Family Pets Quotes

• Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.

  George Carlin

  Family, Pet, Hobbies

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• A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

  Robert Benchley

  Dog, Perseverance, Lying

  Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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• A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Funny, Family, Sad

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.1117, Race Point Pub

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• Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

  Thornton Wilder

  Love, Heartbreak, Dog

  Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

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• Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

  Tennessee Williams

  Family, Reality, Enthusiasm For Life

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• This principle applies to your family pet, for instance, which I believe are wonderful because they put you into a great emotional state. When you feel love for your pet, that's a great state of love that's going to bring goodness into your life, what a gift that is.

  James Arthur Ray

  Believe, Emotional, Law Of Attraction

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• And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Morning, Thinking, Elephants

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• It's a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That's why it's a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are.

  Betty White

  Years, Track, Pet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Will we be the gods? Will we be the family pets? Or will we be ants that get stepped on? I don't know about that ... But when I got that thinking in my head about if I'm going to be treated in the future as a pet to these smart machines ... well I'm going to treat my own pet dog really nice.

  Steve Wozniak

  Dog, Nice, Smart

  "Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak on the Apple Watch, Electric Cars and the Surpassing of Humanity". Interview with Paul Smith, www.afr.com. March 23, 2015.

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• The man behind the check-in counter gives the impression that he has just axe-murdered the motel's owner (and family, and family pet) and is going through these procedures of hostelry so as not to arouse suspicion.

  Paul Quarrington

  Men, Giving, Pet

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• I miss dogs, man. I always had a family pet, always had a dog growing up. It was almost equivalent to the prison sentence, having something taken away from me for three years. I want a dog just for the sake of my kids, but also me. I miss my companions.

  Michael Vick

  Dog, Growing Up, Taken

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• Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner

  Louise Penny

  Horse, Years, Pet

  Louise Penny (2008). “Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.2, Macmillan

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• All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.

  Lena Dunham

  People, Dating, Pet

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• Fans believe they have a relationship with you, either through your TV character or, more reasonably, through the tweets you may have exchanged. In a way, you have gotten to know them. You learn about people's kids, families, pets.

  Gina Bellman

  Believe, Character, Kids

  "Gina Bellman on Leverage: 'Fandom is a world with no prejudice'". www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2013.

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