Famous Quotes & Sayings

Imelda May

At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.

William McNamara

I started volunteering at an animal shelter, and little by little, my life started getting better. I think that is the secret. It is just being on a mission that is something bigger than me and it's thankless. You do that because it is thankless, and I am not looking for anybody to say, 'Thanks' and 'You are great!'

The people and animals we grow to love in our life time, remain in our personal time-capsule stored deep in our heart forever, even when they are gone!

The peer-reviewed science also shows that human beings do not react in the same way as rats or other animals to exposure to PFOA.

Sea World's killer whale collection needs constant replenishing. The average life span of the animals in captivity is less than half the average for killer whales in the ocean.

Nikki Sixx

It's interesting. People go to an animal shelter and pick a dog that's been kicked, beaten, and has lost a leg and an eye, and they'll take that dog home and give it love and support, but they don't do that with people.

The Arkansas-Oklahoma State Fair would do the animals and the public a favor by banning exotic-animal acts. Tearing babies from their mothers for stressful and potentially dangerous public contact isn't wholesome family entertainment.

The animals were the favorite. You know you can't compete with that.

The animals were just tied to here, there, stacked up here, stacked up on garbage there, buried under garbage here. It was pretty bad." ()

The animals we had there got good and fat.

Wayne Pacelle

The animals we are finding now are emaciated and sick and lonely, but we are still finding them alive.

The animal suffered a series of convulsions at around 7 p.m. and died.

The animals ... that's why we're here. We come down here three or four times a year. We've been bringing Megan since she was a baby.

Bob Brown

The animals had been dead for a while. The rest looked pretty dehydrated and malnourished.

The animals down here are totally traumatized, ... Even their own dogs and cats are turning on people.

The animals don't know these kids were bad in class.

The animals didn't show up until after we were developing. The pigs came just a month ago. To have this property in our backyards is really disheartening. It's malicious.

The animals are used as another way to terrify the other family members. Terrorizing the pet is a really effective way of controlling the family. It's a tactic that's been used for a really long time.

The animals are all familiar with this truck. They recognize the truck, so they won't run from it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality." - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher

The 1-year-olds, mom is less receptive to. She will drive last year's young off, and the young animals are looking for their own territory.

Susan Clark

We have what are considered to be some of the weaker laws in the nation protecting animals.

Peter Singer

In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages, with nothing to do but wait for the next meal. Circuses are even worse places for animals. Their living conditions are deplorable, especially in travelling circuses where cages have to be small so that they can go on the road.

Rick Wakeman

Sparks is a sporting charity that puts on golf tournaments for sick children, and my animal charities include Oldham Cats and Feline Care, a big cat charity close to me in Norfolk. I'm also a Freemason and the money they raise for charity is phenomenal.

We have the appropriate safeguards in place - overlapping, redundant safeguards - to protect public health and animal health.

Alexei Sayle

To know that these intelligent, sensitive animals are mocked, poisoned and even intentionally brain damaged, makes me full of shame.

John Fowles

You are like a porcupine. When the animal has its spines erect, it cannot eat. If you do not eat, you will starve. And your prickles will die with the rest of your body.

We've got six dogs, and we rotate them in and out of the fenced-in vineyards, ... I think a lot of the animals don't come because the dogs are here.

We've marked over 200, and five became nuisance animals.

We've made some inquiries. I know the animal rescue people documented a lot of what was going on.

We're using these animals as ocean sensors to tell us about oceanographic conditions, and we're also learning how they use the ocean--where they go and what they do.

Jennifer Granholm

Using computer technology to shoot at caged animals from a distance is a corruption of our proud hunting traditions, ... This practice is nothing more than a live-action video game, and I am proud to stand with Michigan's outdoor enthusiasts in opposing it.

John Young

Virtually every human being in the country has benefited from animal research.