Dog Quotes - Page 25

• President Bush, have a hot dog with me.

  Stephen Colbert

  President, Hot, President Bush

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• All Dogs Go To Heaven? Sorry, kids. It's only the dogs who've accepted Christ.

  Stephen Colbert

  Truth, Sorry, Kids

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• Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.

  Winston Churchill

  Letting Go, Breathing, Noses

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• It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.

  Robin McKinley

  Given, Straightforward

  Robin McKinley (2014). “Deerskin”, p.268, Open Road Media

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• I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body, but there is no chance, my god, no chance. rat with rat dog with dog hog with hog, play the piano drunk listen to the drunk piano, realize the myth of mercy stand still as even a child's voice snarls and we have not been fooled, it was only that we wanted to believe.

  Charles Bukowski

  Children, Believe, Eye

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• All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had never named him. Had called him "my parrot" all these years. "My parrot." "Love you. "Love you." Did the dogs get him? Or did he get the message - that she said, "My parrot" and he said, "Love you," and she had never said it back or even taken the trouble to name him - and manage somehow to fly away on wings that had not soared for six years.

  Toni Morrison

  Love You, Taken, Light

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• Some may say that such a girl is not ready for a relationship with a man, especially a man in his late sixties. But to that I say: We don't know anything. We don't know how to cure a cold or what dogs are thinking. We do terrible things, we make wars, we kill people out of greed. So who are we to say how to love. I wouldn't force her. I wouldn't have to. She would want me. We would be in love. What do you know. You don't know anything. Call me when you've cured AIDS, give me a ring then and I'll listen.

  Miranda July

  Girl, War, Men

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog did nothing in the night-time.' That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Night, Wish, Attention

  "Silver Blaze" (1892)

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• He does not rule us. No one can rule us. No one can rule anyone who does not first agree to the ruling." She smiled a trace at Aeriel and patted the little camp dog, which was whining for more tidbits. "One must rule oneself.

  Meredith Ann Pierce

  Doe, Littles, Firsts

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• The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to his dog voice, frog voice; now, he said, and now, and never once mentioned forever from, One or Two Things

  Mary Oliver

  Wise, Two, Voice

  Mary Oliver (2014). “Dream Work”, p.37, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They have forgotten, if they ever knew, the ancient knowledge that only by being truly sick can one regain health. Even beasts know when it is good and proper to throw up. Teach me how to be sick then, in the right time and place, so that I may again walk in the fields and with the wise and smiling dogs know enough to chew sweet grass.

  Ray Bradbury

  Wise, Sweet, Ignorance

  Ray Bradbury (1991). “On stage: a chrestomathy of his plays”, Plume

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• It was a good hald minute before I looked over at Todd. his eyes were slightly foggy, like he was waking up- reluctantly- from a lascivious dream. "I didn't know they still made them like that," he said.... "Cool, tough, retro-manly. The kind who only cries if someone just ran over their dog. The big chested guy we can indulge our pathetic Daddy complexes with.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dream, Eye, Daddy

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• It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.

  John Steinbeck

  Cat, Different, Fever

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.201, Penguin

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• Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.

  Homer

  Moving, Loss, Son

  Homer (2002). “The Iliad”, Spark Notes

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• I don’t have to walk my dog anymore. I walked him all at once.

  Steven Wright

  My Dog, Walks

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• Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.

  Milan Kundera

  Animal, Law, People

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./ But glaring under his brows Odysseus answered: 'You yellow dogs, you thought I'd never make it/ home from the land of Troy. You took my house to plunder,/ twisted my maids to serve your beds. You dared/ bid for my wife while I was still alive./ Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven,/ contempt for what men say of you hereafter./ Your last hour has come. You die in blood.

  Homer

  Home, Men, Blood

  Homer, Robert Fitzgerald (1961). “The Odyssey”, Anchor Books

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• When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from a chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Girl, Sadness, Bottles

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border we cross.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Forget Everything, Borders, Genetics

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Aug 18, 2011

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• The adult must seem to mislead the child, and the Master the dog. They misread the signs. Their ignorance and their wishes twist everything. You are so sure you know what the promise promised! And the danger is that when what He means by ‘wind’ appears you will ignore it because it is not what you thought it would be—as He Himself was rejected because He was not like the Messiah the Jews had in mind.

  Sheldon Vanauken

  Children, Ignorance, Mean

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• First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.

  Edward Albee

  Kindness, Firsts, Ifs

  Edward Albee (2011). “At Home at the Zoo: Homelife and the Zoo Story”, p.64, The Overlook Press

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• You might be a redneck if your dogs name is Miller Light

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Light, Names

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• Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right - he'll keep you company, be your friend, never ask you no questions. Cats is different, but I never held that against them.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Cat, Different, Treats

  "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society".

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• Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love You, Soul, Drs

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• Every dog has it's day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weakend.

  June Carter Cash

  Funny, Tails, Puppy

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