Famous Quotes & Sayings

You have to take care of these animals 365 days of the year. It's not just a Monday through Friday type of job.

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.

That was less than the number of animals (40) we had hoped to take from the herd. It was pretty tough hunting. There was full foliage, and the warm weather made the animals not move around too much during the day.

I wasn't leaving. If you love animals like I love animals, you'd stick with it, too. We did what we had to do to save them.

John Hunter

Most animals are built to withstand one bad year.

Look at it from the point of view of the animals that live in your garden. They did not evolve in a tidy landscape, they evolved in a landscape where leaves and branches and whatever fell off the tree and just lay there.

March of the Penguins is a unique film in part because it is an unprecedented look at a real-life phenomenon, ... And it anthropomorphizes these animals, and that is a tremendous selling point. And penguins are amusing.

Anna Sewell

Master said, God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He gave animals knowledge . . . which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.

We recycle bottles and cans, and we have a lot of pets because we love animals. It's important to celebrate Earth Day so we can save everything and conserve.

We don't seize animals. We only document what happened.

We envision humans healing animals and animals healing humans.

We encourage parents to buy their kids stuffed animals. We're really adamant about it.

Gary L. Francione

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.

We really recognize that level of commitment. Plus, these animals are really, really special.

Well, we try to give the best care we can to the animals who need it. We're different from most shelters in that we have the volunteer and donor support to take care of bigger (medical) problems most shelters can't.

Chuck D.

We have a lot of events coming up, such as Tennessee Week for the Animals in October. We work closely with the Maryville Animal Shelter, which has been just great.

I think I care more about the quality of life issues, and that appeals to people that moved here to enjoy the beauty and the animals and all of that. I feel there are some people who are intent on pushing business, and I heard very little else from them.

It deepens their respect. Plus, live animals are just cool.

It has some rare plants, rare animals and rare trees. It's really exciting to be able to protect that.

Julien MacDonald may have been able to ignore images of bloody skinned animals gasping for breath in the past, but hopefully a dash of flour will help him rise to the occasion and forsake fur once and for all.

Whether he was working with tigers, leopards, elephants, horses, or a giraffe, you immediately knew that he was special, because his incredible rapport with animals was unsurpassed,

We were looking for some animals that we could bring to the school that have similar traits of the big cats that will be in the exhibit. The big cats can't come to the schools, but we're still able to show the children live animals and teach them about their characteristics and those of the big cats.

When it comes to summertime, we have people giving away animals because the family is going on vacation.

We're all sensitive to animals out here. Those people don't deserve to have animals.

Robbie Coltrane

Well, I quite like animals, but they're unpredictable. I mean, look at old what's-his-name in Vegas. Tiger dragged him off the stage, you know? The guy brought up tigers. They're quite unpredictable.

We hope the court will decide not to let him continue getting away with the types of things he puts these animals through.

He called and wanted to make us the recipient of a percentage of the proceeds from the auction of the antique furniture that was in the mansion. His love for animals is extreme and sincere.

For some people, animals are the only family they have, and this service is a way for the whole family to feel spiritualized.

I definitely think there are still a lot of animals that have the minimum score to qualify for the record book. Whether or not it is a new state record you never know, but those records are made to be broken.

Dick Van Patten

I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals are so nice and so good and so sweet and intelligent. It's a crime not to help them.

I feel bad about it. I love animals. I have no tolerance for animals that people just discard animals.