John Grogan Quotes

Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky

John Grogan

Dog, Heart, Animal

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A dog has no use for fancy cars or big homes or designer clothes. Status symbols mean nothing to him. A waterlogged stick will do just fine. A dog judges others not by their color or creed or class but by who they are inside. A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.

John Grogan

Dog, Clever, Smart

"Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog". Book by John Grogan, October 18, 2005.

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It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.

John Grogan

Relationship, Dog, Oatmeal

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Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.

John Grogan

Dog, Laughter, Home

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A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.

John Grogan

Dog, Clever, Heart

"Fictional character: John Grogan". "Marley & Me", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.

John Grogan

Loyalty, Dog, Heart

John Grogan (2010). “Bad Dogs Have More Fun: Selected Writings on Family, Animals, and Life from the Philadelphia Inquirer”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.

John Grogan

Loyalty, Dog, Optimism

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Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.

John Grogan

Dog, Home, Owning A Pet

John Grogan (2012). “Marley & Me”, p.251, Hachette UK

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He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.

John Grogan

Art, Fall, Taught Us

John Grogan (2012). “Marley & Me”, p.255, Hachette UK

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Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.

John Grogan

Dog, Ifs

John Grogan (2008). “Marley & Me tie-in: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are.

John Grogan

Dog, Strong, Home

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Never slow down, never look back, live each day with adolescent verve and spunk and curiosity and playfulness. If you think you’re still a young pup, then maybe you are, no matter what the calendar says.

John Grogan

Thinking, Curiosity, Spunk

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Then I dropped my forehead against his and sat there for a long time, as if I could telegraph a message through our two skulls, from my brain to his. I wanted to make him understand some things. You know all that stuff we’ve always said about you?” I whispered. “What a total pain you are? Don’t believe it. Don’t believe it for a minute, Marley.” He needed to know that, and something more, too. There was something I had never told him, that no one ever had. I wanted him to hear it before he went. Marley,” I said. “You are a great dog.

John Grogan

Dog, Pain, Believe

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A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated of illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. It was really quite simple, and yet we humans, so much wiser and more sophisticated, have always had trouble figuring out what really counts and what does not.

John Grogan

Dog, Clever, Heart

John Grogan (2008). “Marley & Me tie-in: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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If you still think you're a young pup then you are, no matter what the calendar says

John Grogan

Thinking, Pups, Calendars

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There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.

John Grogan

Dog, Owners

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A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart.

John Grogan

Inspirational, Dog, Teacher

John Grogan (2010). “Bad Dogs Have More Fun: Selected Writings on Family, Animals, and Life from the Philadelphia Inquirer”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.

John Grogan

Inspirational, Loyalty, Dog

John Grogan (2010). “Bad Dogs Have More Fun: Selected Writings on Family, Animals, and Life from the Philadelphia Inquirer”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com

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In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us.

John Grogan

Dog, Fall, Joy

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A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

John Grogan

Dog, Children, Giving

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. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.

John Grogan

Sad, Dog, Long

John Grogan (2008). “Marley & Me tie-in: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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Just so you know Labrodor retrivers do not howl.Begals Howl.Wolves howl. Labs do not howl, at lestnot well. Marley attempted twice to howl, both times in answer to a passing police siren, tossing back his head, forming his mouth into an O shape, and letting loose the most pathetic sound Ihave ever heard, more like gargling than answering the call of the wild. Butnow,no question about it he was howling.

John Grogan

Police, Sound, Answers

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In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic. Twenty -six letters form the foundation of a free, informed society.

John Grogan

Magic, Foundation, Twenties

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Only then did I see. Something was amiss with Patrick's snap-on one piece, or "onesie" as we manly dads like to call it. His chubby thighs, I now realized, were squeezed into the armholes, which were so tight they must have been cutting off his circulation. The collared neck hung between his legs like an udder. Up top, Patrick's head stuck out through the unsnapped crotch, and his arms were lost somewhere in the billowing pant legs. It was quite a look.

John Grogan

Dad, Cutting, Looks

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In a world of bosses, you are your own master

John Grogan

Boss, World, Masters

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