Our Pets Quotes

#1. So many people have that relationship. The companionship. The connection. To our - to other beings, our pets. I hate to call them pets. But you know, to other creatures that we share our lives with.

Keanu Reeves

#2. We got no food, we got no jobs, our pets heads are falling off!

Lloyd

#3. It is their attachment to us rather than their independence from us that we value in our pets.

M. Scott Peck

#4. I think we all make our own families, whether they're comprised of blood relations or friends. Some people are lucky and love their families. Others aren't. But whom we spend time with is always a choice. Including our pets.

Jane Cleland

#5. We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. The professional cleaning industry estimates that 85 percent of the dirt we bring into our homes enters via our shoes or our pets' paws.

Christopher Gavigan

#7. Pet foods come in a variety of flavors because that's what humans like, and we assume our pets like what we like. We're wrong.

Mary Roach

#8. Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.
It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.

John Grogan

#9. Our pets are our family.

Ana Monnar

#10. Animals of every kind live on the Other Side, .. you are not crazy if you feel the spirit of your cat rubbing against your legs, hear the sound of your dog's toenails clicking on the wood floor, or hear the familiar song your bird used to sing. Our pets do come back to visit us.

Sylvia Browne

#11. Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing.

S. Jay Olshansky

#12. Let me assure you that all of our pets, and animals of every kind will be with us for eternity on the Other Side.

Sylvia Browne

#13. Our pets will never be with us for long enough, at least physically, but when they have been blessed with opportunity and been able to live a full life, how can we respond with anything less than pride and celebration?

Nick Trout

#14. I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets.

Kinky Friedman

#15. I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.

Gene Simmons

#16. Even our pets can become idols.

Billy Graham

#17. We sleep bent into pretzel shapes, our limbs arranged around our pets because we'd rather make an appointment with the chiropractor than disturb their purring slumber.

Meg Lambourne

#18. We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet.

Pam Brown

#19. And they go: Foxes are our favrit Animal. And I go: Thanks. And they go: Why o why were we so stupid as to choose Dogs for our mane Pets? And I go: I reely don't know.

George Saunders

#20. 'You have chickens?' That's what nearly everyone asks next, after they find out about our family pets. They just need to make sure they heard me correctly. Perhaps it's because I don't come across to most as a rural-loving farm girl.

Amy Robach

#21. The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.

Robert Breault

#22. Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.

Diane Ackerman

#23. Daisy didn't just change our lives, she changed our destiny.

Maryam Faresh

#24. Go home, kiss your wives, hug your children and put your affairs in order, because tomorrow I will burn your neighborhood to the ground. We will kill you, your families, your neighbors, your pets, and anyone who will stand in our path. An attack on my family will not go unpunished.

Ilona Andrews

#25. Some people say that their pets will tell them when it's time to go. I don't believe that. No animal of mine has ever told me he was ready to die. I wish it were that simple. Dogs can communicate, but they cannot talk, nor do they think in our language or on our terms.

Jon Katz

#26. Who knows what the long-term effects of saving rescue dogs are and the healing lessons and love they bring to Earth? Each one of us has the capacity to influence hundreds - even thousands of people or animals through the way we live our lives.

Jadi Kindred

#27. Shall we all open our heart to be a forever home for lost pets.

Martha Steward

#28. The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

James Cromwell

#29. There are so many great animals in our local shelters that people don't really know about. Annually, two to four million animals are euthanized, and we can bring that number down significantly by going to our local shelter and adopting and also by spaying and neutering your pets.

Beth Ostrosky Stern

#30. Pets bring vital energy to our homes and lives. Pets communicate many messages about love and connection. Care tenderly for all pets throughout their precious lives. The interspecies dance of love softens and expands the heart.

Laura Staley

#31. Over the years I've come to appreciate how animals enter our lives prepared to teach and far from being burdened by an inability to speak they have many different ways to communicate. It is up to us to listen more than hear, to look into more than past.

Nick Trout

#32. We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.

Laurence Gonzales

#33. The barriers between animal and human come down very easily. We belong to a single great family, and if we are lonely and unhappy we gladly accept the friendship of our distant relations.

Marlen Haushofer

#34. God put many animals here [on Earth] for pets, playthings and companions for us and our children, and we're still going to enjoy them [in Heaven].

David Berg

#35. Sometimes nature can take its course and shove it. Our commitment to protecting our cat or dog is life-long and sadly, sometimes, that includes protection from discomfort and pain, even if, in the vet's opinion, this means euthanasia.

Nick Trout

#36. Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

Jacques Derrida

#37. It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them.

Anne Bronte

#38. In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets,

Tom Regan

#39. Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

Colette

#40. Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

Jeffrey Kluger

#41. Attention is love, what we must give
children, mothers, fathers, pets,
our friends, the news, the woes of others.
What we want to change we curse and then
pick up a tool. Bless whatever you can
with eyes and hands and tongue. If you
can't bless it, get ready to make it new.

Marge Piercy

#42. We think of dogs as being more like people than pigs; but pigs are highly intelligent animals and if we kept pigs as pets and reared dogs for food, we would probably reverse our order of preference. Are we turning persons into bacon?

Peter Singer