Small Animals Quotes:

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Social Democracy, Social Entrepreneurship

Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest.

- Lloyd Biggle, Jr.

topic: Ocean, Life Is, Scales, Marine Life, Sea Life

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Courage, Animal, Bravery, Winni The Pooh, Pooh And Piglet

It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might be. ... Our food industries are equal opportunity abusers: cows, chickens, pigs, and a special mention to those little calves who for their short, miserable lives are locked into crates too small to allow movement just so we can eat veal.

- Ron Reagan

topic: Animal, Opportunity, Pigs, Abusers, Objections

Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

topic: Real, Rain, Moving, Small Animals

They say there were birds who used to soar through the skies like planes.It seems strange that a small animal could achieve anything as complex as human engineering, but the possibility is too enticing to ignore.

- Tahereh Mafi

topic: Animal, Engineering, Sky, Enticing, Small Animals

I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

- Al Yankovic

topic: Work, Animal, Paper, Paper Clips, Small Animals

Silence arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we drop to our knees, as if to let the heart, like a small animal, get its legs on the ground.

- Barbara Hurd

topic: Heart, Animal, Silence, Small Animals

Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.

- Anne Sexton

topic: Time, Animal, Listening, Small Animals

If you're Noah, and your ark is about to sink, look for the elephants first, because you can throw over a bunch of cats, dogs, squirrels, and everything else that is just a small animal and your ark will keep sinking. But if you can find one elephant to get overboard, you're in much better shape.

- Vilfredo Pareto

topic: Dog, Cat, Animal, Small Animals

Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall...and then I can write.

- Danielle Steel

topic: Wall, Writing, Animal, Burrowing, Small Animals

A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.

- Shunryu Suzuki

topic: Animal, Doe, Cows, Small Animals

Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live long in the presence of towering mountains or sweeping plains without getting a little of the high moral standard of Nature infused into his being ... with eyes opened, the great story of the Earth's forming, the history of a tree, the life of a flower or the activities of some small animal will all unfold themselves to the recreationist....

- Arthur Carhart

topic: Flower, Eye, Animal, Small Animals

My name is Patrick Fitzgerald ... I like to tear the tops off small animals.

- Karl Rove

topic: Animal, Names, Tears, Small Animals

I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?

- Anne Tyler

source: Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet

topic: Dog, Travel, Mean, Lifeless, Hotel Rooms

Paper Matches My aunts washed dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses. Why are we in here, I said, and they are out there? That’s the way it is, said Aunt Hetty, the shriveled-up one. I have the rages that small animals have, being small, being animal. Written on me was a message, “At Your Service,” like a book of paper matches. One by one we were taken out and struck. We come bearing supper, our heads on fire.

- Paulette Jiles

source: Paulette Jiles (1988). “Blackwater”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

topic: Uncles, Book, Taken, Small Animals

It is very hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal." Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said: "It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in the adventure before us.

- Benjamin Hoff

topic: Writing, Adventure, Animal, Small Animals

From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the world with the coming of spring. Her eyes moved like an independent organism with joy, laughter, anger, amazement, and despair. I hadn't seen a face so vivid and expressive in ages, and I enjoyed watching it live and move.

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Girl, Laughter, Spring, Small Animals

She didn't even notice right away that a small animal had come out from behind a nearby car and was slowly making its way toward the trash can she was standing near. She flipped through some old files in her mind, trying to come up with what this thing might be, and after a few seconds decided that--impossible as it seemed--it was a fox.

- Maureen Johnson

topic: Animal, Car, Mind, Trash Cans, Small Animals

Yes, he’s a good boy. Never been in trouble at school and he’s on the honor roll. Captain of the football team. All-around psycho serial killer who hides bodies in the fridge whenever his parents go out of town. (Nick) I also eat babies for breakfast and torture small animals for fun. My therapist says I’m making real progress though. (Caleb)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

topic: Football, Baby, Fun, Caleb, Good Boy

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

- Aristotle

topic: Completeness, Small Animals

Beer commercials usually show big men, manly men, doing manly things: 'You've just killed a small animal. It's time for a light beer.' Why not have a realistic beer commercial, with a realistic thing about beer, where someone goes, 'It's five o'clock in the morning. You've just pissed on a dumpster. It's Miller time.'

- Robin Williams

source: "A Night at the Met". Studio album by Robin Williams, August 9, 1986.

topic: Morning, Beer, Animal, Light Beer, Dumpsters

I think small animals can escape from many kinds of natural disaster more easily. There are just more places for them to hide, and more ways for them to find safe habitats. So this means that rats are set up to rule the Earth, but most of us already knew that. Now you know why.

- Annalee Newitz

topic: Mean, Animal, Thinking, Natural Disaster, Small Animals