Quotes About Companion

My guitar was a loyal person to me.

I longed for the pitter-patter of little feet, so I got a dog. It's cheaper, and you get more feet.

Had it been just the two of us with the flock, I am sure it would have been a complete disaster. But Louie came with a helper, partner, friend, second brain: a border collie named (he must have wanted the similarities in names) Louise, and she quickly—after watching me for a moment and seeing how useless I was—took over completely.

I have seen their humor and anger expressed in natural terms and learned more about them as dogs and not just extensions of human training.

I have a friend, he thought—I have a friend now. A hungry friend, but a good one. I have a friend named fire.

Yes, he was found hanging in the third-floor cellar!" "It's the ghost!" little Giry blurted, as though in spite of herself; but she at once corrected herself, with her hands pressed to her mouth: "No, no!—I didn't say it!—I didn't say it!——" All around her, her panic-stricken companions repeated under their breaths: "Yes—it must be the ghost!" Sorelli was very pale.

I was a loner as a child. I had an imaginary friend - I didn't bother with him.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

Every lady ought to be a perfect horsewoman, that she may accompany her husband." "You see how widely we differ, Sir James. I have made up my mind that I ought not to be a perfect horsewoman, and so I should never correspond to your pattern of a lady.

There is a remnant still of last year's golden clusters of beehive-ricks rising at intervals beyond the hedgerows; and everywhere the hedgerows are studded with trees; (..) Just by the red-roofed town the tributary Ripple flows with a lively current into the Floss. How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice

She was no longer wresting with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

Sometimes I read about someone saying with great authority that animals have no intentions and no feelings, and I wonder, 'Doesn't this guy have a dog?'

I have a wonderful road manager, and he travels with me. And my valet and friend travels with me. My little entourage is great, and they take good care of me.

To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a thriving companion economy to compliment production agriculture in rural America.

Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.

No boy can resist being fed well by a good-natured and still handsome woman. Boys are very like nice dogs in this respect — give them a bone and they will like you at once.

boy can resist being fed well by a good-natured and still handsome woman. Boys are very like nice dogs in this respect — give them a bone and they will like you at once.

Whose red nose makes me ashamed to be seen with him.

What's that?" Ethan asked. "It's a book," Monster said. "I know it's a book. I meant, how's it supposed to help?" "Most answers can be found in books," Monster said solemnly. "As a wise man who wasn't Eleanor Roosevelt once said, 'Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.

it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

I make up different names for my cat all the time - Flapjack, Bowtie, Popcorn. But he's really, "Hey you, cat."

The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.

Most of the time when you see a movie, the best character in the movie is not "the guy," it's the guy next to the guy.

I'm not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they're really cute obviously. They are both wild and domestic at the same time.