"A little attention, a pat on the head, and a kind word every now and then is all your dog asks."

“Becoming a mother is the best thing that has ever happened to me, I am happy to once again be a part of National Adoption Day. We were matched with our daughter through the U.S. foster care system, and my goal is to share information about the more than 120,000 foster care children in this country who are waiting for a family.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.”

“In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.”

“My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.”

“For the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I was never fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I anything to offer my readers except my conviction that when pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.”

“I had no taste for defeat — much less victory — without a fight.”

“What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilisation concerns man's behaviour to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.”

Source : Edward Mayhew (1864). “The Illustrated Horse Management: Containing Descriptive Remarks Upon Anatomy, Medicine, Shoeing, Teeth, Food, Vices, Stables : Likewise a Plain Account of the Situation, Nature and Value of the Various Points : Together with Comments on Grooms, Dealers, Breeders, Breakers and Trainers : Also, on Carriages and Harness”, p.10

“Men's requirements of women are impossible and ridiculous and so destructive.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com