Fur Quotes - Page 11

• It's terrible because people see stars like JLo and Beyoncé wearing fur and they don't think about the cruelty that goes into it.

  Pamela Anderson

  Stars, Thinking, People

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• From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
  And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
  Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life,
  I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
  When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

  Randall Jarrell

  Mother, Dream, Sleep

  "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" l. 1 (1945)

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• If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Science, Men, Way

  Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.6, Paul & Company Pub Consortium

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• Because we lack sharp claws, aren't very fast on our feet, and aren't exactly endowed with lightning reflexes, it would be very difficult if not impossible for us to run down an animal, catch it with our bare hands, and tear through its fur and skin in order to eat it. Biologically, we are designed to be frugivorous herbivores eating mainly fruits, seeds, roots, and leaves.

  Sharon Gannon

  Running, Animal, Hands

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Farms, whether small or large, are places where slaves are kept. The animals are fattened up to be eaten, or exploited for their ability to make honey or milk, or for their fur, wool or body parts; they are kept as breeders to produce more animals who can in turn be exploited and ultimately sold, slaughtered, and eaten.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Wool, Body

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur coat, spend more than all their European collegues.

  Indro Montanelli

  Husband, Italian, Order

  "Controcorrente 1974-1986". Book by Indro Montanelli, 1987.

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• Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.

  Diane Ackerman

  Bats, Adults, Appetite

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.18, Vintage

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• 'You ain't got any tobacco,' he said scornfully to Bunyip Bluegum. 'I can see that at a glance. You're one of the non smoking sort, all fur and feathers.'

  Norman Lindsay

  Smoking, Said, Glances

  Norman Lindsay (2006). “The Magic Pudding”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• Cats are angels with fur.

  Sark

  Peace, Cat, Angel

  Allen Klein, Sark (2012). “The Art of Living Joyfully”, p.131, Cleis Press

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• [Fur] is really ridiculous. It's outrageous. We're not living in igloos. We don't need to trade pelts anymore. There is this diabolical idea that fur is fashionable. It's not. It's death. There's no excuse for it.

  Margaret Cho

  Ideas, Needs, Igloos

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• Those who purchase meat, fur, and leather have no right to be shielded from the sights and sounds of the slaughterhouses from which these products were produced.

  Peter Singer

  Sight, Meat, Sound

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• Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Long, Interesting

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• It is unlikely that someone could proclaim "truths" that are counter to physical laws for very long (for example, that it is healthy for children to run around in bathing suits in winter and in fur coats in summer) without appearing ridiculous. But it is perfectly normal to speak of the necessity of striking and humiliating children and robbing them of their autonomy, at the same time using such high-sounding words as chastising, upbringing, and guiding onto the right path.

  Alice Miller

  Summer, Running, Children

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.16, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Among women, guilt spreads with the rampant fury of bubonic plague. ... I used to feel guilty if the cat had matted fur.

  Sue Thoele

  Cat, Guilt, Used

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• I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live.

  P. W. Botha

  Play, People, Ears

  Sunday Times, November 5, 2006.

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• It was a pretty posh place. They were so used to fur coats that two bears strolled in and ordered lunch and nobody even noticed.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• I can look at a fur and tell if it's good or not.

  Grace Jones

  Looks, Ifs, I Can

  "New Again: Grace Jones". Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2014.

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• I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.

  Grace Jones

  Different, Three

  "New Again: Grace Jones". Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2014.

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• I went to the flea market in the morning and charged tourists money to take pictures of me. I looked pretty wild, with hair down to my waist, Indian robes, a floor-length fur coat. There must be lots of photos of me out there.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Morning, Hair, Photo Of Me

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• I'm gonna design my own fleet of trailers. No! I'm gonna record an album like Jennifer Lopez. It'll be an acoustic version of K.C. and the Sunshine Band. Then maybe I'll design a line of clothes like Puff Daddy, but all in synthetic fur.

  Brad Pitt

  Sunshine, Clothes, Daddy

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• An increase of two or three degrees wouldn't be so bad for a northern country like Russia. We could spend less on fur coats, and the grain harvest would go up.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Russia, Two

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• I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.

  Jonathan Swift

  War, Fire, Water

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The works of Jonathan Swift, containing papers not hitherto publ. With memoir of the author by T. Roscoe”, p.98

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• I lay naked in furs a lot. I think I'm naked more than I talk.

  Jason Momoa

  Thinking, Naked, Lays

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• Quite Franc-ly, I think I am an asset to this world we live in. I know that if I didn’t exist, there would be some truly upset people just waiting for me. A life without Franco is like a kitten without fur. That’s what my reflection told me.

  James Franco

  Reflection, Thinking, People

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• Clothes have always had a wonderful influence on my physical well-being as well as my self-assurance. All I have to do to make me feel like a new and younger man is to order three new suits of clothes. My fur-lined overcoat gave me such a glow of health that very shortly after acquiring it I was able to enjoy the hazards of a Gargantuan studio cocktail party without a single twinge of pain.

  Adolphe Menjou

  Pain, Party, Men

  Adolphe Menjou (1950). “It took nine tailors”

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