Animal-Human Relationship Quotes

In the eyes of my dog, I'm a man.

The first animals to be successfully domesticated were dogs, which were a big help because they would bark all night and fetch thrown sticks, thereby freeing humans from having to perform these tedious yet vital tasks.

When a man tries to communicate with an animal, there's a relationship between them, and you generally find this between the dog and his master.

The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.

Bindi went in with the crocodiles when she was one month old and grew up with the crocodiles.

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.

I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and they leave at a particular time. The whole glorious history of animals with people is about joy and connection. It's about loving this creature and letting this creature love you.

I liked animals better than people. That's one of the reasons I wanted to be a vet - then I found out that every pet had a person that owned 'em.

The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body.

The relationships I've had with animals are often some of the most profound. That's why you cry when a dog dies in a movie. The connection is so deep and so profound, and it isn't cluttered by humanity.

If you're a part of this urban intelligentsia, you're not around animals all the time the way people were in the past. So animals become a part of the folklore.

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

My wife says that I become different once I start to work with animals. My movements become different, my mood is different. It involves letting everything fall behind you, becoming intuitive in your dealings with wild creatures in a way that bypasses reason. Sometimes it's more like a dance than anything else.

I think it's pretty ridiculous to sit back and think that we've changed the horse so much, without realizing that they have changed us an awful lot too.

Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.

One of the great things that playwright A.R. Gurney does in 'Sylvia' is he gives language to the emotional gestures and energy that our dogs give to us when they're communicating.

I do not believe you can work with animals - certainly you cannot train them - without deciding that if humans have souls, dogs do, too.

I still prefer horses to human beings.