Quotes About Little Creatures

#1. They're horrible little creatures. All snot and smelly feet and pestering questions."
"Then why did you go into teaching?"
"It was either that or sit at home with Mother all day. I picked the lesser of two evils.

Brian Francis

#2. A group of little creatures is coming up the walk. A pirate, a dinosaur, two fairies, and a bride. Why is it that you never see a kid dressed as a groom on Halloween?

Laurie Halse Anderson

#3. Governor Scott Walker didn't know who he was messing with when he picked a fight with the hard-working union folks of Wisconsin. He must have forgotten that Wisconsin is the Badger State. And badgers are scrappy little creatures. We may look cute, warm and fuzzy, but we have a fighting spirit.

Gwen Moore

#4. Cats were not, in her experience, an animal with much soul. Prosaic, practical little creatures as a general rule. It would suit her very well to be thought catlike.

Gail Carriger

#5. All little creatures are beautiful ... every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.

Brian Jacques

#6. It can be so terrifying to open yourself up to true love. That love can be with your mate, with your child, with yourself, because we are ultimately such vulnerable little creatures in this world.

Lauren Bowles

#7. There's a Drunk Midget in My House
Ah, babies! They're more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts. Like most people who have had one baby, I am an expert on everythiing and will tell you, unsolicited, how to raise your kid!

Tina Fey

#8. Ah, babies! They're more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.

Tina Fey

#9. Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

Dennis Potter

#10. Zalos: 'The world is full of massive things in motion. Little creatures get hurt.

Robert Fanney

#11. How should the little creatures, the awakened worlds, reach out to knowledge of the whole cosmos, and of the divine? Instead they must play their own part in the drama, and appreciate their own tragic end with godlike detachment and relish.

Olaf Stapledon

#12. Little creatures they were who seemed to have been blown from glass.

Michael Ende

#13. Although finding fruit flies in your wine or beer can be a bit annoying, I hope people will pause to admire the tenacity of these clever little creatures. They are really just hungry animals looking for something to eat, and have no intention of ruining your happy hour.

Michael Dickinson

#14. People are little creatures with big capacities, finite beings with infinite desires, deserving nothing but demanding all. God made people with this huge capacity and desire in order that He might come in and completely satisfy that desire.

Billy Graham

#15. The word 'fairy' conjures up images of cute little creatures, so I don't use it. I use 'metahominids' from the Greek for 'other' and 'men.' They aren't cute - this is no fairy story.

F.R. Maher

#16. The Smurfs 2 is a great movie. The Smurfs are tiny little creatures that everybody loves. They're like Justin Bieber - minus the part about everybody loving him.

Craig Ferguson

#17. Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.

Shelley Duvall

#18. Children are unaccountable little creatures.

Katherine Mansfield

#19. Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.

Kate Thompson

#20. When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whispers, "You can do this. You've got what it takes." The other sounds like my mother-in-law.

Carla H. Krueger

#21. When you were a kid and the circus came to town it was awesome to see these little creatures, but these things go out of fashion, like polyester blazers with rolled up sleeves. We don't have to suffer them anymore so why are there all these little people running around?

Zach Braff

#22. I had a book that was given to me as a kid that was called 'Faeries.' It was this dark, sinister book with pictures that used to scare me because they were these creepy little creatures. But, I was always really drawn to that fantasy world, more than a sci-fi world, in terms of outer space stuff.

Anna Silk

#23. Ugly or beautiful, it is the little creatures that make the world go round. We should celebrate and appreciated them in all their wonderful diversity.

Dave Goulson

#24. Ain't it strange how innocent little creatures like children like the blood-thirstiest stories?

L.M. Montgomery

#25. Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world -any world. The very best of all.

Cornelia Funke

#26. Hey. My life's not all about weird little creatures pretending to be teddy bears. From Tribe of the Teddy Bear.

J. Joseph Wright

#27. Dylan prided himself in the gift of reading women's minds. They were such fickle little creatures, as apt to change their minds as their thongs.

Cat Byrd

#28. Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things that excite people day-to-day about each other. Yet physicists in their own working environment are very social creatures.

Leonard Susskind

#29. When we know God to be our Father, should we not desire that he be known as such by all? And if we do not have this passion, that all creatures do him homage, is it not a sign that his glory means little to us?

John Calvin

#30. Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

#31. Men, and women too, are unpredictable creatures. You have seen little of this. I wonder now if your innocence is enough protection for you.

Cynthia Voigt

#32. Calories," Emily said on a sigh. "The evil tiny creatures that live in my closet and sew my clothes a little tighter every night.

Jill Shalvis

#33. Whereas babies are essentially helpless creatures for many months, puppies come into this world as little survival machines, revealing their true animal natures almost immediately after they are born.

Anonymous

#34. I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we preserve creatures only as human ornaments; I shall be impressed when we show solicitude for warty toads and slithering worms.

Stephen Jay Gould

#35. On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.

Sylvia Earle

#36. Oh human creatures, born to soar aloft,
Why fall ye thus before a little wind?

Dante Alighieri

#37. Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.

Thomas Carlyle

#38. If you watch a fly on, say, a coffee table, you'll see that they're rubbing their little legs together to groom themselves; they're actually quite clean creatures.

Michael Dickinson

#39. Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?

Marquis De Sade

#40. I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large chest freezer.

Jasper Fforde

#41. Exclaimed, O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.

Aesop

#42. and the owl made a noise with very little resemblance in it to the noise conventionally assigned to the owl by men-poets. But it is the obstinate custom of such creatures hardly ever to say what is set down for them.

Charles Dickens

#43. War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

Ernie Pyle

#44. How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?

Alexander Pope

#45. God, what pathetic creatures had inherited the earth, to walk a little while with their eyes upon the stars and turn their gaze too soon upon the ground that held their feet!

Martha Ostenso

#46. Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.

Walter Savage Landor

#47. Directing their narrow little lives by narrow little formulas - herd-creatures, flocking together and patterning their lives by one another's opinions, failing of being individuals and of really living life because of the childlike formulas by which they were enslaved.

Jack London

#48. The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as though the creatures were attached by sensitive wires to his nerves.

Malcolm Lowry

#49. The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some three billion years of invisible progress, a major breakthrough occurred. The first many-celled creatures appeared on earth.

Robert Jastrow

#50. Having five cats around the house helps me have no expectations. They are not goal-fulfilling creatures in any human sense. There is little one can expect of a cat.

Clarice Bryan

#51. It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

John Phillips

#52. Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little lamb or pig or calf, and that is one of God's creatures you're looking at, morally indistinguishable from your beloved Fluffy or Frisky.

Matthew Scully

#53. We were the creatures desired throughout the ages ... foolish humans didn't even realize it, living in their own little world.

Kay Harding

#54. You bring a little bit of yourself into every character you play. We're multifaceted creatures.

Linden Ashby

#55. You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures.

Thomas Keating

#56. If you have so little respect for me, why are you still around?"
He slipped a gentle hand into her hair and pushed a curl
behind her ear. "Because I'm a sucker for beautiful,
wounded creatures.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#57. If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am:
I'm a genuine philanthropist
all other kinds are sham.
Each little fault of temper and each social defect
In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.

W.S. Gilbert

#58. I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want people to feel a kind of empathy with them. When you think about it, all nature is kind of strange looking.. in fact, I'm a strange a looking creature.

Patricia Piccinini

#59. I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger: the little things that compose the foundation of our ecosystems, the little things, as I like to say, who run the world.

E. O. Wilson

#60. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing.

Cormac McCarthy

#61. As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to crumble.

Muriel Barbery

#62. Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

Charles Dickens

#63. Never 'it,' never 'it,' " Marya chided. "None of God's creatures is an 'it,' even if they're not a boy or a girl or a mammal or a pretty bird. Call them 'he' or she' and be a little wrong, but never take away their individuality like that.

Mira Grant

#64. I don't think there's anything innately erotic about pigs. But, generally, they are sweet, shy, mysterious creatures. Especially the little ones. When they get big, they get kinda gross

Kim Deal

#65. All the animals and creatures of this earth are our former brothers and sisters but because we believe that we have "dominion" over them, we have become cruel little emperors.

John O'Donohue

#66. You even used to make up funny stories about those poor little lost creatures of yours. Remember Bob, the squirrel banker who forgot to pay his electric bill so he froze to death?

Kimberly Derting

#67. Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

William E. Gladstone

#68. Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#69. Ant Prune was holding one of the squirrels in her hand. 'And once a day, we have ta clean their little private parts with a Q-tip, so they'll learn ta clean themselves.'
That was a visual I didn't need

Margaret Stohl

#70. Human males are fascinating creatures. No matter how old they get, the little boy never goes away.

Barbara Bretton

#71. I was really enjoying one of the screenings of 'Beautiful Creatures' and there was this little 14-year-old boy sitting next to me in the screening and I was laughing at all the jokes and I just felt really judged. I had to keep it down a bit. It's a bit embarrassing.

Alice Englert

#72. What would he imagine next? Little hairy beasties tap-dancing on his sofa, or other fey creatures sneaking up on him in the shower?' (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#73. The Prophets even express their surprise that God should take notice of man, who is too little and too unimportant to be worthy of the attention of the Creator; how, then, should other living creatures be considered as proper objects for Divine Providence!

Maimonides

#74. I don't like raccoons. They look ... shifty, with their little burglar masks and everything. Also, they carry rabies. Can I catch rabies? Probably not. All the same, it sounds gruesome - and I think we all know that cute, fuzzy woodland creatures are not to be trusted on general principle.

Cherie Priest

#75. We are all creatures of logic, at root. Of little switches turning on and off in our heads, metaphorically speaking.

Stephen Baxter

#76. We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.

William Dean Howells

#77. The shaping of character mimics the smallest detail of habit; humans are creatures that learn from observation. Each little thing you do, and each thing you allow yourself to become desensitized to matters. They create you - whether you know it consciously or not.

Grace Sara