Quotes About Companionship Of A Dog

#1. I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.

Doris Day

#2. I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

Jodi Picoult

#3. We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#4. Asking God for a specific thing will amount to limiting God to a specific answer.

T. B. Joshua

#5. We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely.

Charles R. Swindoll

#6. I weave the company into what we laughingly call 'Jack's novel.' I write this novel for them about who they are and what's going on in their world. When I had 90 people in 'Porgy and Bess,' each had a story, history and family relationship.

Jack O'Brien

#7. A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.

H.P. Lovecraft

#8. This boy needs a dog.
What makes you say that?
He needs someone or something to play with besides his phone and an old man and an old woman doddering around.

Kent Haruf

#9. Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that.

Dani Shapiro

#10. In every squadron there were, perhaps, four or five pilots who exuded confidence. They knew that they were going out to shoot. The rest knew sub-consciously, that they would make up the numbers, mill about, and get shot at.

Lynn Garrison

#11. A dog wakens your heart to joy and companionship.

Pam Brown

#12. People love dogs. This is, I hope, the least surprising sentence you will read in this book. I myself have had long discussions with my dog friends, and by that I mean my friends who are dogs.

Bill Nye

#13. Chickens are cheerless birds, I advise you to keep geese which can be taught to follow like dogs, one needs all the companionship one can get in these days.

Nancy Mitford

#14. You can't franchise the kingdom of God.

C. Christopher Smith

#15. I didn't want to talk, and I didn't think dogs could solve my problems. But they were so uncritical and un-judgmental. Sometimes when you're really blue, you don't want to talk, but you want that sense of companionship. I certainly enjoy that with my beasts.

Susan Orlean

#16. When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.

Deb Caletti

#17. The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind,

Ingrid Newkirk

#18. 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

#19. He wonders if a few moments of utter and total joy can be worth a lifetime of struggle.
Maybe, he thinks. Maybe, if they're the right moments.

Marcus Sedgwick

#20. I wish i had 15-20 cats that would serve as a blanket, like if i moved they would adjust to my new position, that would be good

Megan Boyle