Animal Companion Quotes

#1. Often, when a human suffers through major emotional traumas, a lack of well being follows if their feelings about the trauma are not completely expressed. When the trauma is severe and the suffering is continuous, their animal companion's condition may deteriorate too.

Colleen M. Flanagan

#2. Dogs are a companion species. It's about time - you have an animal for about 15, 16 years, a generation. That time holds so much. You might have had five or six relationships with human beings but one dog.

Eileen Myles

#3. There are many roads to Mecca.

Hugh Hefner

#4. It's in the tilting and thrashing that we wangle our luck.

Chang-rae Lee

#5. My wife and I, we started a foundation about companion animal rescue, but there's a group called Performing Animal Welfare Society just outside of Sacramento ... and they offered me a job as an elephant keeper.

Tony La Russa

#6. People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

Gary L. Francione

#7. Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship, enjoyment at a distance.

Ingrid Newkirk

#8. Too often people enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought, never taking a principled stand. True justice will never come until those who are not injured are just as indignant as those who are

Kweisi Mfume

#9. I don't know why we aren't scoring as we're keeping clean sheets.

Edwin Van Der Sar

#10. The Situational Character: A Critical Realist Perspective on the Human Animal" by Jon D. Hanson and David G. Yosifon, along with its companion piece, "The Situation: An Introduction to the Situational Character, Critical Realism, Power Economics, and Deep Capture." Situationism

Charles Eisenstein

#11. To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate. To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#12. Paul patted Mrs. O'Leary's snout. The living room shook - BOOM, BOOM, BOOM - which either meant a SWAT team was breaking down the door or Mrs. O'Leary was wagging her tail.
I couldn't help but smile.

Rick Riordan

#13. On the intimate level, anyone who has loved a companion animal knows the uniquely wonderful experience these 'other nations' provide, and their important presence in our shared lives. In their very local way they show us the global truth of our real wealth, our biodiversity.

April Gornik

#14. My style has evolved in a nice way, but everyone has bad moments.

Halle Berry

#15. Part of the beauty of falling in love with you is the fear you won't fall.

Tyler Oakley

#16. Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

Martha Beck

#17. Art must be a slow and normal evolution.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

#18. Most people may not realize the tremendous value that therapy/companion/comfort animals have for the purposes of easing the suffering of those with PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), particularly within the military.

Ken Wahl

#19. It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

Ziggy Marley

#20. I just love dogs, and there really is no better companion than an animal.

Rita Rudner

#21. Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#22. The issue of animal use and abuse can seem insurmountable, it is tragic and it is complex. We love our companion animals and we value wildlife but we are generally blind to the realities of what goes into the food we eat.

Liz Marshall