Quotes with animals

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  • David Seabury Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
    David Seabury
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • Pierre de Beaumarchais Drinking, when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.
    Pierre de Beaumarchais
    French playwright (1732 - 1799)
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  • Juvenal Even savage animals can agree among themselves.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Winston Churchill Football is a gentleman's sport played by animals, while rugby is a animalsport played by gentlemen
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Ann Veneman Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Elizabeth Janeway Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?
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  • George Bernard Shaw Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • C. S. Lewis Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • A. Whitney Brown I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
    A. Whitney Brown
    American writer and comedian (1952 - )
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  • Graham Swift I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes on in their thoughts which must be equivalent to the way dogs and other animals, when they meet, sniff each other's arses and nuzzle each other's fur.
    Graham Swift
    English writer (1949 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • George Washington I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie I've always had that attitude about my career: it's something that I do, but it's not my whole life. I have a real life, a personal life: I've got a lot of chickens, I've got a horse, I've got a kitty-cat, I've got a lot of goats, I've got animals all over the place.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Barry Marshall If humans evolved in a tiny area of Africa, they only saw plants and animals within a 100-kilometre radius for a million years. When they began to migrate, there would have been different animals and plants - and potentially a lot of allergy issues.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Bob Woodward In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.
    Woodward and Bernstein. The Final Days, chapter 14 (1976)
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Henrik Ibsen It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Mario Vargas Llosa It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
    Mario Vargas Llosa
    Peruvian writer, politician, journalist and essayist (1936 - )
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  • Asa Gray It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Byron Howard It's tough sometimes for groups of people and animals to let go of that fear that can so easily bubble back up to the surface.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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