John Grogan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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
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
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
A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water logged stick will do just fine. A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he'll give you his. How many people can you say that about? How many people can make you feel rare and pure and special? How many people can make you feel extraordinary?
-- John Grogan

#Dog #Clever #Smart
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 #Adversity
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
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

#Home #Waiting #Pet
If you still think you're a young pup then you are, no matter what the calendar says
-- John Grogan

#Thinking #Pups #Calendars
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 #Giving
There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.
-- John Grogan

#Dog #Owners
Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.
-- John Grogan

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

#Sad #Dog #Long
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 #Letters #Six
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
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 #Sirens #Mouths
In a world of bosses, you are your own master
-- John Grogan

#Boss #World #Masters
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 weâ€™ve always said about you?â€ I whispered. â€œWhat a total pain you are? Donâ€™t believe it. Donâ€™t believe it for a minute, Marley.â€ 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,â€ I said. â€œYou are a great dog.
-- John Grogan

#Dog #Pain #Believe
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 #Legs
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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