Quotes of: Wild-animals Keyword

My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration.

Jonathan Safran Foer

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

Soren Kierkegaard

Mrs. Fox: Why did you lie to me? Mr. Fox: Because I'm a wild animal.

Fantastic Mr. Fox

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Alice Walker

The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the sun he goes blind.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme.

Andrew Motion

A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.

Ashwin Sanghi

War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,000 of them - now spreading across the U.S.

Nancy Gibbs

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read,...

Abraham Lincoln

Talk to me. Say something, anything," he pleaded quietly as if he was trying to tame a wild animal. "There's nothing to say." He looked up and lowered his eyebrows on his eyes. "Why did you kiss me?

Six Years

The elk that you glimpse in the summer, those at the forest edge, are survivors of winter, only the strongest. You see one just before dusk that summer, standing at the perimeter of the meadow so it can step back to the forest and vanish. You can't h...

The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild

Sister, why do you do that?" "Do what?" "Cage the animals at night?" "Well..." She looked up and out through the barred window before answering me."We don't want to, Jennings, but we have to. You see, the animals that are given to us we have to take ...

They Cage the Animals at Night

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Heartbreak House

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

Ralph Bakshi

We all came into this world wired to connect with all life.

Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

Animal Farm

If all the centenarians formed their own country, they’d be both the youngest country in the world, and the oldest.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

I make believe like asexuals make love—alone, with cardboard tubes.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

He said he thinks he’s God, and I said, In that case, I’m an atheist.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

The idea of a blind date scares me. But a deaf date would be great.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

I am Vigalig the Destroyer. Except during the day, and then I am Gigalig the Giggler.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom