Pet Quotes - Page 17

• I am a community activist, philanthropist, breast cancer survivor, advocate and founder and board chair of the Thelma D. Jones Breast Cancer Fund. I am also a parent, grandparent, and a doting pet owner.

  Thelma Jones

  Cancer, Grandparent, Community

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they tend to be either depicted in a very sentimental way, where everybody has a heart of gold except for the villains you're supposed to hiss at, or there's a sort of indie-style version... When it's done well, it's brilliant, it's Blue Velvet. But when it's done poorly, it feels like shooting fish in a barrel, just saying, "Ooh, scary suburbs."

  Greg Mottola

  Heart, Scary, Gold

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• I write like anyone involved with a family and a full time job: in stolen moments. I've had to adapt because I have so little writing time, so I write while dinner bubbles on the stove, and get away to cafes when I can. It is good to have a small laptop to haul around. I wish I could admit to bizarre writing habits, you know, like "I can only write in the presence of my favorite pet elephant, who is my fount of inspiration," but the truth, alas, is far more mundane.

  Vandana Singh

  Inspiration, Writing, Wish

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• Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.

  Diane Ackerman

  Garden, Boston, House

  Diane Ackerman (2014). “The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us”, p.62, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

  Steve Allen

  Funny, Dog, Smoking

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• Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds lots of people up, particularly because famous Christians pronounce on the life of the poor from their very lovely affluent homes filled with their very lovely families and attractive pets.

  Jo Brand

  Christian, Home, Wind

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• The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.

  Margaret Cho

  Victim, Crisis, Foreclosure

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• The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

  James Cromwell

  Attitude, Animal, Suffering

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• A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.

  Sloane Crosley

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Looks, Rats, Way

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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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, Way

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• I try not to wear anything I have to fidget with - there's nothing worse than wearing something and pulling down the hem and re-adjusting the top. My pet hate is when girls wear those strapless dresses and spend the whole night yanking them up.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Girl, Hate, Night

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• I have a Lab, it's fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it's fun.

  George Eads

  Dog, Fun, Hiking

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• I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now.

  Tom Felton

  Nice, Littles, Tanks

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• Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, 'Hi' to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.

  Al Franken

  Dog, Eye, People

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• The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Funny Love, Dog, Men

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• Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Motivational, Laughter

  Lectures on the English Comic Writers "On Wit and Humor" (1818)

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• It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets.

  Tippi Hedren

  Cat, Insanity, Missions

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• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  O. Henry

  Life, Adversity, Made

  Four Million (1906) "Gift of the Magi"

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• In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

  Edward Hoagland

  Dog, Nature, Silly

  Edward Hoagland (1976). “Red Wolves and Black Bears”, Random House Incorporated

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• Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and endless, tedious detail. The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage.

  Simon Hoggart

  Children, Holiday, Years

  "Glad tidings we bring ..." by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2004.

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• A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

  Samuel Johnson

  Horse, Criticism, May

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 263, n. 3 (1754)

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• Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Inspirational, Nature, Animal

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• Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Abuse, Pests, Cages

  "Inside the Minds of Animals" by Jeffrey Kluger, content.time.com. August 5, 2010.

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