Pet Quotes - Page 27

• I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.

  Damien Hirst

  Thinking, America, Want

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• Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow.

  Carol Anshaw

  Sorrow, Contracts

  Carol Anshaw (2012). “Lucky in the Corner: A Novel”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some of the lowest-paid workers in this nation are people that we ask to watch the next generation of Americans. We do a better job insisting that your pets are cared for in this country than your children are, and there ought to be a sense of outrage about that.

  Christopher Dodd

  Country, Jobs, Children

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• Animals of every kind live on the Other Side, .. you are not crazy if you feel the spirit of your cat rubbing against your legs, hear the sound of your dog's toenails clicking on the wood floor, or hear the familiar song your bird used to sing. Our pets do come back to visit us.

  Sylvia Browne

  Dog, Song, Crazy

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• You can also hurt a dog if it's insecure, if a dog is nervous and then you try to pet him, you can make him more nervous. It's not just the aggressive dogs that you can get hurt. It's also the dogs that you can actually hurt. It works both ways.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Hurt, Insecure

  Interview with David Morris, www.askmen.com. February 27, 2015.

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• My sister wanted a cat for a pet... I wanted a dog, so they bought a cat and taught it to bark.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Dog, Humor

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• That's actually one of the most disappointing things about doing user interviews and user feedback, which is why I think... people don't do it. You're going to get negative news about your favorite pet feature most of the time.

  Emmett Shear

  Thinking, People, Negative

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• One of my pet peeves is that when people are in their automobiles, I think they're exceptionally rude on the road. I would love to have the superpower to make their cars break down after they do something rude on the road so the freeways would be littered with these jackasses who have broken-down cars.

  Chris Carmack

  Thinking, Car, People

  "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.

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• Silence is golden for me. I live in the country and hear only my pets, birds, crickets, and the wind in the trees.

  Franny Armstrong

  Country, Wind, Silence

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• "Love covers a multitude of sins," (I Pet. 4:8). That is, for love towards one's neighbor, God forgives the sins of the one who loves.

  Theophan the Recluse

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

  Theophile Gautier

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dog

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• Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.

  Andrew Lang

  Cat, Animal, Contemplative Life

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• Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

  George Chapman

  Funny, Friendship, Dog

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.231

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• Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

  Samuel Butler

  Nature, Men, Animal

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• We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet.

  Pam Brown

  Lonely, Sibling, Home

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• Beasts kill for hunger, men for pay.

  John Gay

  Animal, Men, Pay

  John Gay (1805). “Gay's Fables, etc”, p.23

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  There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

  Aeschylus

  Missing You, Pain, Memories

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• As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

  Cleveland Amory

  Patience, Cat, Owning A Pet

  Cleveland Amory (1995). “Cleveland Amory's Compleat Cat: Three Volumes in One”, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub

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• Action is the antidote to despair.

  Joan Baez

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Joan Baez 75th Birthday Concert: Four Days Before The Iowa Voting, A Double Shot Of Espresso" by Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2016.

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• The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

  William Blake

  Nature, Moving, Eye

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin

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• I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Funny, Sarcastic, Hate

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• Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

  Cher

  Girl, Money, Pounds

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• Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

  Mason Cooley

  Lonely, Cat, Anxious

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• I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

  Marie Corelli

  Funny, Marriage, Wedding

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