Tamora Pierce Quotes

I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie.

Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

I am a pet person. My dog actually lives in Georgia now. But I work with animal trainers and pets quite often. I also volunteer at different places like animal shelters. It's good to be around pets. They kind of put things into perspective. They're easygoing, loyal, and they seem to get it, even when humans don't.

Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.

Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

All those animals that were in the cages, I would spend a lot of time in those cages with the animals in-between shots, just hanging out, because I prefer animals to humans. If I get an opportunity to be with them, I'll usually take it.

Animals are a continuous source of inspiration and wonder to me. I would love to play a dog.

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

There ain't a man livin' who hasn't talked to his dog.

I'm fascinated by animals and couldn't live without Dewy, my Boston bulldog.

I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would lick my hand and not bite me out of anger due to the pain. They are also far more forgiving than people are of human beings and other animals.

if we don't always understand animals, they always understand us.

There is three different ways that autistic kids will interact with animals.And they also need to make sure that they're not getting too rough with their animals - they need to learn how to pet the dog properly, they can't be pulling its ears and things like that.

You really, really have to care about animals to want to kill one. You have to learn all this stuff about them and start thinking like them.

I had not spent a ton of time around animals as a kid.

Animals make us Human.

I love animals. When I was young, I had two St. Bernards, I still have a dog, I have a lot of cats in my company. My wife always says, "You spend a lot of money on animals. More than even me!"

I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm animal or a pet, is to base animal welfare programs on the core emotion systems in the brain. My theory is that the environment animals live in should activate their positive emotions as much as possible, and not activate their negative emotions any more than necessary. If we get the animal's emotions rights, we will have fewer problem behaviors... All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.

I do love animals so much, and have a great respect for them emotionally and intellectually, because they are so different from human beings.