Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
There are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really good at working with Congress and getting legislation actually passed.
Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.
I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous...' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.
People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
Well, my life is so centered around the people I care about, my animals, and my work.
This sounds really cheesy and weird, but the pitbull is a sweet animal that just wants love until it's provoked - that's kind of how I've lived my life, too.
Basically, the intersection between the animal world and the plant world is where life regenerates itself over and over, billions of times each day. It's the foundation of life on our planet.
In the immortal germ line of human beings - that is, the eggs that sit in the ovaries - they actually sit there in a state of suspended animation for up to 50 years in the life of each woman.
The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus.
Be nice to the environment. Be nice to animals. Be nice to people. If you do that, you will leave a mark on the world.
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
Sometimes when I'm dancing and don't put in enough hairspray, I wind up looking like a... what's the animal with needles? Porcupine.
The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous.
There has been so much underestimating of animal cognition that to perhaps overestimate it, as I probably do, is probably a healthy reaction.
If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
