Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's an end of the season celebration to dog ownership. There's always such good energy. It's a spectacle.

It was actually 21 years. They treat you like a dog there.

It will be the first official memorial that honors these dogs.

They'd have their big dogs in there. No reason to show them everything you have.

They wanted to take away her dog because she couldn't fit in their vests because she was a pregnant woman.

They've taken over my garage, ... I think they are worse this year. They really seem to like the dog food.

Mike Johnson

None of the dogs are mean. They do not have any major health problems.

Kobe Bryant

It just happened. It's tough to explain. I would have been sick as a dog if we would have lost this game.

It looks like dogs really do understand what we are trying to tell them, they are thinking about what we want, and they understand that we are trying to communicate.

Brian Jones

It looks good. I think the dog will be happy.

It's good for conditioning if the dog is out of shape, also recovery from surgery. Now that we've been going swimming, and on the underwater treadmill for 10 or so visits, she has an easier time keeping up.

It's going to be a dog fight to the end. Nobody's going to hand it to us.

Eric Johnson

It's fun for 3-year-olds. But older kids will also enjoy dogs playing ball, driving a car, working with different tools. Stuff humans do.

Nelson Mandela

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

Neil Strauss

Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it.

Mike Huckabee

A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show.

Niall Horan

If a man whistles at you, don't turn around. You are a lady not a dog.

Nelson Rockefeller

No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous.

Noam Chomsky

I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog, but I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.

Jodi Picoult

I watch her do the simplest things: brushing her hair into a ponytail, feeding the dog, tying Sophie's shoelaces, and I want to tell her what she means to me, but I never actually say the words. After all, to acknowledge Delia as a drug, I'd have to face the fact that one day I might have to go without her and this I can't do.

Jodi Picoult

When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along.

John Green

Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other people.

Cassandra Clare

What is this?” he went on now, spearing an unfortunate object on a fork and raising it to eye level. “This… this… thing?” “A parsnip?” Jem suggested. “A parsnip planted in Satan’s own garden.” said Will. He glanced about. “I don’t suppose there’s a dog I could feed it to.” “There don’t seem to be any pets about,” Jem—who loved all animals, even the inglorious and ill-tempered Church—observed. “Probably all poisoned by parsnips,” said Will.

Carolyn Mackler

On Valentine's Day, the Spirit Club plastered the school with red streamersand pink balloons and red and pink hearts. It looked like Clifford the Big Red Dog ate a flock of flamigoes and then barfed his guts up.

Caroline Knapp

I don't think that the world would be a better place if everyone owned a dog, and I don't think that all relationships between dogs and their owners are good, healthy, or enriching.

Caroline Knapp

Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.

Caroline Knapp

Dogs are fantasies that don't disappoint.

Caroline Knapp

I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly missing from her world: the dog had introduced to her field of vision some previously unavailable hue and without a dog, that color was gone. That seemed to capture the experience of loving a dog with eminent simplicity. I'd amend it only slightly and say that if we are open to what they have to give, dogs can introduce us to several colors with names like wildness, nurturance, trust and joy.

Caroline Knapp

I'm 38 and I'm single, and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in different ways, and this way happens to be mine.

Caroline Knapp

Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans -- the ability to make you feel valued just by being you -- and it was something of a miracle to me to be on the receiving end of all that acceptance. The dog didn't care what I looked like, or what I did for a living, or what a train wreck of a life I'd led before I got her, or what we did from day to day. She just wanted to be with me, and that awareness gave me a singular sensation of delight.

Caroline Knapp

Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way.

Caroline Knapp

All dogs can be guide dogs of a sort, leading us to places we didn't even know we needed or wanted to go.

Caroline Knapp

The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you. There are no ulterior motives with a dog, no mind games, no second-guessing, no complicated negotiations or bargains, and no guilt trips or grudges if a request is denied.