Quotes About Dogs

And besides we were like wolves! We turned wolves into dogs and they turned us into humans— we were something like orangutans before, solitaries who didn't know how to work together, it was the wolves who taught us that, who taught us the idea of friendship and cooperation

Il timore che un cane possa far del male a un bambino è addirittura ridicolo; molto più giustificata è, semmai, la preoccupazione opposta che cioè il cane si lasci tropo strapazzare dai bambini, contribuendo così a educarli a una totale mancanza di riguardo nei suoi confronti.

Reformation with men and dogs never goes very deep.

The dog actors and the relationship they have with their trainers is one of the most beautiful things I've ever watched happen in front of me.

Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their companions in life. I wish I could believe that too.

Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible.

Understanding your dog and knowing how to control him, develop his potentials, and resolve behavior problems, emotional conflicts and frustrations are no less essential than love and respect.

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

You will respect my authori-tah!' Oberon said, in a passable imitation of Eric Cartman. I reminded him that I needed to concentrate. Sometimes dogs forget; they just get too excited.

Dogs that were most attentive to the needs and feelings of their human companions got extra care and food, and were more likely to survive.

but we have incontrovertible evidence of domesticated dogs from about 15,000 years ago. They may have joined the human pack thousands of years earlier.

I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers.

There is nothing funny about dogs playing poker. There is nothing remotely cute about animals with gambling problems. If you look closely at those paintings, you can tell that most of those dogs are playing with money they can't afford to lose. And sadder still, it takes seven of their dollars to make one of ours.

I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory; and when I arrived I was tired.

Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.

Cost to clean deeply soiled rugs: $200. Cost to replace shiny, black, stack-heeled, pilgrim-toed boots: $185. Cost to fix every single delicious table and chair leg in the house: $490. Life with two shelter dogs: fucking priceless.

For one moment the morning took you far out into vague chill, but your body snatched you back into its cosiness, back to the waiting dogs on the hill top. They could not follow out there, their world was walled, their noses trailed the earth. What a dog cannot hear or smell he distrusts; unless objects are close or move he does not observe them. His nature is to confirm what he sees by his sense of sound or of smell.

In the early morning the dogs burst from their sleeping quarters to bunch by the garden gate, panting for a race across Beacon Hill Park. Springs that wound themselves tighter and tighter in their bodies all night would loose with a whir on the opening of the garden gate. Ravenous for liberty, the dogs tore across the ball grounds at the base of Beacon Hill, slackened their speed to tag each other, wheeled back, waiting to climb the hill with me.

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs. -

Dogs did not waste time dwelling on the past, nor did they worry about the future. One could learn a great deal about positive thinking from them

But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, help me." 26 He answered, "It is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs." 27 She said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table." 28 Then Jesus answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish." And her daughter was healed instantly.

'Best in Show' legitimized me, and it was a great experience in Vancouver for six weeks with all those dogs!

Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.