Top 1200 Animal Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
I was learning to track rhinoceroses in Africa and tracked right up on an animal that really I thought was going to kill me.
Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.
Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.
TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.
My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.
If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.
I adore recipes that make use of one cut of meat or a whole animal to create a complex dish, loaded with flavour.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
Kitten is in the animal world what the rosebud is in the garden; the one the most beautiful of all young creatures, the other the loveliest of all opening flowers.
The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defense, should one think of killing any animal.
I have always thought that humanity was animal-like. The Confucian theory was man could be improved, but I'm not sure he can be. He can be trained; he can be disciplined.
Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.
Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization.
Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.
Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.
The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
I hope that people who don't live with animals will appreciate that each animal is a unique individual with a rich inner life.
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared.
Is an animal less or more intelligent because it lives without clothes, central heating, and well, atom bombs ?
The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.
Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have to write.
Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.
Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?' - The Magician's Nephew
Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to.
The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.
For a large number of problems, there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied.
Not the stars, not the farthest solar systems, not the millions of different species of animal life, but the child is the greatest of God's creations.
I've seen Animal House two and a half times now at sneak previews with a real audience, and the reaction was great.
In Egypt, the cats...afford evidence that animal nature is not altogether intractable, but that when well-treated they are good at remembering kindness.
Actually I do believe we need a proper licensed regime that works better and is much more focused on animal welfare.
The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.
Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics.
What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.
'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see anything post that happening without that.
I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn't been cooked.
I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
Not only is fur cruel, it's also totally gross. I mean, who wants to wear the skin of an abused animal? Not me!
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
The scariest animal is without doubt human beings. We are the only species that decimates the very environment that we require to live.
If I could adopt any zoo animal, it would be a giraffe. I have always loved giraffes. They are so graceful and beautiful to watch.
The trees and plants show respect for each other by the way they live in harmony. This also applies to the animal kingdom.
The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
I would absolutely commit to holding a vote on the hunting ban - I think it is not proven to be in the interests of animal welfare whatsoever.
The panda is a funny, lovable animal, which defends its territory well. It's strong but calm. It suits me perfectly.
The devil is not abroad at night in the form of a cat or a wolf or any other animal. He lives eternally in the hearts of men.
But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.
Man is the only animal for whom his own stupid existence is a problem which he has to try in vain to solve.
I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defence, should one think of killing any animal.
The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of barbarism and violence to one of order and peace.
I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.
Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without any politics at all.
Our animal friends’ non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis.
Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes.
Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.
