Animal Rings

My favorite animal is steak. - Fran Lebowitz

Growth is the only evidence of life. - John Henry Newman

Trees often transplanted seldom prosper. - Flemish Proverb

What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees? - Robin Williams

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal. - Ellsworth Huntington

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. - Pearl S. Buck

My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. - Plato

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. - George Bernard Shaw

He knows his olive trees better than he knows his children. - Rebecca Helm-Ropelato

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. - Oscar Wilde

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us. - Loren Eiseley

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual. - Samuel Smiles

There's a good animal show on with that kindly old gent, Marlons Perkos. - Archie Bunker

The turkey is living proof that an animal can survive with no intelligence at all. - Harvey D. Comstock

Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits. - Eleanor of Aquitaine

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. - George R.R. Martin

I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life. - Dave Dravecky

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. - Bill Vaughan

I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal. - Yoko Ono

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. - Aristotle

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. - Lao Tzu

We breathe air, trees make air, homework kills trees, therefore homework is going to kill us all. - Unknown

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. - H L Mencken

A moose is an animal with horns on the front of its head and a hunting lodge wall on the back of it. - Groucho Marx

I like cookies, any cookie you put in front of me - animal cookies, sugar cookies, anything crunchy. - Maria Shriver

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash

Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel. - Homer Simpson

There are a zillion variables to a hamburger. What part of the animal went into it. What coarseness. What temperature. - Danny Meyer

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. - Bertrand Russell

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. - Unknown

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. - Herbert Otto

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. - Confucius

I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright. - Millard Kaufman

The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes. - Andrew Harvey

I think trees should bloom earlier in the spring. They act like they are on a schedule. It’s not like they have anywhere to go. - Jarod Kintz

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. - Mark Twain

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around. - Ernest Hemingway

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. - Joseph Addison