#creatures

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

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

— Dennis Potter

#course #creatures #cruel #extraordinarily #little

The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures. ↗

— John Woolman

#creatures #good #good man #great #his

All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself. ↗

— Graham Swift

#express #itself #join #mating #mounting

We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing. ↗

— Terrence Howard

#beautiful #benevolent #both #could #creatures

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

#creatures #fills #interest #little #live

Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind. ↗

— Mary Austin

#creatures #credit #fully #interdependence #kind

I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#been #cannot #creatures #eat #feel

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

#humor #squirrels #beauty

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#dealing #emotion #logic #people #remember