Wild Animal Quotes

#1. To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.

Keith Richards

#2. Only when I heard her bedroom door open and close did I give in to my beast instincts and do a wild animal dance around the room.

Alex Flinn

#3. You Can't Keep Wild Animal In Your Back Yard And Expect It To Go only After Your Neighbor.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#4. not think about time or plans or deadlines or that rust spot in my old shower that bothered me so much or that wild animal with all the teeth charging toward me called the future,

Catherine Lacey

#5. To seek solitude like a wild animal. That is my only ambition.

Dalai Lama

#6. The cat is a wild animal that inhabits the homes of humans.

Konrad Lorenz

#7. Her body poised with the tension of a wild animal, ready to pounce - or to flee. So beautiful, he thought. As he voiced the words, she faded away, and his world returned to blackness.

India Drummond

#8. It was like waking up one morning and finding that a wild animal has wandered into your house. No place felt safe to me.

Khaled Hosseini

#9. But it was Finnikin he tried not to look at, except her heard something come from him that sound like some wild animal and then Finnikin said her name and as long as Froi was alive he had never heard a word said with such pain and he knew he never would again.

Melina Marchetta

#10. Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.

Nathan Wolfe

#11. Talk to me. Say something, anything," he pleaded quietly as if he was trying to tame a wild animal.
"There's nothing to say."
He looked up and lowered his eyebrows on his eyes. "Why did you kiss me?

Stephanie Witter

#12. If Sean's voice is layers of wood, and Mina Ma's is the voice a copper pot, then Mathew Mercer's is the voice of a wild animal. I suddenly think of a movie Ammara and I loved when we were little, and I think of Scar, the lion who murdered his brother to become king. That kind of voice.

Sangu Mandanna

#13. Our population has doubled since the 1960s while wild animal populations have dropped by a third.

Sue Donaldson

#14. The body - the cage - is everything of the most respectable - but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.

Agatha Christie

#15. I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.

Bram Stoker

#16. Philip wooed me with all the patience of someone trying to coax a half-wild animal into the house and, like many a stray, I found myself domesticated before I thought to resist.

Kelley Armstrong

#17. When I got started again, I drove slower and felt smaller. I think it does us all good to get looked at like that now and then by a wild animal.

Bailey White

#18. Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.

George Ayittey

#19. What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.

K.A. Applegate

#20. No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.

Karen Blixen

#21. Capture of a wild animal is invariably traumatic.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#22. A day like a beautiful wild animal with a glossy coat and a mouth full of teeth.

Cameron Dokey

#23. When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.

K.A. Applegate

#24. ... And the sound of the sea, like the wild-animal breath of the world itself, frightened them as it gasped and died at their feet.

Leonardo Sciascia

#25. Truth is like a wild animal; let it loose and it will defend itself!

Andy Andrews

#26. Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal.

Cassandra Clare

#27. The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.

Edsger Dijkstra

#28. I think there is something very interesting about people who live day to day in an environment where they could get taken out by a wild animal. There has to be some kind respect that is derived from that relationship.

Henry Rollins

#29. For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become.

Darren Shan

#30. Among wilderness survival tips, punching a wild animal in the face probably isn't on a checklist.

Kat Kruger

#31. Blessed are the ones who have become spiritually "domesticated"; the ones who have tamed the wild animal energy within them, the passions and compulsions of our lower nature.

Cynthia Bourgeault

#32. How dirty she was, how thin, what a wild look she had! I have never seen a wilder-looking creature. Her eyes were bright. They were like the eyes of a wild animal.

Sherwood Anderson

#33. I mumble my vows, Shad mutters his, and I wonder what would happen if I lunged for the door like a wild animal seeking its freedom. I could probably outrun his one-legged friend, but Shad has something of the greyhound about him.

Janet Mullany

#34. I've had a love of animals from birth. I love getting to know other species. We should all be aware that there is not one thing we can give a wild animal in captivity that they need.

Tippi Hedren

#35. Enter at own risk: Trespassers may be shot, drunk, eaten, poisoned, sliced or attacked by a wild animal. The psychic will tell you which.

Sarah Alderson

#36. They're gonna get us', she cried as he tried to hold her tight. She was like a wild animal fighting to escape. 'They come in the storm!'
Fighting for its life.
'They come in the storm!

Thomas E. Sniegoski

#37. A mortal person's mind is like a wilderness, with a tremendous volume of decaying constructs and half-understood experience forming natural harbors for wild animal effects.

Piers Anthony

#38. Pain was a wild animal, not to be held in a fenced yard, or a house, or a shoe box, or a heart, where it would only do damage. Finn

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#39. I spent the day running through the woods like a wild animal. Being chased by you is the only thing that would have made it more romantic.

Amanda Mosher

#40. Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.

Adam McKay

#41. A laugh came from the cockpit and Thorne appeared in the doorway, strapping a gun holster around his waist. You're asking the cyborg fugitive and the wild animal to be the welcoming committee? That's adorable.

Marissa Meyer

#42. The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock it well enough to whip a yak's ass. I love to rock it good on a horse's ass. I like to rock it real hard. I love to rock it all the way to Russia. I like to kick out the Jazz and kick it out all the way.

Wesley Willis

#43. The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.

John Millington Synge

#44. Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.

J. Paul Getty

#45. A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.

Chief Joseph

#46. The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.

Ernest Thompson Seton

#47. Our passion for fear consumes us and gives birth to the imaginary. Once fear is unleashed, it feeds upon us and rips us apart like a wild animal. Its hold is great, narrow is the escape and treacherous the road. I know of what I speak, for I was once his victim.

Nancy B. Brewer

#48. A pain slashed through her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.

Margaret Mitchell

#49. No one can be healed of death. All they can do is tame it. Death is a wild animal, sharp-fanged. I am just trying to build a cage to keep it locked in. It is there, beside me, drooling as it waits to devour me. The bars of the cage that protect me are made of paper.

Antoine Leiris

#50. I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

Ingrid Newkirk

#51. We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

G.K. Chesterton

#52. She's like a wild animal ready to bolt, but with nowhere to go. She knows the hurt is inside and running won't help.

Mindy McGinnis

#53. Fear is feeling, is not what do you think. That feeling keeps your body in every way to 100% and makes you react like a wild animal. It gives you that extra than you have in a normal

Dani Pedrosa

#54. If you prepare your subconscious for highly stressful situations, you can create harmony with your fears. You can tame fear like a wild animal and use it to your advantage.

Georges St-Pierre

#55. I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

Sigmund Freud

#56. A wild animal, when cornered, may suddenly and desperately defend itself. This is why I try not to spend any more time outdoors than is absolutely necessary.

Lemony Snicket

#57. You Americans. You suppress the body of its desires, and treat the heart as if it is a wild animal to be tamed, so that when those things are awakened in you , they have the strength of ravenous lions, too long imprisoned.

Louisa Edwards

#58. Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and (so far) the ability against all competition ... The Universe will let us know-later-whether Man has any right to expand through it.

Robert A. Heinlein

#59. 'Born Free' was the first film I ever saw. I just fell in love with the idea of people having that bond with a wild animal.

Martin Clunes

#60. So he's tame,' said Estienne, and reached out tentatively, as though to pat a wild animal.
It was a question of which part of the animal he was patting. Damen cknocked his hand away. Estienne gave a yelp and snatched his hand back, nursing it against his chest.
'No that tame,' said Laurent.

C.S. Pacat

#61. It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

Benjamin Rush

#62. Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

D.H. Lawrence

#63. Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#64. A wild animal that feels that it no longer has any reason to live reaches in the end a point when its remaining energies may actually be directed toward dying.

Richard Adams

#65. If it weren't for this hyena, the sailors wouldn't have thrown me into the lifeboat and I would have stayed on the ship and I surely would have drowned; and if I had to share quarters with a wild animal, better the upfront ferocity of a dog than the power and stealth of a cat.

Yann Martel

#66. When you're used to having electricity and then all of a sudden it's taken away, you're basically just one step from being a wild animal.

Jeff Kinney

#67. To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

P. J. O'Rourke

#68. All of a sudden, inviting Jeremy up to my room seemed like a terrible idea. I wanted him too much. My desire for him was like a thing separate from me, a wild animal with a mind of its own, attacking the bars of the cage I kept it in, looking for a weak spot." from Struck

Jennifer Bosworth

#69. The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is, and always will be, a wild animal.

Charles Galton Darwin

#70. When you get in the water with a wild animal, you're essentially giving yourself to that animal because, as humans, we're quite helpless and vulnerable in the water. You're at the seal's mercy. You're at the predator's mercy.

Paul Nicklen

#71. The queen! someone shouted in alarm, and the King erupted like a wild animal caught in a snare.

Megan Whalen Turner

#72. Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.

Veronica Roth

#73. Society may protect itself without putting a human to death as it would a wild animal. Since we believe each person has a soul, and is capable of achieving salvation, life in prison is now an alternative to the death penalty.

Richard Viguerie

#74. Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?

Abraham Polonsky

#75. And why was she only attracted to guys who were sleeping with somebody else? If Georgie were a wild animal, she'd be a genetic dead end.

Rainbow Rowell

#76. The zoo kills the 'wild' in wild animal.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#77. She was like a wild animal who didn't know whether to come to the outstretched hand or to flee and kept making startled little rushes, first in one direction and then in the other.

James Baldwin

#78. I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

Jack Hanna

#79. The expression just set me on edge. He had the look of an injured wild animal. I imagined a hungry lion limping in front of me with a bloody paw. No matter how much the beast stumbled or bled, one would have to always remember that the creature could tear the average human body in half.

Kenya Wright

#80. Now that he was navigating, his celestial mood was shattered. Wild, animal thirst for life, mixed with homesick longing for the free airs and the sights and smells of earth-for grass and meat and beer and tea and the human voice-awoke in him.

C.S. Lewis

#81. The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.

Mencius

#82. You're asking the cyborg fugitive and the wild animal to be the welcoming committee? That's adorable. Scarlet

Marissa Meyer

#83. I feel like a wild animal in heat, and I want to fuck like one

Roxy Sloane

#84. There was something about Nick that was like being around a wild animal. He was smiling and friendly now, but it felt like at any minute he could turn snarling and scary again.

Rachel Hawkins

#85. My favorite wild animal is a narwhal - the unicorn of the sea. It's a whale with a tooth that sticks out of its head that's almost two-thirds the length of its entire body.

Kesha

#86. Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid, but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat.

Kamala Markandaya

#87. Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.

Chief Joseph

#88. The second mode to deal with unsafe cities is to take refuge in vehicles. This is the technique practiced in the big wild-animal reservations of Africa, where tourists are warned to leave their cars under no circumstances until they reach a lodge. It is also the technique practiced in Los Angeles.

Jane Jacobs

#89. I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

James Cameron

#90. Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

John Marin

#91. People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.

Claudia Rankine

#92. When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.

Epictetus

#93. Rui bit out something raw and primitive. He raised his head and she saw his animal in his eyes, a rich, wild gold, and then the room spun and she was on the mattress, his big body covering hers...

Rebecca Rivard

#94. She giggled as he nipped and kissed her.He let out a small roar for her, Mmm. You make me wild like an animal.

J.B. McGee

#95. In a world where so much that is wild and free has been lost to us, we must leave these beautiful animals free to swim as they will and must. They do us no harm and wish us none and we should let them alone.

Ric O'Barry

#96. Like a wolf, she lived by instinct.

Nikki Rowe

#97. We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#98. Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.

Heinrich Heine

#99. In dim ways he recognised in man the animal that had fought itself to primacy over the other animals of the Wild.

Jack London

#100. ( ... ) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid. Ready to gnaw through bone.

Veronica Roth