#creature

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

#built #creatures #death #frustration #horses

I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#am #certain #certain feeling #creatures #feeling

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away. ↗

— Plutarch

#creatures #household #like #living #living creatures

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#creatures #despise #generally #human #human behavior

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

— Dennis Potter

#course #creatures #cruel #extraordinarily #little

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#crowd #intelligence #known #number #people

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#apart #body #chained #compelled #creature

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#beautiful #brave #brief #butterflies #clever

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#amongst #ashamed #breathing #cows #creatures

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#become #comforts #creature #day #every