Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stan Sakai

There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions.

There's all sorts of unknowns at the moment on this. We're just waiting for when we get medical tests on the animals and scientific results on the facility before we can say anything meaningful about it.

Robert Thompson

There's a history in American culture about animals. You have sincere animals such as Rin Tin Tin and Lassie who are essentially heroic. And you've also got your wise-cracking animals. ... You turn an animal into something that becomes a commentary on the silliness of human life.

This may be a positive thing. These animals may have moved themselves to new winter range to avoid conflicts with the wolves.

It is such a learning experience for the kids - and for us, too. This is our first year doing this. It is so interesting, ... The nice thing is that you don't have to live in the country to do this. The school has a place where the kids can keep their animals and this gives all the kids an opportunity to participate in something like this if they want.

It's a good little drop for that young puppy to go. We've had animals dropped over the larger fence lines, and animals with broken legs.

E. O. Wilson

It's a good career if you have a heart for animals and love for people. You can be pretty successful because it really takes the combination of both.

It's a property of this virus that it can go into these animals. One just has to watch and see what happens because the virus has the property to evolve.

It's a great way to put stuff out, send it out, let everybody read it and then say 'Oops,' ... You'd hear them screaming like wounded animals if we did the same to them. So that's it. I'm just not going to sink to their level.

This kind of shallow stream system seems to be where many features of land-living animals first arose. The species shows that evolution from life in water to life on land happened gradually in fish in shallow water.

This kind of shallow stream system seems to be the place where many features of land-living animals first arose.

They're all different animals as far as income limits, taxes, contributions, who controls the assets, and taxes. And like any other investment strategy, you're better off having more diversity, meaning you want to have a combination of them.

There's beginning to be some traction. If you use the metaphor of the forest at night, there's a lot of small animals rustling around in the leaves.

There's a lot of sadness. Some people have been working with these animals for anywhere from one to 11 years. It's definitely just like if you were to lose a dog or a cat you've had for a long time.

There is the inspirational quality of live exhibits, ... One of the main reasons for aquariums to exist these days is to use that power of inspiration of living animals to motivate visitors to protect these animals in the world.

William Williams

It was the love of love, the love that swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of nature, of people, of animals, a love engendering gentleness and goodness that moved me and that I saw in you.

It was really hard for me. I've always loved animals and I'd like to think there were people around to play with my dog if I ever had to leave it behind. It was just so sad.

Tippi Hedren

These are the animals that are the reason why you don't see old animals in the wild. You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.

We're spread thin. There are a lot of animals coming in. We're remaining on alert.

We go until we finish - usually between 10:30 to 12. It just depends on how many animals we have and how hot the bidding is.

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!

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.

Orlando Brown

There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.

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.

Alexei Sayle

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

Yeah they are young, they like to drink, but they are not party animals. They're not the type of people who would put themselves in danger -- especially Mark who served in Iraq.

We know two things. First, chimps were once more widely distributed. And second, these environments have changed dramatically in the last half million years. The chimps and all the other forest loving animals that lived with them became extinct, locally, because of this change.

Hannah Murray

I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.

Unlike most animals - with some exceptions like beavers - we engineer our environment. So that allows us to hang on in places that would otherwise be singularly inhospitable.

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.

Usually, there is not too much competition, but there are usually two or three animals that draw a lot of interest.

Bindi Irwin

I know that Daddy had an important job. He was working to change the world so everyone would love wildlife like he did. He built a hospital to help animals, and he bought lots of land to give animals a safe place to live.

We came here to check out the welfare of the animals. If they are not well, we'll keep them until they are well.