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Quotes About Dogs

Like the rooftop dogs, they were lost souls—they were running wild, or they drifted around town like ghosts.
~ John Irving
Albanian dogs go "ham ham." In Catalan, dogs go "bup bup." The Chinese dogs say "wang wang," the Greek dogs go "gav gav," the Slovenians "hov hov," and the Ukrainians "haf haf." In Iceland, it's "voff," in Indonesia, it's "gong gong," and in Italian, it's "bau bau.
~ John Lloyd
Rumors spread that dogs carried influenza. The police began killing all dogs on the street. And people began killing their own dogs, dogs they loved, and if they had not the heart to kill them themselves, they gave them to the police to be killed.
~ John M. Barry
Dogs experience the world as it is, without judgement. When we learn to do the same, we make the world a better place.
~ Cesar Millan
I want people to understand there is a such a thing as creating a harmonious experience between the dogs and the humans.
~ Cesar Millan
We call our worst enemies dogs, but they don't deserve it because dogs are the friends of man.
~ Unknown
before being stabbed, strangled and cremated; men hanged with dogs and horses in sacred groves.
~ Unknown
See with what heat these Dogs of Hell advance To waste and havoc yonder World.
~ John Milton
Some of the silly sheep got caught fast in a tangle of chaparral this morning, like flies in a spider's web, and had to be helped out. Carlo found them and tried to drive them from the trap by the easiest way. How far above sheep are intelligent dogs! No friend and helper can be more affectionate and constant than Carlo. The noble St. Bernard is an honor to his race.
~ John Muir
Well, I thought Johnson would have told you, but somebody's snatching our dogs. A drunk at the front of the bar, who'd turned around on his barstool to watch the meeting, called, Better'n having your snatch dogged.
~ John Sandford
It takes a certain kind of dog to willingly demote himself from alpha dog, and that dog was Carl. Holloway would have to speak to him about it, for what little good it would do, Carl being a dog and all.
~ John Scalzi
The paintings on the wall were largely preoccupied with the amazing heroism of large dogs faced with imperiled children. Nor water nor fire nor earthquake could do in a child so long as a big dog was available.
~ John Steinbeck
But from the start I had withheld from him any information about the giant redwoods. It seemed to me that a Long Island poodle who had made his devoirs to Sequoia sempervirens or Sequoia gigantea might be set apart from other dogs--might even be like that Galahad who saw the Grail. The concept is staggering.
~ John Steinbeck
It wasn't my fault. I'm innocent. Why won't these dogs believe me?
~ John Swartzwelder
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
~ Johnny Depp
A young dog's faith is absolute... Dogs are notorious for hope. Dogs believe that this morning, this very morning, may begin a day of fascination, easily grander than any day in the past.
~ Donald McCaig
I am surrounded by my family, my beloved grandchildren, and my pack of dogs.
~ Christine Feehan
At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor difference between shooting a dog and shooting a man.
~ Dinaw Mengestu
I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.
~ Diane Abbott
If you are truly fearless as a performer, than you don't fear kids or dogs.
~ Thomas Haden Church
People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I like dogs Big dogs Little dogs Fat dogs Doggy dogs Old dogs Puppy dogs I like dogs A dog that is barking over the hill A dog that is dreaming very still A dog that is running wherever he will I like dogs.
~ Unknown
The fear of dogs is deep and universal amongst all that are less than Man.
~ Lord Dunsany
When you have a certain fitness projection, it's going to give you an advantage. Having strength, stamina and speed is important because I'm working with dogs who can kill me.
~ Cesar Millan