Animal Quotes - Page 35

• With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things

  Ian Dunbar

  Crazy, Stupid, People

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• I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good.

  Ivan Reitman

  House, Stripes, Proud

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• Human identity is fundamentally an illusion; it’s an evolutionary overhang which lets us function as coherent self-aware animals. But, on a deep level, we have no real evidence that when we wake up we’re the same person who went to sleep.

  Sarah Newton

  Real, Sleep, Self

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• Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable … I am not one of those people. If I had a motto, it would probably be Herd thither, me hither.

  Erik Naggum

  People, Together, World

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• Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.

  Carl Ludwig

  Tasks, Body, Function

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• One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom.

  Gerald Brenan

  Happiness, Happy, Country

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• A single kind of red cell is supposed to have an enormous number of different substances on it, and in the same way there are substances in the serum to react with many different animal cells. In addition, the substances which match each kind of cell are different in each kind of serum. The number of hypothetical different substances postulated makes this conception so uneconomical that the question must be asked whether it is the only one possible. ... We ourselves hold that another, simpler, explanation is possible.

  Karl Landsteiner

  Numbers, Cells, Blood

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• A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their composition. The mind in beast and bird, as in man, is the main thing.

  William Henry Hudson

  Equality, Men, Bird

  William Henry Hudson (1923). “Collected Works”

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• It's not a beard, it's an animal I've trained to sit very still.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Beard

  "Bewilderness in New York". Comedy album by Bill Bailey, 2002.

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• I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Time, Lying, Cat

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• To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man of ideas appears out of his reason. They alone gave reason.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Ideas, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1601, Delphi Classics

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• Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Vegetables, Four Elements, Water

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• Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.

  Bernadette Peters

  Giving Up, Home, Attention And Love

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• Throughout your career people will try to distract you. Some will scream at you, others will say things behind your back, and a few feral animals will literally try to throw their stiletto heel in in your lane and trip you. Keep your eyes straight ahead and just run your race.

  Sharyn Alfonsi

  Inspirational, Graduation, Running

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• I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

  William John Wills

  Ignorance, Vices, Totems

  William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.45, London : R. Bentley

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• As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities where I'd resided my adult life.

  David Mixner

  Spiritual, Adventure, Healing

  "At Home With Myself in a World of AIDS" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2011.

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• Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Determination, Political, Energy

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• I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.

  Victoria Pratt

  Character, Thinking, Irrational Fear

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• There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information, it is but a tiny fraction of the diversity that [according to the theory] actually lived in the past. There are well over a million species living today and . . [it is] possible to predict how many species ought to be in our fossil record. That number is at least 100 times the number we have found.

  David M. Raup

  Past, Numbers, Diversity

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• There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Mammals, Doe

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• Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.

  George Ayittey

  People, Hippo, Wild Animal

  "Obama’s Victory Shames Africa" by George Ayittey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2009.

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• In Yellowstone National Park there are more ‘do not feed the animals’ signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.

  Natalie Jeremijenko

  Motivation, Inspiration, Yellowstone

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• To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.

  Brigid Brophy

  Equality, Should Have, Years

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• You need eyes that tell the dog who watches them what you are feeling toward it, even though the message may be hidden from the outside world. Above all, you nee telepathy so that the dog thinks with you. These things are not always born in people. They can be developed as any sense or gift can be developed. That is, providing the person wishes to develop them is honest in mind, because with animals you cannot cheat.

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Dog, Eye, Thinking

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• I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world.

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Believe, Talking, World

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