Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Boris Pasternak

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

Blaise Pascal

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

Alexander McCall Smith

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

Donald Curtis

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

Dwight L. Moody

More depends on my walk than talk.

Andrew Shue

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

Alice Munro

The constant happiness is curiosity.

Anne Lamott

You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

Ben Bradshaw

Anyone who is responsible for an animal will have to do all that is reasonable to meet the needs of their animal.

Becky Wilson

People are well-intentioned. They hate to see an animal starve.

Linda Catalano

After seven days, if the animal is OK, we put it up for adoption. It can stay as long as it is healthy and we have room. If the animal is killed, we may have to pick up the body and hold it in our freezer for a while in case the owner calls here looking for it.

Chris Jackson

The naming and shaming will probably prove to be the greatest punishment. He's drawn attention to himself with some of the more extreme elements of the animal rights movement.

Ben Bradshaw

Once the legislation is enacted our law will be worthy of our reputation as a nation of animal lovers. This bill is aimed at those few who do not properly fulfil their responsibilities for the animals in their charge.

Dr. Etienne

The more it spreads in birds internationally, the more opportunities it has to interact with animal and human hosts, increasing the chances it could evolve into a human pandemic virus. No one knows if this will happen, or when, so it is critical to prepare for a potential human flu pandemic at the same time that we are working to prevent the spread of avian flu in birds.

Gregory Colbert

Anteater -- who could have ever thought that such an animal could be so expressive? It's all in their eyes. There are so many great storytellers other than humans.

Ken Peterson

Any major aquarium opening now worth its salt has a pretty substantial conservation footing, and it should, ... I don't think you can have live animals and be telling the story of marine life and not be concerned and alarmed about what's happening to creatures in the wild. We in the aquarium world know too much to do too little.

John Katz

Any dog is capable of biting. When you're getting a dog, you're getting an animal with teeth. They are naturally predatory creatures.

Sharon Reader

The money from the land sale pays my mortgage. I know other people who are doing the same thing.

Minya Oh

It was a landmark for the hip-hop generation.

Bob Dylan

There's no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin

Elif Safak

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

Eleanor Roosevelt

...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

Pattie Boyd

I have led an exceptional life in some ways, yes. I mean, I've been very lucky. I seem to have had a gift for landing in the right place at the right time.

Stephen Jay Gould

I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a species. In other words, I reject a racial classification of humans for the same reasons that I prefer not to divide into subspecies the prodigiously variable West Indian land snails that form the subject of my own research.

Sgt. Turner

We searched air, land and water until 1 a.m., then started back at 7 a.m..

Jakob Nielsen

You don't just want to just shoot them off into e-mail land.