Quotes on Dog

There are writers, and I know some of them, who are very disciplined. Who write, like, four pages a day, every day. And it doesn't matter if their dog got run over by a car that day, or they won the Irish sweepstakes. I'm not one of those writers.

You're never the same after you run the Iditarod, and I still lust to go out and run with dogs, even though I know that I shouldn't. But I'd give just about anything to be able to do it again. To see the horizon again from the back of a dog team would be wonderful.

When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude.

Who can say what heartbreaks are caused in a dog by our discontinuing a romp?

You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.

It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all the things his MAN and his WOMAN, and most of all his BOY, had asked or expected of him. He would have died for them, if that had been required. He had never wanted to kill anybody. He had been struck by something, possibly destiny, or fate, or only a degenerative nerve disease called rabies. Free will was not a factor.

But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

Without gospel truths, man's efforts to reach his goals are like the northbound explorer who drove his dog sled feverishly northward on an ice pack that was flowing southward - only to find himself farther from his destination at the end of a hard day's journey than he had been at dawn!

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

Allow your dog to take you for a walk every day. It's good for the body and it's good for the soul.

A real leader is not the top dog who merely shouts down orders. a leader is one who holds the space for the brilliance of others.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Show business is dog eat dog. It's worse than dog eat dog. It's dog doesn't return dog's phone calls.

The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.

If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.