#animals

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. ↗

— Mark Twain

#wordplay #animals

So you've got no name?" I asked. "They couldn't think of one ugly enough?" The creature snarled, stepping over the unconscious policeman. "Set animal is too hard to say," I decided. "I'll call you Leroy." Apparently, Leroy didn't like his name. He lunged. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#animals

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#animals

People are only what they think of themselves. ↗

— Ai Yazawa

#manga #nana #reira #animals

Believe it!!!" Naruto yelled. ↗

— Masashi Kishimoto

#masashi-kishimoto #animals

We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed. ↗

— Justin Torres

#child #children #family #kids #love

May all that have life be delivered from suffering ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#kindness #life #life

One's interest or need does not annul other's right. ↗

— Al-Hafiz B.A. Masri

#animal-rights #animal-welfare #animals #ethics #islam

Road to hell paved in unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#dog

He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#myth #omens #symbols #death