John Grogan Dog Quotes

#1. Owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.

John Grogan

#2. That's why I liked him, I think. Another guy pretending to be human, just like me.

Jeff Lindsay

#3. It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.

John Grogan

#4. We have gasoline at $2 a gallon. If that doesn't drive demand, I don't know what will.

Jennifer Granholm

#5. Mankind will not be perfect until it can create and destroy like God. It can already destroy: that's half the battle.

Alexandre Dumas

#6. Have they known scorn like you
Five cellars down?

E.A. Bucchianeri

#7. Note to self: I take entirely too much pleasure in causing bodily harm to others.

Adrianne Brooks

#8. A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.

John Grogan

#9. A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated of illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. It was really quite simple, and yet we humans, so much wiser and more sophisticated, have always had trouble figuring out what really counts and what does not.

John Grogan

#10. The candidates at the Republican debate looked like a town council that was outlawing dancing. They looked like a board of directors that was lying about poisoning a river.

David Letterman

#11. Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more.

Ivan Panin

#12. Certain people are not going to connect with a book about the effect a dog has on a family. But every one of us has parents and has either said goodbye to those parents or knows that someday they will.

John Grogan

#13. A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

John Grogan

#14. Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.

Vicente Fox

#15. I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.

Stef Penney

#16. Youth is about promise.

Don Lee

#17. There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.

John Grogan

#18. We need not think alike to love alike.

David Francis

#19. In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us.

John Grogan

#20. The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. I happen to have a certain fondness for existing
soda wouldn't have that lovely fizzy feeling if you were dead. Think of all the things you would miss: Cartoons, music, movies, video games, music, art, fingernail growth, sex ... well, perhaps not sex, depending on how weird your mortician is.

Jhonen Vasquez