Animal Quotes

I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.

I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defence, should one think of killing any animal.

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.

Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

The best days I have are usually days where I'm out in the woods and something happens, like I see an amazing animal like a fox, or I get a glimpse of a wild pig or something that I never see. Or crazy things happen.

People should try eating no animal products for just ONE DAY a week.

If any player has a bad game it's there in the back of your mind in the next game. There's always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it.

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds.

Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.

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

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

We have people who are healers and those who posses a certain animal magnetism.

Man has been adjudged a social animal.

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live.

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

I just love dogs, and there really is no better companion than an animal.

Man as a pure animal does not exist.

It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium.

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.

Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us.

Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.

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 it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.