Animals Sayings & Quotes
These animals sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behaviour of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections? - Elizabeth Janeway
Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was molded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When man learns to understand and control his own behaviour as well as he is learning to understand and control the behaviour of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. - Ayn Rand
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the cross-hairs of a gun-sight. And after I've finished 'shooting,' my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy. I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans. - James 'Jimmy' Stewart
A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. - Leo Tolstoy
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us. - Malcolm De Chazal
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. - Sir William Osler
The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects. [The Social Life of Insects] - W. C. Allee
Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this. - Adam Smith
The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air. - Sir Rabindranath Tagore
Animals are my friends. and I don't eat my friends. - George Bernard Shaw
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. - Plato