Pet Quotes - Page 11

• ... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

  Phyllis Bottome

  Support, Degrade

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.13, Northwestern University Press

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• I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise I am a cinch to feed.

  Laurie Colwin

  Food, House, Want

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• Indians still consider the whites a brutal people who treat their children like enemies - playthings, too, coddling them like pampered pets or fragile toys, but underneath always like enemies, enemies that must be restrained, bribed, spied upon, and punished. They believe that children so treated will grow up as dependent and immature as pets and toys, and as angry and dangerous as enemies within the family circle, to be appeased and fought.

  Mari Sandoz

  Children, Growing Up, Believe

  Mari Sandoz (1959). “Hostiles and Friendlies: Selected Short Writings of Mari Sandoz”, p.32, U of Nebraska Press

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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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• 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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• I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.

  Chris Pratt

  Running, Light, Ecosystems

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Men are kids at heart. They want to be nourished and pet like a dog.

  Nicki Minaj

  Dog, Heart, Kids

  "Nicki Minaj dishes out relationship advice: Men want to be ‘pet like a dog’". www.foxnews.com. July 09, 2013.

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• My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

  Vince Vaughn

  Mom, Dad, Names

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• I was raised in a strict Southern household in Lexington, South Carolina, and I remember sneaking off to watch Pet Cemetery as a kid. After seeing those animals reincarnate, I screamed and couldnt sleep for weeks, but watched it again and again.

  Jessica Stroup

  Sleep, Kids, Animal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops... Eventually companion animals would be phased out.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Thinking, Would Be

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• Will we be the gods? Will we be the family pets? Or will we be ants that get stepped on? I don't know about that ... But when I got that thinking in my head about if I'm going to be treated in the future as a pet to these smart machines ... well I'm going to treat my own pet dog really nice.

  Steve Wozniak

  Dog, Nice, Smart

  "Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak on the Apple Watch, Electric Cars and the Surpassing of Humanity". Interview with Paul Smith, www.afr.com. March 23, 2015.

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• In a print interview, as you may or may not know, they [editors] can do whatever they want. And they do. This is why most people are more hesitant to do print, because they can change it, and they do change it. They even change things that are in quotation marks, which is a pet peeve of mine. I've said to numerous reporters, "Would you read me back my direct quotes?" And they always say no. They always say that's against the policy.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Editors, People, Quotation Marks

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2011.

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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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• The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, contrast sharply with the much trickier dealings with members of their own species.

  Frans de Waal

  Children, Unconditional Love, Animal

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• Why would you want to do anything else but rescue a pet?

  Paul Shaffer

  Want, Rescue

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• When Martha first met me, I was anxious and jumpy. I was always tapping my foot, rocking, or exhibiting some other behavioral aberration. Of course, now we know that's just normal Aspergian behavior, but back then other people thought it was weird, so of course I did, too. One day, for some reason, she decided to try petting my arm, and I immediately stopped rocking and fidgeting. The result was so dramatic, she never stopped. It didn't take long for me to realize the calming effect, too. I like being petted and scratched. "Can you pet me?" I say when I sit next to her.

  John Elder Robison

  Feet, Calming Effect, Long

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• In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.

  David Harsanyi

  Rocks, Imagination, Beloved

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• I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.

  David Nicholls

  Taken, Hands, Phones

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• So many people have that relationship. The companionship. The connection. To our - to other beings, our pets. I hate to call them pets. But you know, to other creatures that we share our lives with.

  Keanu Reeves

  Hate, People, Connections

  Source: screenrant.com

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• My biggest pet peeve is when a girl says, "I'm not into drama." Why are you even mentioning it?! That's dramatic in itself!

  Chris D'Elia

  Girl, Drama, Peeves

  "Whitney's Chris D'Elia Is Back With More Relationship Advice". Interview with Annie Gabillet, www.popsugar.com. February 14, 2012.

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• Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

  Franz Kafka

  Paradise, Firsts, Adam

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.

  Cynthia Rylant

  Beauty, Sweet, Art

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• People do not get tired out from working where work is intelligently handled. Work, if it is interesting, is a stimulant. It's worry and a lack of interest in what one does that tire and discourage. Every one of us should have our pet interests-as many as we can handle efficiently and happily. Our interests should never be allowed to lag or get cold so that all enthusiasm is spent. Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up to your interests-feeding them as they feed you!

  George Matthew Adams

  Work, Tired, Should Have

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• Why is it that the Rev. Jesse Jackson can quote the Bible in support of his pet causes, but conservative ministers and lay people must argue purely on secular grounds for their social and political agenda?... It seems that mixing religion and politics is acceptable as long as the road turns to the left.

  Gary DeMar

  Christian, Religious, Long

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