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Quotes About Dogs

In one letter he also came up with a very specific scheme for using dogs as scouts. "They should be large, strong and fierce," he wrote, "and every dog led in a slip strong to prevent them tiring themselves by running out and in and discovering the party by barking at squirrels.
~ Walter Isaacson
I like dogs. If some evolutionist had told me that men had descended from canines I would have believed her. All the brotherly passion, fang-baring hunt lust, and fear I feel on a daily basis I see in dogs.
~ Walter Mosley
Santa Monica's only walkable if death is no hurdle. The air's the wrong colour. People put sunglasses on their dogs. It's a hideous place where humans are not welcome and those who stay suffer eight kinds of brain damage.
~ Warren Ellis
Meanwhile, the mole goes on with its subterranean daydreams, The dogs lie around like rugs
~ Charles Wright
Dog sighs are some form of distilled truth. What does he know? What do dogs know? Ed sighs like he knows the truth about me and he loves me anyway.
~ Charles Yu
I don't trust anybody in my life except my mother and my dogs.
~ Cheryl Cole
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~ Chiclet T. Dog
The World Health Organization announced that dogs cannot contract COVID-19. Canines previously held in quarantine may now be released. To summarize: WHO let the dogs out.
~ Internet meme, April 2020
Does your pet love you? Of course your pet loves you. (Qualifier: your pet can love you if it's a mammal or one of a few clades of birds, like a parrot. If your pet is a gecko or a python or a goldfish, your pet is probably incapable of love.) Love develops for every evolutionary pairing that requires devotion. We love our pets, and our pets love us. Dogs, in particular, are love generators who hang out with you and help you know that you're not alone. Dog is love, unmoored.
~ Heather E. Heying
We should draft dogs," he said. "People would say, 'But I love my dog; I wouldn't send him to Vietnam. He might get killed.
~ Lawrence Kushner
Miscavige keeps a number of dogs, including five beagles. He had blue vests made up for each of them, with four stripes on the shoulder epaulets, indicating the rank of Sea Org Captain. He insists that people salute the dogs as they parade by. The dogs have a mini-treadmill where they work out.
~ Lawrence Wright
People, Reacher was certain about. Dogs were different. People had freedom of choice. If a man or a woman ran snarling toward him, they did so because they chose to. They were asking for whatever they got. His response was their problem. But dogs were different. No free will. Easily misled. It raised an ethical problem. Shooting a dog because it had been induced to do something unwise was not the sort of thing Reacher wanted to do.
~ Lee Child
Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.
~ Leo Rosten
I love dogs, not chimps. Some chimps are nice, and some are horrid. I don't actually think of them as animals any more than I think of us as animals, although both of us are.
~ Jane Goodall
A Jack Russell was about making noise, killing small animals and dragging their carcasses into the house, attacking much larger dogs, refusing to be house-trained, and in all other ways living a primitive life.
~ Jane Smiley
I heard about them Rangers on TV," Grandma said. "I heard they get dogs pregnant." -Grandma Mazur
~ Janet Evanovich
I don't care that you're short. I like lots of things that are short. Little dogs and daffodils. I hate you because you're mean as a snake. Would it kill you to be nice?
~ Janet Evanovich
By the time I questioned Briggs late this afternoon, there were only two dogs that hadn't been adopted. And he wanted to keep those two. And he said to tell you he got the job. He's the new weatherman on the evening news. Some cable station. I didn't get all the details. Might have been the local Fox affiliate.
~ Janet Evanovich
I don't exercise. I just walk my dogs and run up and down the stairs every day because I've got a big house so you have to do that constantly. That's my exercise. Oh and dancing, I like dancing.
~ Lady Colin Campbell
Good Viking genes, being vegetarian and having rowdy dogs and kids definitely keep me in shape. Not eating meat gives me the energy I need to keep up with work, family and travel - I'm very active.
~ Pamela Anderson
All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.
~ Shannen Doherty
If you want to be liked, get a dog. The people you work with are not your friends.
~ Deborah Norville
After working from home with the dogs, Ive learned of the hair splinter: when stiff dog hairs pierce the soles of your feet.
~ Sohla El-Waylly
There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.
~ Angus Young