Stray Dogs Quotes:

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

- Marilyn Monroe

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

topic: Inspirational, Dog, Animal, Inspirational Dog, I Love My Dog

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

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

topic: Dog, Eye, World, Stray Dogs

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

- Anatole France

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

topic: Love, Inspiring, Sibling, Inspirational Animal, Inspirational Dog

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

- Immanuel Kant

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

topic: Heart, Men, Animal, Man And Dog, Inspirational Animal

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

- Johnny Depp

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

topic: Love, Dog, Baby, Man And Dog, I Love My Dog

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

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Labrador Dogs, Stray Dogs

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Wisdom, Peace, Kindness, Human Will, Inspirational Dog

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

topic: Love, Life, Birthday, Inspirational Graduation, Milestone

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

topic: Wise, Wisdom, Dog, Man And Dog, Crawling

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

- Sandi Bachom

topic: Dog, Anger, Pet, Stray Dogs

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

- Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Dog, Art, Educator, Stray Dogs, Caretakers

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

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Love, Inspirational, Funny, Kitties, Inspirational Cat

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

- Danzy Senna

topic: Dog, Fear, Worry, Stray Dogs, Roving

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

topic: Dog, Sweet, Home, Stray Dogs

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

- Leslie Caron

topic: Dog, Lovers, Hell, Beatty, Stray Dogs

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

- Steven Knight

topic: Dog, Office, Waiting, Stray Dogs

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

topic: Baby, Dog, Soul, Lady Love, Stray Dogs

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

topic: Dog, Believe, Thinking, Stray Dogs

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

topic: Song, Dog, Lying, Stray Dogs, Clutch

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

topic: Dog, Car, Pet, Spaniels, Inspirational Dog

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

topic: Dog, Eye, Two, Stray Dogs, Renegades

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

topic: Dog, Sorry, Heart, Stray Dogs

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

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

topic: Dog, Thinking, People, Stray Dogs, Helping People

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

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Dog, Cat, Years, Stray Cats, Stray Dogs

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

- Jeff Valdez

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

topic: Dog, Cat, Eight, Inspirational Cat, Stray Dogs

I have a new little stray dog that I've had for about a month now. His name is Mikey Mohawk - he's this little terrier with a natural Mohawk. My friend found him hit by a car on Pico Boulevard.

- Krysten Ritter

source: "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Krysten Ritter". Interview with Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. March 27, 2012.

topic: Dog, Names, Car, Mikey, Stray Dogs

I watch the confusion of friends all numb with love moving like stray dogs to the anthem of night long conversations of pulsing rhythms and random voltage voices in spite of themselves graceful as these raindrops creeping spermlike across the car window.

- Bruce Cockburn

source: Song: You Pay Your Money and You Take Your Chance, Album: Inner City Front

topic: Friendship, Dog, Moving, Stray Dogs, Long Conversations

I should hate to be a regular girl with a sugar-plum voice. I should hate to have swan-like lashes, and a thick, sooty neck. I sound as though I’m joking, I know, but I should truly hate to be like Leanne, so charming and ordinary and stuffed with clichéd feelings. I’m glad I’m the ice maiden. Who wants to be crying over every stray dog? Not I. Scratch my surface and what do you see? More surface.

- Franny Billingsley

source: Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.157, A&C Black

topic: Girl, Dog, Hate, Stray Dogs

On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f ) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.

- Jorge Luis Borges

source: "The Analytical Language of JohnWilkins" (1942) (translation by Ruth L. C. Simms)

topic: Dog, Distance, Flower, Stray Dogs, Classification

Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live and die on the streets and beaches all over this Caribbean island of almost four million people.

- Juliana Hatfield

topic: Dog, Beach, Islands, Puerto Rico, Stray Dogs