" I want to thank every single one of you for being here today from the bottom of my heart, because I promise you that in these days to come I will, be closing my eyes and remembering this view to remind myself that I am not alone, that we are not alone, that we come together....." - Kerry Washington, Women's March Los Angeles 01.21.17

"Animals have  genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species." - Lewis Thomas

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." Benjamin Franklin

"Wisdom cannot be stolen - it can only be shared." - Jefferson Smith, Strange Places

"What we see out there is an affordable housing crisis, particularly in the rental market in cities big and small, and we don't have the resources necessary to fill that gap." - Julian Castro

"For the first time we can perceive something of the real proportion of features and events on the stage of the whole world, and may seek a formula which shall express certain aspects, at any rate, of geographical causation in universal history." - Halford Mackinder

"Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me". - Carlos Fuentes

"After his dinner, the wolfhound liked to prowl the grounds, sniffing the grass to learn what creatures of field and forest had recently visited. The yard was Merlin's newspaper." - Dean Koontz Breathless

"Property trained a Man can be a Dog's best friend." - Corey Ford

"We all insist – hope? – that we haven’t written our best works yet, and we all harbour deep, almost religious faith, in our most dismissed or despised efforts." - Edward Albee 2007 Guardian UK interview

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." - Will Rogers

"Dogs lives are too short. Their only fault, really" - Agnes Sigh Turnbull

"The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs." - Charles de Gaulle

"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience." - Woodrow Wilson

"Too Bad we don't have marshmallows. This is an amazing fire." Howard emerged  through the smoke behind the Edilio."  - Michael Grant, Lies

"We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without Whales. It's too terrible to imagine."  - Pierce Brosnan
 

"Tell me who can catch a Toucan? Lou can. Just how few can ride the Toucan?

Two Can. What kind of goo can stick you to the Toucan?

Glue can. Who can write some more about the Toucan? You Can."

 - Shel Silverstein, The Toucan

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer

"A Dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself." - Josh Billings

"We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves." - Cesar Chavez

"Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze." - Horace

"And then there is the Black Cat. Who has not other name than the Black Cat and who turned up almost a month ago. We did not realize he was going to be living here at first: he looked too well fed to be a stray, too old and jaunty to have been abandoned. He looked like a small panther, and he moved like a patch of night...." - Neil Gaiman's M is for Magic

"In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin." - Austin O' Malley