Pet Quotes - Page 10

• There is nothing, under present conditions, that can be more easily and exactly reproduced than a technically good black-and-white photograph, and it is utter rot to burden those interested in them with irrelevant biographical trivia and pet longwinded theory.

  Clarence John Laughlin

  Black And White, Trivia, Photograph

  Clarence John Laughlin, Lafcadio Hearn, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1973). “Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye”

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• Intimacy with a beloved pet or special animal makes millions of people feel as though they win the lottery every day.

  Marty Becker

  Animal, Winning, People

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• Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.

  Marvin Minsky

  Lucky, Might, Computer

  Life Magazine, November 20, 1970.

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• I thought it would be lovely to use [pet bulldog] Noelle as an example to teach the importance of being who you are. For me it's important to inspire children in a positive way, and at times they understand more messages through entertainment than when one is talking to them directly.

  Gloria Estefan

  Children, Talking, Inspire

  Comment to The Associated Press regarding publication of her second children's book "Noelle's Treasure Tale", October 9, 2006.

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• I used to have lots of tigers. I had all sorts of exotic pets when I had some money. Before I was broke, I had everything. Pigeons and vultures, lions, tigers, and bears. I had it all.

  Mike Tyson

  Exotic, Lions, Pigeons

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.

  Heather Armstrong

  Children, Kids, Motherhood

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• Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Suffering, Thee

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• I'm the best animal lover in the world. There's nobody who takes care of their pets like me...... they are my children.

  Paris Hilton

  Children, Animal, World

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• When I was a kid, I was obsessed with different planets in the solar system, and I used to create, for every single planet, a different alien race with a certain kind of pet, a certain kind of house, a certain kind of water system, and everything.

  James Gunn

  Kids, Race, Water

  Source: collider.com

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• Millions of Americans own dogs, because they are good-natured, simple, and easily amused. I am referring here to the Americans. The dogs are not exactly Mensa members either, but they definitely make better pets than tropical fish.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Simple, Rivers

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• It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Dog, Athlete

  "Jesse Owens: Champion Athlete". Book by Tony Gentry, Heather Lehr Wagner, 2009.

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• Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. Im not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.

  Lori Foster

  Children, Eye, Focus

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• Miracle is the pet child of faith.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Miracle

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1859). “Faust: A Dramatic Poem”, p.51

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• I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Python, Television, Phases

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.161, Faber & Faber

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• Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care and feeding. Buying a machine has become more and more like buying a pet. ... We are time-crunched. Not just by the number of things we have to do, but the number of things we have. In the late twentieth century, things have become our new dependents.

  Ellen Goodman

  Numbers, Energy, Machines

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• If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. In this way it is only too easy to obtain what appears to be overwhelming evidence in favor of a theory which, if approached critically, would have been refuted.

  Karl Popper

  Looks, Favors, Want

  Karl Popper (2013). “The Poverty of Historicism”, p.124, Routledge

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• Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Men

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• Women if you want to realise yourselves - you are on the eve of a devastating psychological upheaval - all your pet illusions must be unmasked - the lies of centuries have got to go - are you prepared for the Wrench?

  Mina Loy

  Lying, Upheaval, Want

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• the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.

  Betsy Byars

  Growing Up, Real, Adults

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• I don't have a computer. I'm going to wait until that whole fad is over. I was suckered in on the Pet Rock. Not twice, people.

  Kathleen Madigan

  Rocks, People, Waiting

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• a daughter's love for a kind father ... is mixed with the careless happiness of childhood, which can never come again. Into the father's grave the daughter, sometimes a gray-haired woman, lays away forever the little pet names and memories which to all the rest of the world are but foolishness.

  Constance Fenimore Woolson

  Daughter, Memories, Father

  Constance Fenimore Woolson (2012). “Anne: A Novel”, p.129, The Floating Press

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• if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.

  Josephine Lawrence

  Hate, Racism, Prejudice

  Josephine Lawrence (1945). “Let Us Consider One Another”, New York ; London : . Appleton-Century

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• Mom used to say that having three boys was kind of like having a pet tornado that talked back.

  Marie Lu

  Mom, Boys, Tornadoes

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.45, Penguin

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• I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

  Tracy Morgan

  Strong, Powerful, Eels

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• Ill-fitted T-shirts stretched over a gut are my pet hate. And if the colour's faded - ugh.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Hate, Ugh, T Shirt

  "Five fashion minutes with... Joanne Froggatt". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 19, 2009.

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