, an animal in need of help was my responsibility.

The animal that I have worked with the most is beef cattle, so that's my favorite animal, but I like all animals.

Chris [Farley] - I would consider him a comic animal. With the emphasis on "animal."

As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory.

There are millions of animal species but, man is the only animal capable of destroying them all.

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.

As animal rights activists, we have the duty to fight for the animal to live, not die.

I had to do things to myself on the page that had been done to me in real life. I had to try and drown myself in the bath. You have to do that. And the impulse is to rescue yourself and to spare the reader, but I can't rescue myself. And why should I spare the reader when nobody spared me? It's telling people what happened.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

I'm an animal thug, I grew up eatin' animal cookies

I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.

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

I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an 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.

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments.

...as your father, my instinct is to protect you ... Other people will want to protect you too. But remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget the prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.

Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God sent them a spiritual leader to rescue them from their sins.... He was not what the Jews had expected so they considered Him a threat. Thus He was put to death.

They'd branded me like some kind of animal. Lower than an animal. A number.

You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different experience than dealing with actors. That is just difficult. It is what you expect from an animal on the set. You just run a lot of film and prompt it to do the right thing, but sit through it doing all the wrong things first. It's just unbelievably boring, frustrating and painstaking to shoot.

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

And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal.

But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal.

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.

When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.

It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.

I hit rock bottom before I even went there. Actually, prison was the rescue mission that God had put on me. He sent out his angels to rescue me. In prison, he protected me the whole time I was in there, and it was just for me to get my will power back, to get my strength back, get my focus together.

Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.

As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory. People are being forced, to confront the realities. At the same time, we have an ever-growing understanding of the intelligence and emotional capacities of animals and an acceptance of the principle that animal cruelty is a moral problem.

Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.

Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.