Quotes on Pet

Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets?

A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.

Some marriages are made in heaven, Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

Even our pets can become idols.

I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

I certainly believe that we have a moral obligation to care for the dogs, cats, and other nonhumans whose existence we have caused or facilitated as part of the institution of 'pet' ownership. But I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.

When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.