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Quotes About Dog

The Surly One 1 When true love broke my heart in half, I took the whisky from the shelf, And told my neighbors when to laugh. I keep a dog, and bark myself. 2 Ghost cries out to ghost – But who's afraid of that? I fear those shadows most That start from my own feet.
~ Theodore Roethke
If you'd rather spend the holidays with your friends or your dog or digging wells in Kenya than with your family, do it.
~ Jen Sincero
My daughters are in kindergarten and second grade, so many of the stories they tell, write, or illustrate are about each other and our dog, Buster.
~ Doreen Cronin
I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do.
~ Betty White
My Instagram is basically all knitting, my dog, and a little bit of 'The Defenders.'
~ Krysten Ritter
I'm a small dog guy. I don't want to be pattin' with the big Rottweiler or Great Dane. I like those little guys that jump on your lap and don't knock you over when they do.
~ Joe Garagiola
In direct address, a noun names the person (or the dog) being spoken to.
~ Karen Elizabeth Gordon
They say despair is a terrible thing, but hope is worse: it keeps you shackled for ever, like a dog in a wheel, always running, but never able to go anywhere, save round and round.
~ Karen Maitland
Have you been in a fight? No, let me guess; you saved a wounded dog, again?" I said dryly. That was the excuse he'd used last time. "I had a nosebleed." "Nosebleed, my petunia." "Petunia?" "Ass, Barrons. As in you are one.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Werewolves? Oh please, just plain stupid. Who wants to get it on with a man ruled by his inner dog?
~ Karen Marie Moning
Werewolves? Oh please, just plain stupid. Who wants to get it on with a man who's ruled by his inner dog? As if all men aren't anyway, even without the lycanthrope gene.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I squinted. "What's that on your hand, Barrons? Blood?" He started, glanced at me, then at his hand. "Ah yes," he said, as if remembering, "I was out for a walk. There was a badly injured dog in the street. I returned it to its owner's shop to die.
~ Karen Marie Moning
A man who has grown up in an orphanage cannot take a dog to the pound. Even if it is a Chihuahua.
~ Karin Slaughter
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
~ Karl Kraus
To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.
~ Karl Kraus
The most popular cure for leprosy in the Middle Ages was bathing in the blood of a dog. If a dog wasn't available, a two-year-old child's blood would do.
~ Karl Shaw
When a dangerous dog falls ill, who will come to help?
~ Kate Grenville
I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.
~ G. K. Chesterton
Necessity has the face of a dog.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You're scaring the dog," Trish pointed out. She rarely called me by name. They do that in prisoner of war camps, I've heard. Depersonalization.
~ Garth Stein
That's not just a dog, there. That's your yék. Your spirit helper. He came to protect you.
~ Garth Stein
I remember! This documentary said that after a dog dies, his soul is released into the world around us. His soul is released to run in the wild, run through the fields, enjoy the earth, the wind, the rivers, the rain, the sun, the… It's okay… They will see.
~ Garth Stein
Some pets may be more deeply missed than others. In a study at the University of Pennsylvania, trained bereavement counselors were paired with people who were mourning for their pets in an effort to understand more about this kind of loss. The research showed that individuals who lose a cat may have a more severe grief reaction and need greater follow-up than those who lose a dog.
~ Gary Kowalski
Ginger is not distracted by the way things could be, used to be, or should be. She perceives only what is. Our reliance on the intuition of a dog is often a way to find permission to have an opinion we might otherwise be forced to call (God forbid) unsubstantiated.
~ Gavin de Becker