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Quotes About Dog

Do you think 'Duke' is a good name?' she asked. His face blanked for a second before it cleared. He glanced at the dog in consideration. 'I don't think so. He would outrank me.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral.
~ Elizabeth Pena
Impudent dog! God knows why I bear with you!' Harding grinned. 'Probably, sir. Omniscient, isn't He?
~ Elizabeth Rolls
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery, if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just Tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog.
~ Elizabeth Speller
Todavía me observó, pensativa, y luego se puso en pie para buscar en uno de los estantes. Mientras lo hacía, el perro —era una perra— se alzó sobre sus patas, me dio una vuelta alrededor y volvió a tumbarse con indiferencia en el mismo sitio que antes.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
~ Austin O'Malley
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
~ Author Unknown
There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I have my golden retriever now, Pontiac. He's a career-change guide dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind.
~ Betty White
I've had a guide dog since 1969. Not the same one, of course: I've had five.
~ David Blunkett
You're such a big liar you gotta get your neighbor to call your dog.
~ Garrison Keillor
The Dog was a different matter. She was new, or so old that any book that told of her was long since dust. The creature in the fog thought the latter.
~ Garth Nix
Mmmmmm, said Ardent [the Royal Dog]. He liked cooked food. Also raw food and semicooked food, and things that might be food and so were worth chewing on for a while to make sure they weren't food.
~ Garth Nix
He had read somewhere that wolves could eat up to twenty pounds of meat in a single meal and he thought the dog was coming close. She . . . just . . . kept . . . eating.
~ Gary Paulsen
Then she dropped like a stone and was asleep when her head hit the ground, sound asleep, gone. Brian smiled and squatted by the fire and studied the dog sleeping.
~ Gary Paulsen
It was all new, the bond, and he wondered how he could have lived his whole life and never had this, never had this closeness with another species, with a dog. It had been a great loss. He decided he would never be without a dog again.
~ Gary Paulsen
Brindled, patches of hair gone, one ear folded over ad the other standing straight and notched from fighting. He didn't seem to be any particular breed. Just big and rangy, right on the edge of ugly, though I would come to think of him as beautiful. He was Airedale crossed with hound crossed with alligator.
~ Gary Paulsen
Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps.
~ Gary Snyder
You see, you have found some comfort here. You are worried about your poor dog because he is lame. But he, too, may have found hospitality. You love him, so another may love him. You love him, so you may love another.
~ Gene Wolfe
The first thing I do each morning is get out of bed and give my dog, Audrey, a hug. She's a Jack Russell. I think having an animal is a wonderful thing, particularly dogs. They are great levelers, there's no nonsense with them, and they just want simple affection.
~ Donatella Versace
Myself and some kids on our estate became obsessed with the creation of the ultimate go-kart. This ambition culminated in the creation of a six-man super-cart, which was essentially a plank of wood with four wheels, and a failed attempt to jump a tributary of the River Severn powered only by Rex, our dog.
~ Greg Davies
Scooby's the greatest cartoon character ever. He isn't cute like Mickey or smart like Bugs or fearless like Woody and Buzz - he's a talking dog who's more human than I am. It's his humanity and imperfections that make him special.
~ James Gunn
It is rewarding beyond words to rescue a dog from the shelter and have that dog become part of your family.
~ Jenna Morasca
The animal birth control and anti-rabies programmes, which are under the threat of being altered or discontinued, need to be strengthened in order to address the issue of the stray dog menace.
~ Amala Akkineni