Pet famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.
-- Adam Fletcher -
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
-- Agnes Sligh Turnbull -
Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.
-- Aldous Huxley -
It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.
-- Alexander Theroux -
Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
-- Alice Walker -
Here's my pet peeve: The not-so-unstated rule that all women are only to be treated as sexual objects and gawked at-you know, sitting up against a car, washing something, bending over, licking something. That just drives me crazy.
-- Alicia Keys -
Humans should always exercise and watch what they eat. So with your pet, make sure they get enough exercise, make sure they're getting fed at the same time every day and getting the nutrition they need. And make sure they get a lot of love and attention you both need. That's why you have them!
-- Alison Sweeney -
He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that metaphor).
-- Ally Carter -
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.
-- Amy Sedaris -
Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back.
-- Andy Biersack -
If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
-- Andy Rooney -
I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.
-- Anna Quindlen -
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
-- Anna Sewell -
He is very fond of me, almost too fond. I could do with less caressing and more rationality. I should like to be less of a pet and more of a friend, if I might choose; but I won't complain of that: I am only afraid his affection loses in depth where it gains in ardour. I sometimes liken it to a fire of dry twigs and branches compared with one of solid coal, very bright and hot; but if it should burn itself out and leave nothing but ashes behind.
-- Anne Bronte -
Pets are the world to me. I think they are the most obvious manifestations of divine love that we are going to see this side of eternity.
-- Anne Lamott -
The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
-- August Strindberg -
I really want a pet, and I really love animals.
-- Aurora Aksnes -
I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.
-- Benicio Del Toro -
Cats of good breed hunt better fat than lean.
-- Benvenuto Cellini -
the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.
-- Betsy Byars -
It's a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That's why it's a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are.
-- Betty White -
Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
-- Betty White -
I was in New York and I walked into this pet store and came out with a dog.
-- Beverley Mitchell -
My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
-- Billy Connolly -
Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.
-- Bob Barker -
The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.
-- Bob Hope -
I don't have any pets, so I get to walk around the house naked. So I'm more free.
-- Brendon Urie -
I fed my Yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21,0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female Yak. I made it my pet after that,
-- Brian Blessed -
I love pets and I love animals, and I just got a new puppy, a new rescue named Peanut. She's a tiny little Chihuahua mix.
-- Carrie Ann Inaba -
Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?
-- Cassandra Clare -
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 -
At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved, or being kind, nothing at all, less than nothing.
-- Charles Baxter -
Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.
-- Charles Brent -
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.
-- Charles M. Schulz -
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 -
The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects.
-- Chris Chocola -
May the IRS find that you deduct your pet sheep as an entertainment expense.
-- Christopher Moore -
Wow. Who would want a fish for a pet when they could have a turtle?!
-- Christopher Paul Curtis -
That you could fix me? What's more, that I could fix you? Well, Sorry, pet, I don't want to be fixed. - Caleb
-- CJ Roberts -
There is nothing, under present conditions, that can be more easily and exactly reproduced than a technically good black-and-white photograph, and it is utter rot to burden those interested in them with irrelevant biographical trivia and pet longwinded theory.
-- Clarence John Laughlin -
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 -
Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.
-- Connie Brockway -
I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.
-- Connie Stevens -
Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want.
-- Connie Stevens -
So maybe it’s just a part of who we all are, and always were. My worry now, though, is that we are starting to nurture these neuroses of ours, and treating them like pets. That can’t be a good thing.
-- Craig Finn -
Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves, mythical prohibitions and intractability? That is subversive. And welcome.
-- Craig Lancaster -
Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.
-- Damien Hirst -
Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.
-- Daniel Handler -
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 -
Dogs make good pets because they are very loyal
-- Dave Barry -
She pulls away, pats me on the shoulder with three mini-pats, like those used to pet reptiles.
-- Dave Eggers -
In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.
-- David Harsanyi -
As sisters, they probably have closer to 99 percent in common, but they’re not about to recognize that. They’d rather fight over what kind of pet they’re going to get … It’s an argument for its own sake.
-- David Levithan -
Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.
-- Dean Koontz -
...Pets are found to suffer from all the ailments known to the human...
-- Dick Gregory -
What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.
-- Dominic Monaghan -
Showing cats is addictive. All you need is one rosette and you're hooked.
-- Donna Andrews -
I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.
-- Donna Douglas -
I've got Flossie dog, and she is great. She and I are still in love, 14 years. That's a relationship that works.
-- Drew Barrymore -
Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
-- Earl Derr Biggers -
The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
There was a point when I almost gave up. I couldn't feed myself. I couldn't feed my pets.
-- Eleanor Mondale -
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
-- Eleanor Porter -
Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our cow, or take our pet lamb, and leave us homeless and penniless; but he cannot lay the law's hand upon the jewelry of our minds.
-- Elihu Burritt -
Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care and feeding. Buying a machine has become more and more like buying a pet. ... We are time-crunched. Not just by the number of things we have to do, but the number of things we have. In the late twentieth century, things have become our new dependents.
-- Ellen Goodman -
I don't treasure things much - just people. And pets.
-- Felicity Kendal -
In a print interview, as you may or may not know, they [editors] can do whatever they want. And they do. This is why most people are more hesitant to do print, because they can change it, and they do change it. They even change things that are in quotation marks, which is a pet peeve of mine. I've said to numerous reporters, "Would you read me back my direct quotes?" And they always say no. They always say that's against the policy.
-- Fran Lebowitz -
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
-- Fran Lebowitz -
How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.
-- Frances Hodgson Burnett -
Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
-- Frances Wright -
I had a little dog and my dog was very small....Of all the treasures that were mine, I loved him most of all.
-- Francis Cornford -
Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.
-- Francis Galton -
Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.
-- Francis of Assisi -
Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.
-- Gelett Burgess -
Who said you can not buy happiness, when you are thinking about puppies.
-- Gene Hill -
One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.
-- Glenn Howerton -
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
-- Haile Selassie -
Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.
-- Hal Sparks -
My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating - and he knows when to stop working.
-- Harry S. Truman -
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Saving just one pet won't change the world but surely the world will change for that one pet.
-- Hilary Swank -
I bring my dogs on set with me, and my little dog Karoo is smart as a whip. She knows where the craft-services food tables are, so anytime I can't find her, I know she has found her way to that area. She's a funny dog.
-- Hilary Swank -
Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.
-- Honore de Balzac -
I've been lucky. I've made films that I really like. It's been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I've gone after lots of things that I didn't get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, you're lucky if you get anything.
-- Hope Davis -
Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'
-- Ian Dunbar -
I came to the table, pulled up a chair, and sat. “Everyone brought a pet. I feel left out.†An enthusiastic howl broke the silence, and Grendel bounded through the doorway. He galloped through the steak house, skidded on the floor, smashed into my chair, and dropped a dead rat on my lap. Awesome.
-- Ilona Andrews
