I use animals native to Great Britain, ... The animals have human traits, like the mole is a tiny, furry wonderful creature with big digging claws. I think about how he would talk. He's not a baddie; he's a goodie.
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Related Every time hes supposed to be here, hes showed up, BRENDA JONES God is always on time, it may not be the time you are expecting, but hes on time. Just like he said ... ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and t... JON KATZ Hes ready to go every morning. He runs right over to the cruiser, PETER GOULD I went to see a band in New York. The lead singer got on the microphone, and he said How many of you... MITCH HEDBERG „Ein Mensch kann niemals Tier werden, er stürzt am Tier vorbei in den Abgrund MARLEN HAUSHOFER [Senior Rob Hudson sustained his good form with a 3-under par 33 to earn medalist honors for the var... ALEX ADAMS Hes the smartest dog Ive ever had, PETER GOULD By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to ... SALLY PEARSON His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING My brother went to New Orleans when he was 19, ... Hes 72 now. BARBARA UPTON Man is now able to fly through the air like a bird, he is able to swim under the sea like a fish, he... TOMMY DOUGLAS The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals. ERIC ROBERTS I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ... BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power. SHESH NATH VERNWAL I wanted to talk to the animals like Dr. Doolittle. JANE GOODALL I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting ... MARK TWAIN Hes doing better than what we thought. JAMIE KING I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals a... DICK VAN PATTEN Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac... KAREN A. ANDERSON Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and ... MASANOBU FUKUOKA Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE I know it's not good to be weak and helpless. But I don't think it's good to be too strong either. I... NATSUKI TAKAYA Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Too many of the findings that have been made in animals have been proven to be true for animals, but... ABRAHAM MASLOW I'm very caring with animals. I think patience is a big deal, because animals are always jumping... JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many few... GARY STEINER Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, e... LAURA INGALLS WILDER I dont like animals. Its a strange thing, I dont like men and I dont like animals. As for Go... SAMUEL BECKETT I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I think life is a chain of events. ZARA LARSSON I don't care when people honk at me, but when geese do, I get out of the way! ANIMALS You know the oxygen masks on airplanes? I don't think there's really any oxygen. I think they're ju... ANIMALS Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile from them, and ... ANIMALS I always try to cheer myself up by singing when I get sad. Most of the time, it turns out that my v... ANIMALS I'm not bored of being quarantined, last night I even struck up a conversation with a spider. Turns ... ANIMALS Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. ANIMALS We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about ... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. The greatest gift that humans have is the ability to think. Of all the creatures in the world, human... SHIV KHERA Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving. LAURA WHITCOMB If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but hes not a man of action... GEORGES CLEMENCEAU I think it?s great for these young kids to see the different types of animals. A lot of these kids h... JEFF TUCKER We were looking for some animals that we could bring to the school that have similar traits of the b... LAURA WARNER They had a big problem afterwards with animals that were not identified in any way. They had no way ... FRANK BRANCHINI I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is w... DAVID ATTENBOROUGH No one will remember the kick in the balls if hes bleeding everywhere... NATHAN ELMO MELO I feel bad about it. I love animals. I have no tolerance for animals that people just discard animal... DARRYL ADAMS All of my pets are strays that have been saved from animal shelters and, just like your pets, my ani... GREGORY POPOVICH Endurance, after all, is the only reason we even exist. We think of ourselves as nature's deadli... CHRISTOPHER MCDOUGALL Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that t... ANN VENEMAN I have no affinity for animals. I don’t hate animals and I would never hurt an animal; I just don�... TINA FEY The best thing about animals is they don't talk much. THORNTON WILDER It is a fact that plants also have life like animals. But animals are endowed with mind, and nervous... SRI SATHYA SAI BABA I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major pro... IAN SOMERHALDER I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are... MARGARET ATWOOD I've always wanted to play a Marvel baddie. I'm not sure I fit the mold, though. Like a powe... OLIVIA COLMAN Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN It is a story about faith, about hope and about animals that talk and how they can change a man's li... BILL MCCONNELL I think it's a very emotional issue because animals can't speak for themselves. These are people who... ELAINE HICKS Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much. THORNTON WILDER Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk tw... W. H. DAVIES It's not a health food. It's not something anybody needs to eat. These animals are pulled out of the... BRUCE FRIEDRICH I want to be a veterinarian when I grow up, because I really, really like helping animals and being ... CAROLYN ANDERSON Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should... STEPHEN JAY GOULD Jenny, she's aw weet, peer body,
Jenny's like to cry;
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In... MISS SUSANNA BLAMIRE AND MISS CATHERINE GILPIN Talk to the Animals REX HARRISON Interdependent Thinking is a true system view of the world. PEARL ZHU Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Why is it that we humans don't have tails or fluffy ears like animals have? If I have a tail, I woul... J C A ROWE I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into th... SARA GRUEN I don't think you should hurt or kill animals just to entertain an audience. Animals should have som... JAMES MASON I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spi... VICTORIA MORAN Our economic order is tightly woven around the exploitation of animals, and while it may seem easy t... BOB TORRES Contrary to popular belief, some animals would not have each chosen to be a human being, if they wer... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I had a dream about you. I opened your chest like a cabinet, it had doors, and when I opened the doo... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I like animals. I like people who like animals. I hate people who love animals to the point they los... JOHN RIDLEY I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry d... MARK HAMILL If humans evolved in a tiny area of Africa, they only saw plants and animals within a 100-kilometre ... BARRY MARSHALL My own experience of over 60 years in biomedical research amply demonstrated that without the use of... ALBERT SABIN I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we wou... HANNAH MURRAY I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interac... YVONNE CRAIG People need to realize we're human beings too, not the animals they think we are. AMARAL DUCLONA Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benef... GARY L. FRANCIONE Like a butcher without a knife, a knight without a sword, and a farrier without a hammer, you cannot... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much. THORNTON WILDER I try to keep a positive intention and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to cre... RUSSELL SIMMONS The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word. MARGARET ATWOOD
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MARTIN JACQUES The fact that the Bush administration, and those in Europe who have followed its 9/11-inspired agend... MARTIN JACQUES The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it mu... MARTIN JACQUES What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of natur... JACQUES COUSTEAU A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the c... JACQUES BARZUN We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what... JACQUES COUSTEAU A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too lo... JEPH JACQUES 'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scor... JEPH JACQUES If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem. JEPH JACQUES Your whole life people tell you to do what you love. But if you gotta do something else to pay the b... JEPH JACQUES You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself. JEPH JACQUES The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop... JEPH JACQUES You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentra... JEPH JACQUES