Animal Quotes - page 5

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. (Mike Johanns)
As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases. View quote
Mike Rogers
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. View quote
Norman Jewison
We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased. View quote
Norman Jewison
I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments. View quote
William John Wills
I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people. View quote
Doris Day
We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists are terrorists, but these people are simply ignorant of who the real terrorists are - the companies and industries that torture literally billions of animals each year. View quote
River Phoenix
The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like an 'Animal Farm' where some members are more equal than others. How can Blair claim to regulate and direct events and still say all of us are equals? View quote
Robert Mugabe
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture. View quote
Michael Pollan
The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them. View quote
Michael Pollan
For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black beast from the abyss to be dreaded or defeated or avoided or hated - but never looked upon clearly face to face. (David Zindell)
Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency. View quote
James Madison
It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as a source of energy for mechanical effect.... The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific enquiry hitherto entered on. Its power of directing the motions of moving particles, in the demonstrated daily miracle of our human free-will, and in the growth of generation after generation of plants from a single seed, are infinitely different from any possible result of the fortuitous concurrence of atoms. View quote
William Thomson
Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Life is like animal porn, it's not for everyone. View quote
Doug Stanhope
We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair. View quote
Graham Greene
That big muscular frame of his held plenty of animal courage, but helped him to no decision when the dangers to be braved were such as could neither be knocked down nor throttled. View quote
George Eliot
Keep in mind that this appears in the same book of the Bible that approves the death sentence for a child who curses his parents, owners of oxen who injure someone through the owner's negligence, anybody who works or kindles a fire on Sunday, and anyone who has sex with an animal. View quote
Jim Butcher
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all. (Marcus Aurelius)
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and a smelly fish. View quote
José Rizal
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. View quote
August Krogh
That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say. That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your way. The world is ugly, And the people are sad. View quote
Wallace Stevens
The socialist is not a human, but an animal, because a human differs from an animal in this that he has moral values, and the Reds (socialists), as their program states, they disobey them. View quote
Janusz Korwin-Mikke