When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see anything post that happening without that.

People have always been animals when it comes to sex. But since the Internet, it's become really out of control, in my opinion.

There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.

Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!

History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.

The island is named Oooguruk, an Inupiaq word meaning 'bearded seal,' an animal plentiful on the shores of Alaska's North Slope.

I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.

I think there's always going to be a problem dealing with firearms, with knives. It's the animal we are that cause the problems.

There is no way that the heart-lung machine could have been devised and developed other than through studies on living creatures

Im an animal love, but I don't have the smarts to be a vet, or the heart to have been a vet cause I cry over any wounded animal.

'Why' is a question no animal can ask, because both the question and answers require speech. Have you ever seen an animal shrug?

I try to be vegan... I really, really try. I don't eat any red meat, and the whole animal thing really upsets me, so I've tried.

I'm an animal with you," he murmured. "I want to mark you. I want to possess you so completely there's no separation between us.

We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.

'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants.

When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.

Human creativity and innovation is going to make the exploitation of animals look not only inhumane but obsolete and cumbersome.

Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

There are people who have great skills, who do great things, but don't embody the whole animal that is the fight game like I do.

Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together.

Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them.

This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.

Animals can seem more pure. Without complication, I mean, animals are selfless. What animals do for us, they do out of instinct.

American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.

There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

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

Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.

All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.

Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?

Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.

More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people.

Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

When I was an animal I evolved through selfishness. Now that I am a man my evolution can be achieved only through self-sacrifice.

I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.

I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage; the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.

But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.

I'm an animal love, but I don't have the smarts to be a vet, or the heart to have been a vet cause I cry over any wounded animal.

Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship - enjoyment at a distance.

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.

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