who devoted his life to promoting animal rights
. He was perhaps best known for his books about his cat, named Polar Bear, whom he saved from the Manhattan
streets on Christmas Eve
1977. The executive director of the Humane Society of the United States described Amory as "the founding father of the modern animal protection movement."
Amory attended Harvard
where he was president of The Harvard Crimson
.
"'A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better."
"As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind."
"I can't take a well-tanned person seriously."
"The facts of life are very stubborn things."
"The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it."
"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge."