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Animals Quotes

"The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves."

"The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves."

Lewis Tappan, American Businessman

Animals, African

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"I'm afraid of animals."

"I'm afraid of animals."

Joanna Noelle Levesque, American Musician

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"Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing."

"Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing."

Louis Leakey, British Scientist

Animals, Care, Sleep

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"Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater."

"Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater."

Michael Jackson, American Musician

Animals, Theater

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"If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr."

"If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr."

Martin Delany, American Soldier

Animals, Affection, Favorite

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"Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think."

"Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think."

Daniel Pinkwater, American Author

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"He is a cat, Miss Lancaster. Asking him such questions is an exercise in futility."

"He is a cat, Miss Lancaster. Asking him such questions is an exercise in futility."

Jim Butcher, American Author

Animals, Cats, Curiosity, Behavior, Mystery

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"Most animals are built to withstand one bad year."

"Most animals are built to withstand one bad year."

John Hunter, British Surgeon

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"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?"

"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?"

Isadora Duncan, American Dancer

Animals, Earth, Living

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"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."

"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."

Paul Valery, French Poet

Animals, Books, Content, Enemies

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"Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid."

"Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are."

"Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are."

Bernadette Peters, American Actress

Animals, Healing

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"Cats do not hunt seals. They would hunt them if they knew what seals and where to find them. But they do not know, so it's okay."

"Cats do not hunt seals. They would hunt them if they knew what seals and where to find them. But they do not know, so it's okay."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Animals, Humor, Cats, Nature, Ignorance

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"I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots."

"I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Animals, Cat, Description, Appearance

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"One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it."

"One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it."

Faith Ford, American Actress

Animals, Care, Kids

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"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through."

"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through."

Jules Verne, French Author

Animals, Cats, Earth, Spirits

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"Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet."

"Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet."

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, French Novelist

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"The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong."

"The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong."

Dick Van Patten, American Actor

Animals, Friends, Loyalty, Wrong

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"So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper."

"So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper."

Maria Menounos, American Actress

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"Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities."

"Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities."

Chuck Jones, American Director

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"Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated."

"Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated."

Charles Nicole, French Scientist

Animals, Disease, Observation

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"I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand."

"I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand."

Ulrich Walter, German Astronaut

Animals, Appearance, Being, May

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"Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions."

"Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions."

John Podhoretz, American Writer

Animals, Comedians, Now

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"A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?"

"A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?"

James Hogg, Scottish Poet

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"Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first."

"Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first."

Clarence Day, American Author

Animals, Ants, First

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"I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them."

"I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them."

Tracy Chapman, American Musician

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"Animals are thinking, feeling creatures. They're sensitive."

"Animals are thinking, feeling creatures. They're sensitive."

Loretta Swit, American Actress

Animals, Feeling, Thinking

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"Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being."

"Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being."

Walter Gilbert, American Scientist

Animals, Being, Will

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"The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder."

"The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder."

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss Author

Animals, Difference, Murder

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"I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them."

"I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them."

Kent McCord, American Actor

Animals, Land, Rivers, Trees

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"I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals."

"I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals."

Mary Wesley, British Novelist

Animals, Children, Cities, Respect

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"Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight."

"Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight."

Orison Swett Marden, American Writer

Animals, Cowards, Eye, Obstacles

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"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."

"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."

Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Poet

Animals, Politicians, Scientists

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"It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend."

"It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend."

Asa Gray, American Scientist

Animals, Plants

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"All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification."

"All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification."

Bruce Jackson, American Public Servant

Animals, Justification, Passion

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"What greater gift than the love of a cat."

"What greater gift than the love of a cat."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Animals, Love, Cats, Joy, Affection

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"The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat."

"The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat."

Grace Slick, American Musician

Animals, Argument

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"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals."

"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals."

George Orwell, British Author

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"The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans."

"The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans."

Chuck Jones, American Director

Animals, Individuality

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"I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where they put down thousands upon thousands of animals every day."

"I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where they put down thousands upon thousands of animals every day."

Will Estes, American Actor

Animals, Cities, Day, Growing up

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"I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished."

"I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished."

Black Elk, American Leader

Animals, Dancing, Horses, World

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"For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here."

"For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here."

Lennart Nilsson, Swedish Photographer

Animals, University

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"My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today."

"My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today."

Charles Nicole, French Scientist

Animals, First, Today

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"I accredit animals for keeping me going when times were bad."

"I accredit animals for keeping me going when times were bad."

Kelly Bishop, American Actress

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"Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the most valuable plants of every description."

"Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the most valuable plants of every description."

George Grey, New Zealander Leader

Animals, Plants, Newzealander

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"When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand."

"When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand."

Lester B. Pearson, Canadian Politician

Animals, Sight, Sound, Voice

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"The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment."

"The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment."

Robert Falcon Scott, British Explorer

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"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."

"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move."

"If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move."

Antonio Banderas, Spanish Actor

Animals, Cats, Dogs, May

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"Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal."

"Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal."

Don Van Vliet, American Artist

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