Stray Dogs Quotes

• Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Dog, Animal

  "Music for Chameleons (A Beautiful Child)". Book by Truman Capote, 1980.

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• However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

  Jean Anouilh

  Dog, Eye, World

  Jean Anouilh (1966). “The Collected Plays [Jean Anouilh]”, London : Methuen, 1966- .

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• Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

  Anatole France

  Love, Inspiring, Dog

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

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• We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  Immanuel Kant

  Dog, Heart, Animal

  "True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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  The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

  Johnny Depp

  Love, Dog, Baby

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

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• Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

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• Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Love, Life, Birthday

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• Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

  Agatha Christie

  Wise, Wisdom, Dog

  Agatha Christie (2010). “The Moving Finger (Miss Marple)”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• Resentments are like stray dogs,if you don't pet them, they will go away.

  Sandi Bachom

  Dog, Anger, Pet

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• I'm still useful in my capacity as an arts educator and caretaker for the stray dogs.

  Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

  Dog, Art, Educator

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Time Enough for Love". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1973.

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• My fear was like a stray dog, roving the neighborhood of my life, looking for a new source of worry.

  Danzy Senna

  Dog, Fear, Worry

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• I find solace in animals. I have got a stray dog at home called Candy. I picked it up while I was waiting at the airport one day. I always wanted to have a 'macho' dog but got this sweet little thing instead.

  Randeep Hooda

  Dog, Sweet, Home

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• Warren Beatty was one hell of a lover - but we fought like stray dogs

  Leslie Caron

  Dog, Lovers, Hell

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• The story [of Allied] stayed with me, like a stray dog outside the office, waiting.

  Steven Knight

  Dog, Office, Waiting

  Source: collider.com

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  Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.

  Waylon Jennings

  Dog, Baby, Soul

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• But I was thinking about this, the Obamas want to adopt a stray dog from the pound. And I think that is admirable. I believe the last president to bring a stray dog into the White House got impeached.

  David Letterman

  Dog, Believe, Thinking

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• When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring.

  Michael Leunig

  Dog, Song, Lying

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• Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Animal, Car

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.118, Crown Archetype

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• The city might be savage, stray dogs might share the streets with grimy urchins whose blank eyes reflected the knowledge that they might soon be covered over, blinded forever, by the same two pennies just begged from some gentleman, and no one in the fuming, fulminous boulevards of trade might know who actually ran Ambergris-or, if anyone ran it at all, but, like a renegade clock, it ran on and wound itself heedless, empowered by the insane weight of its own inertia, the weight of its own citizenry.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Dog, Eye, Cities

  Jeff Vandermeer (2007). “City of Saints and Madmen”, p.65, Spectra

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• A friend told me of visiting the Dalai Lama in India and asking him for a succinct definition of compassion. She prefaced her question by describing how heart-stricken she'd felt when, earlier that day, she'd seen a man in the street beating a mangy stray dog with a stick. "Compassion," the Dalai Lama told her, "is when you feel as sorry for the man as you do for the dog."

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Dog, Sorry, Heart

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• A stray dog, I might understand," she said. "But this? You are too softhearted." No, Mabry," Ravus said. "I am not." He looked in Val's direction. "I think she wants to die." Maybe you can help her after all," Mabry said. "You're good at helping people die.

  Holly Black

  Dog, Thinking, People

  Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• I have to deal with seven ex-stray dogs, and one ex-stray cat. One dog is nearing nineteen years old. Before I go to teach, he likes for me to tell him bedtime stories.

  George Singleton

  Dog, Cat, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

  Jeff Valdez

  Funny, Dog, Cat

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

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