Al Yankovic Quotes, Running Quotes, Animal Quotes

I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.

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human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Children Quotes , Animal Quotes

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Dog Quotes , Animal Quotes

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Animal Quotes , Pet Quotes

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Animal Quotes

I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and hear the ax; When I see calves and lambs, I see Them led to death; I see no bird Or rabbit cross the open field But what a sudden shot is heard; A shout that tells me men aim true, For death or wound, doth chill me through.

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Tags : W. H. Davies Quotes , Men Quotes , Animal Quotes

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Art Quotes , Animal Quotes

What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?

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You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that you are the flower crushed and not the foot that has crushed it.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Flower Quotes , Animal Quotes

A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Animal Quotes , Men Quotes

Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.

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I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Animal Quotes , Men Quotes

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Children Quotes , Animal Quotes

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

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To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Animal Quotes , Government Quotes

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Animal Quotes , Had Enough Quotes

Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Animal Quotes , Blood Quotes

Just give food without showing affection, [animals] might not get sort of 100% satisfaction. So they also, you see, when we human beings, we show affection, the poor animal also respond to us.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Animal Quotes , Giving Quotes

Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Animal Quotes , Numbers Quotes

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Animal Quotes , Men Quotes