1,641 Quotes About Animal

  • Author Erma Bombeck
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    not all bears have their own television series. Some of them are unemployed wild animals.

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  • Author Frank Brown
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    It could lift its head, but it was paralyzed. It couldn't lift its hind end. Then another gal stopped too, and she ended up calling the vet, Lebanon Animal Hospital, and they were gracious enough to get out of bed for us, and I brought her in.

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  • Author Gregory Bateson
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    Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole bloody history of religion .

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  • Author Henry Beston
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    The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.

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  • Author Henk Bekedam
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    So far it is primarily an animal disease. The more it is contained to animals, the better.

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  • Author Henry Ward Beecher
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    Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.

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  • Author Hilaire Belloc
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    I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.

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  • Author Isaiah Berlin
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    I wish my life and decisions to depend upon myself, not on external forces of whatever kind. I wish to be the instrument of my own, not other men's, acts of will. I wish to be the subject, not an object...I wish to be somebody, not nobody; a doer - deciding, not being decided for, slef-directed and not acted upon by external nature or by other men as if I were a thing, or an animal, or a slave incapable of playing a human role, that is, of conceiving goals and policies of my own and realizing them.

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