Top 1200 Animal Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

The ruling ethos of Seattle is forlorn apology for our animal impulses.

Reality TV is a totally different animal than the infomercial world.

Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.

I have three dogs, a cat, fish. I'm a huge animal lover. They're amazing.

The one thing that made me somewhat of an animal is I didn't have anything growing up.

Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.

I read somewhere, one, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion. I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside of me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, above all, towards life. And as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.

I just don't have the desire no more, I don't have the stomach to do it no more. I don't even kill insects in my house. I just don't kill anything no more. I used to kill pigeons, rip their heads off, 'You dirty rat pigeon!' I don't even have the heart to kill an animal no more. I just changed my whole life in general. That probably could have changed the way I fight.

You know the animal that kills the most people in the world? The Hepatitis Bee.

On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside.

I seem to be landing a lot of roles with animal interactions, which is amazing.

Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?

I'm in love with language again because Luke B. Goebel is not afraid to take us back through the gullet of loss into the chaos of words. Someone burns a manuscript in Texas; someone's speed sets a life on fire; a heart is beaten nearly to death, the road itself is the trip, a man is decreated back to his animal past--better, beyond ego, beautiful, and look: there's an American dreamscape left. There's a reason to go on.

The ant is a collectively intelligent and individually stupid animal; man is the opposite.

We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual, and perhaps cannot be wholly expelled; like the worms which, even in life and health, occupy our bodies. Possibly we may withdraw from it, but never change its nature. I fear that it may enjoy a certain health of its own; that we may be well, yet not pure.

It's more expensive for me to make my shoes. I don't use animal-based glues or fish-based glues. So that costs me more. And, you know, like anything in life - mass marketing of anything - mass manufacturing of anything costs less.

Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says "no."

There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human cancer as animal protein.

As everyone knows, I am a bit of a party animal - Ibiza, baby!

We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

I am not willing to let the market-place determine the future of the animal kingdom.

Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

I don't want to make an 'Animal House.' I'm not interested in making 'Ghost Busters.'

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

Like an animal, cancer sleeps, prowls, hibernates, turns surly or placid.

You..." The centaur's eyes flared like a cornered animal's. "You should be dead.

As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.

Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings depend for life. In my view, the animal rights movement is, at its core, a movement about ending violence to all sentient beings. It is a movement that seeks fundamental justice for all. It is an emerging peace movement that does not stop at the arbitrary line that separates humans from nonhumans.

Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.

The lifeblood of Mercy For Animals is our undercover investigations of animal agriculture.

There has been so much underestimating of animal cognition that to perhaps overestimate it, as I probably do, is probably a healthy reaction.

When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

In case you were wondering, my spirit animal is a duck billed platypus.

I've seen Animal Collective live, and I suffered permanent hearing loss from that show!

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

I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They'd eaten each other.

So it was true! A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.

We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.

You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

I'm training like an animal. Nobody trains harder than me.

I'm the alpha parent most of the time, but bedtime is a completely different animal.

If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand.

For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.

Truth is like a wild animal; let it loose and it will defend itself!

After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.

'Animal Man' and 'Swamp Thing' have so many commonalities in tone and mood.

Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.

My dream is that people will come to view eating an animal as cannibalism.

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

There is an animal inside me, clutching fast to my heart, a huge crab.

Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games.

I read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really.

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.