Dog Quotes - Page 35

• Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If he’s in a good mood.

  Eileen Wilks

  Cat, Numbers, Needs

  Eileen Wilks (2005). “Mortal Danger”, p.64, Penguin

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• 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.

  John Green

  People, Realizing, Persons

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• Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Coward, Mouths

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.150, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be lived forward.

  Douglas Coupland

  Sadness, Said Life, Envy

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• Wonder of wonders, the box had Elvis. Immediately the bar seemed a better place. She fed in coins and then punched the keys for "Hound Dog." Too bad Elvis had never recorded one called "Dickhead.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Keys, Bars, Coins

  Jennifer Crusie (2010). “Tell Me Lies”, p.353, Macmillan

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• Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its paw. This, he would say, as if coming away from a brandy snifter, is the greatest smell in the world! A bouquet! Great rumours of travel! She would pretend disgust, but the dog's paw was a wonder: the smell of it never suggested dirt. It's a cathedral! her father had said, so-and-so's garden, that field of grasses, a walk through cyclamen--a concentration of hints of all the paths the animal had taken during the day.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Father, Taken, Animal

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.8, Vintage

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• I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Moving, Years, I've Learned

  Tracy Chevalier (2004). “The Lady and the Unicorn: A Novel”, p.13, Penguin

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• Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit.

  Pablo Neruda

  Pet, Spirit, Joyful

  Pablo Neruda, “A Dog Has Died”

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• She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Husband, Night, Mirrors

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• Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she should have never left me here, where her friends might look to me for help. Finally she looked at me. Her eyes were hard, but she'd let no tears fall. "This is where we blame those who are responsible, Cooper, she told me, her voice very soft. "The colemongers, and the bought Dogs at Tradesmen's kennel. We'll leave an offering for him with the Black God when all this is done, and we'll occupy ourselves with tearing these colemongers apart. all right? We put grief aside for now.

  Tamora Pierce

  Grief, Fall, Eye

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• The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth, While man, vain insect hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, Heart, Fighting

  George Gordon Byron, “Epitaph To A Dog”

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• Dogs, dogs, go away, let me live another day.

  James Patterson

  Going Away, Max, Another Day

  "Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment". Book by James Patterson, April 28, 2011.

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• This was very exciting. I'd never had two boys get into a fight over me before. The fact that one of the boys was my stepbrother, however, and held about as much romantic appeal for me as Max, the family dog, somewhat dampened my enthusiasm. And Michael wasn't much of a catch, either, when you actually thought about it, being a potential murderer and all. Oh, why did I have to have such a couple of losers fighting over me? Why couldn't Matt Damon and Ben Affleck fight over me? Now that would be truly excellent.

  Meg Cabot

  Couple, Fighting, Boys

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Mean Spirits”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

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• My dogs can't do anything--and what a relief. I don't make any demands of them, and I don't try to shape them or their future. For the most part, I trust them to make the right choices for themselves. I always look forward to seeing them, and I love just watching them sleep. What a great relationship.

  Amy Chua

  Sleep, Choices, Trying

  Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. Men made dogs, they took wolves and gave them human things - unnecessary intelligence, names, a desire to belong, and a twitching inferiority complex. All dogs dream wolf dreams, and know they're dreaming of biting their Maker. Every dog knows, deep in his heart, that he is a Bad Dog.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dream, Heart, Cat

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• To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. He believes, with an innocence peculiar to himself, that they are equally proud of this alleged confraternity. He says, 'Look at my two noble friends -- they are dumb, but they are loyal.' I have for years suspected that they are only tolerant.

  Beryl Markham

  Horse, Believe, Pride

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.122, Open Road Media

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• He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Kind, Appearance, Young

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.200, Open Road Media

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• One minute she acts like she wants to be with me and I'm the one rejecting her. The next, she's got this barbed wire fence and barking dogs around her, like I can't even ask her the simplest questions." "And here I was assuming you didn't care about her." Stabbing his fingers through his hair, he groaned, "I don't!" "And you make it perfectly clear." Men. Idiots.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Men, Hair, Wire

  Jennifer Armintrout (2007). “Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes”, p.107, MIRA

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• Let's just say that if you were stealing TVs instead of thoughts, you would have been caught by a half-deaf, mostly blind, fifteen year old dog three robberies ago.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Years, Tvs, Three

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• What's the dog called?"Jason asked. "Feraclestinius Androbrelium Pathershin the Seventh." "No, I meant his entire name.

  Brandon Mull

  Names, Jason

  Brandon Mull (2013). “Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Children, Book, Orange Trees

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.64, Vintage

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• And that is why I hate dogs." " . . . woof." --Sebastian and Ceiel

  Yana Toboso

  Hate, I Hate

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• I have developed a rash on my body where the rough cloth rubs on my skin. I wanted to take a bath, thinking that the dirt on my skin made the rash worse, but the bathing tub has been turned upside down and is being used as an extra table in the kitchen and i cannot have it until spring, so I just spread goose grease on my rash. The dogs are following me everywhere.

  Karen Cushman

  Spring, Thinking, Kitchen

  Karen Cushman (2014). “Catherine, Called Birdy”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous eyes of the dog gazing out the tiny window. In the infinite loneliness of space, what could the dog possibly be looking at?

  Haruki Murakami

  Loneliness, Eye, Dark

  "Sputnik Sweetheart". Book by Haruki Murakami, www.theguardian.com. 1999.

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• To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada, while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apertheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.

  Peter Singer

  Mother, Baby, Lying

  "Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals". Book by Peter Singer, 1975.

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