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Man hits animals, Man yells. Animals have teeth,and claws. They can hurt us,
can't they? But they dont.
—Nycole Vallarelli
A
cat isn't fussy — just so long as you remember he likes his milk in the shallow,
rose-patterned saucer and his fish on the blue plate. From which he will take
it, and eat it off the floor.
—
Arthur Bridges
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 8/11/08 It
seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this
end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage
cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection
and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering
in all living creatures.
—
Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 6/30/08
Living with animals can be a wonderful experience, especially if we choose to
learn the valuable lessons animals teach through their natural enthusiasm, grace,
resourcefulness, affection and forgiveness.
—
Richard H. Pitcairn
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 6/30/08 The
greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals
are treated... I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it
is to protection by man from the cruelty of human kind.
—
Gandhi
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 5/5/08 I
could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish
on the ground. (Reply to friends who chided him for delaying them by stopping
to return a fledgling to its nest.)
—
Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 4/21/08 Let
children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions
of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows,
plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that
death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
—
John Muir
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 2/25/08
The little furry buggers are just deep, deep wells you throw all your emotions
into.
—
Bruce Schimmel
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line10/1/07 Man,
unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy
it.
—
Samuel Butler
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line7/30/07 Love
of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet.
By loving and
understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand
each other.
—
Dr. Louis J. Camuti
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line7/23/07 The
worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent
to them. That's the essence of inhumanity.
—
George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line6/4/07 No
matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you
rich.
—
Louis Sabin
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line4/23/07 Use
what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there
except those that sang best.
—
Henry Van Dyke
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line5/29/06
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems
to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful
vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds
— how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives —
and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
—
John Burroughs (aka "John O'Birds')
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line5/29/06 Every
baby animal is unique and adorable, and there is no greater love than that between
a mother and her young. It is the power of this love that explains why humans
have always sought the company of young animals.
—
Anonymous
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 4/10/06 Climb
the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as
sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you...
while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
—
John Muir
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 3/27/06 The
greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals
are treated.
—
Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 11/28/05 The
best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere
where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens and nature.
—
Anne Frank
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 8/15/05 If
you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
—
Mark Twain
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 7/11/05 A
dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
—
Josh Billings
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 6/13/05 That
is one good thing about this world ... there are always sure to be more springs.
—
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 5/2/05 If
I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will
go to heaven,
and very, very few persons.
—
James Thurber
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 4/25/05 The
one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one
that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is
his dog.
— George Vest, U.S. Senator from Missouri (1830-1904)
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 10/25/04 There
is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
—
Ben Williams, American Editor & Journalist
(1877-1964)
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 7/5/04 Emotional
healing is a most amazing gift that's bestowed by our furry friends ... The choice
to nurture a pet in our life can bring huge returns on our investment.
—
Harry Thomas, Editor
of Inspiration Line
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 7/5/04 We
give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. In return,
dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made."
—
Margery Facklam, Award-Winning Children's Science Author
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 10/20//03 In
order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman.
The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
—
Edward Hoagland, American Essayist (1932 - )
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 9/22//03 Buy
a pup and your money will buy you love unflinching.
—
Rudyard
Kipling, English Writer & Nobel Laureate (1865-1936)
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 7/14//03 Animals
are not brethren, they are not underlings; They are other nations, caught with
ourselves in the net of life and time.
—
Henry Beston,
American Author, also known as "The Vagabond of the Dunes" (1888-1968)
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 6/2//03 I
think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might
be if we weren't certain we knew better.
—
George Bird
Evans, Outdoor Essayist & Dog Breeder
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 3/3/03 Thousands
of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going
to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and that fountain
parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating
rivers, but as fountains of life!
— John Muir What
nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity
in it.
—Isaac Bashevis Singer I
believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
—
Walt Whitman The
tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing
that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity ... and some
scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is
imagination itself.
— William Blake Everything
in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.
—
Hazrat Inayat Khan Nature
always takes her time. Great oaks don't become great overnight. They also lose
a lot of leaves, branches and bark in the process of becoming great.
—
Andrew Matthews Nature
is not only all that is visible to the eye —
it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
—
Edvard Munch I
really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except
I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light
changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an
interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage
of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in
our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go
back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence
we came.
— John F. Kennedy Mankind's
true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists
of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect
mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all
others stem from it.
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable
Lightness of Being Any
glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger
and better in every way.
— John Muir
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion
and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
— St. Francis of Assisi The
fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other
creatures; but the fact that he can DO wrong proves his moral inferiority to any
creature that cannot.
— Mark Twain All
animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it.
—
Samuel Butler From
the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found
in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals
are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes,
the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food
for thought.
— Victor Hugo Animals
have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without
any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments
are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost
them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
—
Voltaire There
are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
—
Albert Schweitzer
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it
- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She
will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will
never sit down on a cold one anymore.
— Mark Twain
Cats
seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
— Joseph Wood Krutch Cats
are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly
coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility.
—
Stephen Baker God
created domestic cats so that men might touch tigers.
—
Unknown We
all have our 'good old days' tucked away inside our hearts, and we return to them
in daydreams like cats to favorite armchairs.
— Brian
Carter I
care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
— Abraham Lincoln Whoever
said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies.
—
Gene Hill Dogs
are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit
with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where
doing nothing was not boring, it was peace.
— Milan
Kundera If
a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go
home and examine your conscience.
— Woodrow Wilson
Things
that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.
—
Smiley Blanton He
is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love,
his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart.
You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
—
Unknown I
love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.
—
Will Rogers The
quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether
he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother.
—
Evan Esar Behold
the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
—
James Bryant Conant If
you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started
by a mouse.
— Walt Disney All
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