Top 1200 Animal Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

I don't have any children, but I can leave my land to an animal sanctuary. That is what I dream about, not bags, not shoes.

I think Rafael Nadal is pretty spectacular. I have a feeling he might be part animal.

In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

We all get so excited about the big events, but when there's an animal involved, it's ten times harder.

It's difficult to get ready to face a player like Cristiano Ronaldo. He's a goal animal.

Animal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery.

You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

Old MacDonald had a farm-until America's corporate animal factories plowed it under.

How we act with each other really reveals our most animal instincts.

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

There needs to be clearer communication for the public avout how valuable it [animal testing] is

When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.

It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

I am a huge animal lover. I prefer to rescue any of the pets that I have had.

I am an avid supporter of PETA and all animals as well as animal rights programs.

There's something about watching an animal that puts you in contact with where we came from and what we're still a part of.

I am not, and have never been, a supporter of cockfighting or any other forms of animal cruelty.

The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity — even under the most difficult circumstances — to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal

Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did it without ever reducing his characters to mouthpieces or his books to tracts. His concern was always what it is to be a human being—that is, how to be an actual *person*, someone whose life is informed by values and principles, instead of just an especially shrewd kind of self-preserving animal.

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

I have pictures of me feeding deer and possums with baby bottles. I am such an animal lover.

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. Each animal is an end in itself.

Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

Since the cruel killing of cows and other animal have commenced, I have anxiety for the future generation.

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

I think the unconditional love you get from an animal, especially a dog, is better than anything else.

I don't think rodeo is cruel at all. Bullriding is the only man-animal event that makes sense.

In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention.

Anger is like an intoxicant; it reduces man and degrades him to the level of an animal.

...It is a legal requirement to carry out animal testing to ensure they are safe and effective

We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.

The thing is, you throw brains and souls into an animal and stir, you don’t really know what you’re going to get.

In my case, I give a lot to animal welfare because I think that's pretty neglected in America.

I am a dog and a cat lover; doesn't matter which animal it is but dogs are cuter at times.

If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.

Personal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is.

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.

I discovered that funny animal pictures - memes - would get a lot of likes and shares.

Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts.

From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.

From inanimate object, to microorganism, to plant, to insect, to animal, to human, there is an evolving level of intelligence.

He [Astaire] was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.