Pet Quotes - Page 27

• That's actually one of the most disappointing things about doing user interviews and user feedback, which is why I think... people don't do it. You're going to get negative news about your favorite pet feature most of the time.

  Emmett Shear

  Thinking, People, Negative

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• One of my pet peeves is that when people are in their automobiles, I think they're exceptionally rude on the road. I would love to have the superpower to make their cars break down after they do something rude on the road so the freeways would be littered with these jackasses who have broken-down cars.

  Chris Carmack

  Thinking, Car, People

  "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.

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• Silence is golden for me. I live in the country and hear only my pets, birds, crickets, and the wind in the trees.

  Franny Armstrong

  Country, Wind, Silence

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• Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

  Theophile Gautier

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dog

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• Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.

  Andrew Lang

  Cat, Animal, Contemplative Life

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• We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet.

  Pam Brown

  Lonely, Sibling, Home

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• Beasts kill for hunger, men for pay.

  John Gay

  Animal, Men, Pay

  John Gay (1805). “Gay's Fables, etc”, p.23

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• Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dog, Rain, Abandoned

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• I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

  Mike Rutherford

  Moving, Communication, Leaving

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• To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.

  Ralph Boston

  Dog, Years, Kiev

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• And I strongly believe people should rescue dogs, or, at the very least, listen to Bob Barker and have your pet spayed or neutered.

  Justin Chambers

  Dog, Believe, People

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

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• I always hated those classic kid movies like Old Yeller or The Yearling where the beloved pet dies. What would be so wrong with having those damn kids learn their lessons about mortality from watching Grandpa kick? Then at least the dog would be around to comfort them.

  Merrill Markoe

  Dog, Kids, Grandpa

  Merrill Markoe (2006). “Walking in Circles Before Lying Down: A Novel”, p.208, Villard

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• The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that it no longer believes in its destiny, that it has ceased to aspire to greatness, and has retired from history to pet itself.

  Henry Fairlie

  Believe, Greatness, Destiny

  "Paralysis in a Risk-Free Society" by Henry Fairlie, www.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 1979.

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• The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty.

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Dog, Nice, Things In Life

  Barbara Woodhouse (1984). “No Bad Dogs: The Woodhouse Way”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our cow, or take our pet lamb, and leave us homeless and penniless; but he cannot lay the law's hand upon the jewelry of our minds.

  Elihu Burritt

  Knowledge, Hands, Law

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• I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a childrens author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.

  Rachel Corrie

  Mother, Teacher, Distance

  Rachel Corrie (2009). “Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie”, p.16, W. W. Norton & Company

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• As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

  Cleveland Amory

  Patience, Cat, Owning A Pet

  Cleveland Amory (1995). “Cleveland Amory's Compleat Cat: Three Volumes in One”, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub

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• One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

  Loren Eiseley

  Eye, Animal, Reflection

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.24, Library of America

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• Support your right to arm bears.

  Cleveland Amory

  Animal, Support, Arms

  Cleveland Amory (1974). “Man Kind?: Our Incredible War on Wildlife”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets?

  Annie Dillard

  Nature, Flower, Doe

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• Oh, what is the matter with poor Puggy-Wug? Pet him and kiss him and give him a hug. Run and fetch him a suitable drug. Wrap him up tenderly all in a rug. That is the way to cure Puggy-Wug.

  Winston Churchill

  Friendship, Running, Dog

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• Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

  Martha Scott

  Funny, Dog, Mistake

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• A meow massages the heart.

  Stuart McMillan

  Heart, Cat, Animal

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• There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.

  Champfleury

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

  Champfleury (1885). “The Cat, Past and Present”

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• A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather.

  Judith Merkle Riley

  Wall, Heart, Cat

  Judith Merkle Riley (2006). “A Vision of Light: A Margaret of Ashbury Novel”, p.251, Crown

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