Temple Grandin Quotes

I had not spent a ton of time around animals as a kid.

I love animals. When I was young, I had two St. Bernards, I still have a dog, I have a lot of cats in my company. My wife always says, "You spend a lot of money on animals. More than even me!"

No dog is too much for me to handle. I rehabilitate dogs, I train people. I am the dog whisperer.

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 grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense and animals, he was the smartest person I've ever met, before or since. He taught me that to touch an animal is an earned privilege. It's not a right.

You can draw the character out of pets, and you can make them your friends, but they are animals, and they have to be allowed to live the lives of animals.

I seem to be landing a lot of roles with animal interactions, which is amazing.

In 'True Grit,' we had a vulture, a trained vulture... that was a pain and that was - even by vulture standards - probably a stupid vulture, and that was frustrating.

Having small children with a dog that you don't know anything about can be risky.

Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.

As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.

I actually quite like working with kids and I like working with animals, which everybody says you shouldn't do. It makes you feel like you're not acting, as soon as you have someone who's providing stuff to react to.

I'm professional, I'm allowed to say this. I let him lick my balls. So, that's what you need to get close with your animal.

Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.

I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life.

Animals make us Human.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

Basically when it comes to autistic kids and animals there's kind of three ways that they work, some of them are instant best buddies, they understand a cat, they understand a dog - they're best studies with it, they just know how to communicate with it. Then there's other kids that begin with a little bit of fear of the cat or the dog, but then they begin to like it and then there are other kids where you have a sensory problem - the cat meows and it hurts their ears, so they want to stay away from the cat because you never know when he might meow.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.

Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.

All those animals that were in the cages, I would spend a lot of time in those cages with the animals in-between shots, just hanging out, because I prefer animals to humans. If I get an opportunity to be with them, I'll usually take it.