Tea Obreht Quotes

I've always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!

Ever since I was a little girl, I have always loved animals and been fascinated with them.

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

I love animals, and I feel more of a connection to animals than people.

I've just always loved animals.

I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.

My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it's made such a difference in my lifetime.

I love animals and their behavior. I watch cat videos all the time.

Future benefits rarely figure in the minds of animals.

There is a growing scientific consensus that animals have emotions and feel pain. This awareness is going to effect change: better treatment of animals in agribusiness, research and our general interaction with them. It will change the way we eat, live and preserve the planet.

Animals interest me more than anything else.

We're all animals.

I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.

I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie.

In 'We Were the Mulvaneys,' animals are almost as important as people. I wanted to show the tenderness in our relationships with cats, dogs, and horses. Especially cats.

Animals are a continuous source of inspiration and wonder to me. I would love to play a dog.

I am a pet person. My dog actually lives in Georgia now. But I work with animal trainers and pets quite often. I also volunteer at different places like animal shelters. It's good to be around pets. They kind of put things into perspective. They're easygoing, loyal, and they seem to get it, even when humans don't.

I'm a really big animal lover.

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.

I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.