Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Bridges

Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of speeded intercourse hath outrun all magic, and disclosing the secrecy of the reticent air hath woven a web of invisible strands spiriting the dumb inane with the quick matter of life...

Robert Boyle

Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that abound with Sulphurous Salts, (under which I comprehend the Urinous and Volatile Salts of Animal Substances, and the Alcalisate or fixed Salts that are made by Incineration) have the virtue of Restoring it.

Tom Turner

Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to resolve all conflicts or to gain all ends. Choices have to be made. Different aspects of the public good should be stressed in different places. To achieve variety in land use patterns, there should also be a variety of relationships between the professions, not an institutionalized decision-making tree. Relationships between the constructive professions should, therefore, be deconstructed.

Tom Hanks

There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.

Tina Turner

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

Tina Fey

Luxury cruises were designed to make something unbearable (a two week transatlantic crossing) seem bearable. There's no need to do it now, there are planes. You wouldn't take a vacation where you ride on a stage coach for two months but there's all-you-can-eat shrimp. You wouldn't take a vacation where you had an old-timey appendectomy without anesthesia while steel drums play. You might take a vacation while riding on a camel for two days IF they gave you those little animal towels wearing your sunglasses.

Tim Dorsey

These are different animals now. They're starting to winnow out the weak at the fringe of the herd. We need to hurry or this could affect our snack situation.

Sallust

All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.

Russell Simmons

I think I will always have a connection to young people, to try to bring their voices to the polls, bring their voices wherever they can make a difference. Even to protect their own interests or the interests of the planet or the animals or other individuals, which is critical. I try to keep it.

Russell Simmons

An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.

Stephen Colbert

Oops! I always thought PETA stood for Please Eat This Animal.

Stephen Colbert

Look, PETA! If God hadn't wanted us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them so darn tasty!

Stefanie Powers

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

Thomas Hobbes

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body

Tim Cahill

In my life outdoors, I've observed that animals of almost any variety will stand in a windy place rather than in a protected, windless area infested with biting insects. They would rather be annoyed by the wind than bitten.

Thomas Love Peacock

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

Thomas Keating

For us to remain in this world, our animal brain has to be there to support us.

Thomas Keating

The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.

Vin Diesel

It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

Victoria Moran

Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.

Victor Hugo

The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.

Victor Hugo

All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.

Victor Hugo

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

Vernor Vinge

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

Vanessa Mae

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.

Val Kilmer

There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.

Sutton Foster

I love to teach, I love to draw, I love animals. So I don't feel like I am relying on one thing to lead me in my career.

Susan Olsen

I would always prefer radio or working behind the scenes where I don't have to be seen. I don't like how appearance oriented TV is (especially now that I'm middle aged!). But I am developing a show revolving around animal rescue which will hopefully entertain and maybe do a bit of good for the cause as well.

Stephen King

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

Tea Obreht

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

Through our entire history we have become accustomed to pushing [animals] around in ways dictated by our own wants and needs without much regard for theirs.

Tacitus

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

Tacitus

Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.