Pet Quotes - Page 39

• In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

  C. S. Lewis

  Animal, Choices, Levels

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• I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great empathy for your subjects.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Empathy, Feelings

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• We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Sympathy, Animal, Voice

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• We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Heart, Animal, Men

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• Men will be just to men when they are kind to animals.

  Henry Bergh

  Animal, Men, Ethics

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• Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

  Henry Bergh

  Mean, Animal, Ethics

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• To me, a philosopher who says that the distinction between human and nonhuman depends on whether you have a white or a black skin, and a philosopher who says that the distinction between human and nonhuman depends on whether or not you know the difference between a subject and a predicate, are more alike than they are unlike.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Animal, White, Differences

  J M Coetzee (2015). “Elizabeth Costello”, p.111, Random House

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• Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.

  Francis of Assisi

  Loss, Earth, Beast

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• I grew up around animals [seven horses, dogs and now a pet goldfish named Leila] and I'm rebelling against them not having a natural existence.

  Isabel Lucas

  Dog, Horse, Animal

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• My idea of a perfect pet is a really, really big dog! Huge!

  Emily VanCamp

  Dog, Ideas, Perfect

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• I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

  Yvonne Craig

  Growing Up, Animal, People

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• Our spending priorities are clearly in question when we are increasing bond indebtedness on pet projects such as museums while our infrastructure is allegedly failing. Mississippians are spending more on basic needs than ever. They don’t need their state government making that worse.

  Chris McDaniel

  Museums, Government, Priorities

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• They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.

  Liane Moriarty

  Life, Littles, Grudge

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• I fed my Yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21,0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female Yak. I made it my pet after that.

  Brian Blessed

  Sweet, Chocolate, Blonde

  "'Pamela Anderson is as impressive in her own way as the Dalai Lama': Brian Blessed on booming great form" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. March 1, 2013.

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• Why have a pet hate? Why should it be confined? My hate is both wide ranging and total.

  Richard Ayoade

  Hate, Should, Confined

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• No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.

  Murray Banks

  Animal, Needs, World

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• I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.

  Christine McVie

  Dog, Animal, Looking For Love

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• I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.

  Gary Larson

  Believe, Animal, Thinking

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• Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.

  Gerald Durrell

  Love You, Animal, Wife

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• It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.

  Mickey Rivers

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• Animals are just pure, uncomplicated entities of creation from God. They live like the Maasai do in Kenya-for each day is forever to them and the "Now" is what they live in. You can get aggravated with your pets and yell at them, but in a matter of minutes they are licking your hand again in love.

  Sylvia Browne

  Animal, Hands, Forever

  Sylvia Browne (2009). “All Pets Go To Heaven: The Spiritual Lives of the Animals We Love”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

  Douglas Coupland

  Cat, Double Standard, Size

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Many cats are the death of the mouse.

  Kaspar Hauser

  Cat, Mice

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• Just watching my cats can make me happy.

  Paula Cole

  Cat, Make Me Happy

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• I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets.

  Kinky Friedman

  Cat, Emotion, Affair

  Kinky Friedman (1993). “Kinky Friedman: Three Complete Mysteries : Greenwich Killing Time/a Case of Lone Star/When the Cat's Away”, Outlet

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