Animal Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.”
– Nora Ephron

“If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port that will let them dock or a land in which they can live in peace. The real solution, of course, is to preserve the wild nature that created these animals and has the power to sustain them. But if it is really true that we are inevitably moving towards a world in which mountain gorillas can survive only in zoos, then we must ask whether it is really better for them to live in artificial environments of our design than not to be born at all.”
– Peter Singer

“Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.”
– Pythagoras

“For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.”
– Pythagoras

“All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.”
– Richard Dawkins

“Our intuitions on animals are incoherent; the same people who condemn branding of cattle may dock the ears and tails of their dogs. The law is of no help–in the eyes of the law animals are property, either private property or community property. The Animal Welfare Act, reflecting irrational social prejudice, does not consider rats, mice, or domestic farm animals to be animals; for the purposes of the act, a dead dog used in research is an animal, a live mouse is not. And traditional moral philosophy is of no help either, since for most of its history it was virtually mute on the subject of our obligations to other creatures. More has been written on this subject, in fact, in the past ten years than in the previous three thousand.”
– Richard Sherlock

“To err is human, to purr, feline” 
– Robert Byrne

“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.”  
– Robert Lynd

“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” 
– Roger Caras

“I know at last what distinguishes man from animals: financial worries.”
– Romain Roland

“It is in hunting that the special relationship with animals is clearest. In Siberian belief, animals are thought to give themselves of their own free will to a hunter who respects them. Animals are equal in status to their hunters, and in myths often change into humans or marry them. The brown bear, considered to be Lord of the Forest, has a soul-force of immense power which can be dangerous, but can also be used for healing. Even today, injuries are healed by stroking the affected part with a bear’s paw or rubbing it with bear’s fat. A bear hunt is surrounded by taboos, and in many areas the soul of a killed bear must be appeased by an elaborate rite. For example, the eyes are sewn up to prevent the bear from pursuing the hunter.”
– Roy G. Willis

“…he will be our friend for always and always and always.” 
– Rudyard Kipling

“The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.”
– Rudyard Kipling

“The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.”
– Saint John Chrysostom

“With an endless assortment of children and animals living under one roof, there was always some absurd crisis that gave comic relief to my problems.”
– Sally Jessy Raphael

“A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.” 
– Samuel Butler

“The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.” 
– Samuel Butler

“You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, ‘My God, you’re right! I never would’ve thought of that!”
– Samuel Butler

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”
– Seneca

“A Horse! A Horse! my kingdom for a horse!” 
– Shakespeare

“All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.” 
– Shakespeare

“If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.”
– St. Francis Of Assisi

“Most pets display so many humanlike traits and emotions it’s easy to forget they’re not gifted with the English language and then get snubbed when we talk to them and they don’t say anything back.”
– Stephenie Geist

“Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives.” 
– Sue Murphy

“Why are we so concerned about whether other animals are like human beings or not? Because we are worried about whether we should consider them kinfolk of ours, relatives. If they are relatives of ours, then we should treat them with more respect than if they are not.”
– Sydney M. Lamb

“Animals are just pure, uncomplicated entities of creation from God. They live like the Maasai do in Kenya–for each day is forever to them and the “Now” is what they live in. You can get aggravated with your pets and yell at them, but in a matter of minutes they are licking your hand again in love.”
– Sylvia Browne

“Anyone would be hard pressed to put forth that animals are not perfect creations of God; they are just different types of creations. Humankind has always compared other creations with themselves, thinking always that we are the highest of God’s creations. For this reason many humans don’t think that other living organisms have souls, but how do we supposedly know that? Do we presume to know God so well that we can say that souls don’t exist in other living forms? Just because God supposedly gave us dominion over all living things (according to the Book of Genesis in the Bible), does that mean we can kill and mistreat them? Could not the word “dominion” also mean a responsibility to care for and ensure the survival of all living things?”
– Sylvia Browne

“Animals are like autistic savants. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that animals might actually be autistic savants. Animals have special talents normal people don’t, the same way autistic people have special talents normal people don’t; and at least some animals have special forms of genius normal people don’t, the same way some autistic savants have special forms of genius. I think most of the time animal genius probably happens for the same reason autistic genius does: a difference in the brain autistic people share with animals.”
– Temple Grandin

“There is not an animal on the earth, nor a flying creature on two wings, but they are people like unto you.”
– The Koran

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