Quotes About Pets

#1. So maybe it's just a part of who we all are, and always were. My worry now, though, is that we are starting to nurture these neuroses of ours, and treating them like pets. That can't be a good thing.

Craig Finn

#2. We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them.

Gary Paulsen

#3. In order to be happy, every person must have:
1. Something meaningful to do.
2. Someone to love. (Friends and family and pets all count.)
3. Something to look forward to.
It's really that simple.

Mimi Strong

#4. Right," I said. "So the baboon, the crocodile ... any other pets I should know about?"
Amos thought for a moment. "Visible ones? No, I think that's it.

Rick Riordan

#5. I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal rights, the love and money we lavish on pets, the uneasy longing for extraterrestrials to be meddling with us.

Annie Gottlieb

#6. Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.

Karl Kraus

#7. When I later discovered that she (illustrator Faith Jaques) was a compulsive reader who loved to be alone and kept cats because they are the only pets that allow you to be both, my adoration of Jaques and her work could only increase.

Lucy Mangan

#8. Pets are found to suffer from all the ailments known to the human ...

Dick Gregory

#9. Wasn't allowed to have pets. I killed my pet cockroach when it crawled into my ear.

Katherine McIntyre

#10. You must not judge of Celia's feeling from mine. I think she likes these small pets. She had a tiny terrier once, which she was very fond of. It made me unhappy, because I was afraid of treading on it. I am rather short-sighted.

George Eliot

#11. It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who like dogs - (L.T.'s Theory of Pets)

Stephen King

#12. This is why I keep telling Ash to get you a cat or a bird. Guns aren't proper pets.

Andrea Cremer

#13. I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.

Ioan Gruffudd

#14. Walt Disney was a great believer in the use of song to convey story. He was primarily a storyman & story-driven songs were his 'pets.' He always asked what was going on with the song - he hated 'singing heads.' He loved learning about character & motivation thru music & lyrics.

Richard Sherman

#15. Your surroundings, home, personal care, pets, clothing & body are all reflections of how you see and express yourself. Do these reflect your true self?

Christiane Northrup

#16. The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, contrast sharply with the much trickier dealings with members of their own species.

Frans De Waal

#17. But there is a sign!" objected Primrose in semi-shock. "A sign indicating pets aren't permitted. Really, some people.

Gail Carriger

#18. I put myself on the same level as everyone else around me - from the directrice to the workman, everyone. Except my pets - they are the Kings; you must treat them like royalty.

Azzedine Alaia

#19. 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

#20. Isabelle glanced back at them. "They're staring at you. Maybe their master died and they're looking for another vampire to own them. You could have pets." She grinned.
"Or," Simon said ,"maybe they're here for the hash browns.

Cassandra Clare

#21. had a hunch that people wanted to keep jellyfish as pets, so he created a test website and bought $100 in Google search ads. Lo and behold, his

Anonymous

#22. Animals are just pure, uncomplicated entities of creation from God. They live like the Maasai do in Kenya-for each day is forever to them and the "Now" is what they live in. You can get aggravated with your pets and yell at them, but in a matter of minutes they are licking your hand again in love.

Sylvia Browne

#23. 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

#24. Love your pets unconditionally - for you are their god.

Jury Nel

#25. Some of the wildest men make the best pets.

Mae West

#26. The real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.

Betsy Byars

#27. Final statement: Not all women want marriage and children; many want only orgasms and pets. Never forget that.

Paulo Coelho

#28. '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

#29. 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

#30. If having a beautiful lawn means putting up warning signs several times a year to keep children and pets off of it, it's probably a good idea to look into alternatives.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#31. Chewie hugs him and purrs. "I'll be back. We're not done, you and I. We'll see each other again. I'm gonna be a father and no way my kid won't have you in his life." One more bark and yip as Chewie pets his head. "Yeah, pal. I know." He sighs. "I love you, too.

Chuck Wendig

#32. So the fairies are wonderfully helpful for anything involving animals. They'll even help you find lost pets or locate a new one for adoption.

Doreen Virtue

#33. Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.

Chevy Chase

#34. The number one mistake is giving pets table scraps. I made the mistake thinking I was showing my dog love by giving her food and treats. You see a tiny 4 oz. piece of cheese, but for a Boston Terrier like mine, that's like one and a half hamburgers. That's unhealthy.

Alison Sweeney

#35. Pets hardly exist in North Korea because most have been eaten.

Mike Kim

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

Robert Breault

#37. Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.

Marvin Minsky

#38. In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.

Robert Breault

#39. Everyone has values, and values their family, values their health, their sanity, their safety and security, and their families, their parents, their children, their pets, their environments, well-being in general.

Surya Das

#40. There was a point when I almost gave up. I couldn't feed myself. I couldn't feed my pets.

Eleanor Mondale

#41. Luckily, the clever pets had managed to escape.

Daisy Meadows

#42. I don't understand people who don't touch their pets. Their cat or dog is called a pet for a reason.

Jarod Kintz

#43. When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.

Louise Brown

#44. You can draw the character out of pets, and you can make them your friends, but they are animals, and they have to be allowed to live the lives of animals.

Paul O'Grady

#45. I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.

Flula Borg

#46. Feral hamsters are not pets. They mean business.

David Foster Wallace

#47. 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

#48. It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.

James Baldwin

#49. Ah, well, people can be a bit stupid abou' their pets, said Hagrid wisely. Behind him, Buckbeak spat a few ferret bones onto Hagrid's pillow.

J.K. Rowling

#50. Juniper . . . pets . . . cupcakes. How can one even put those two things in the same . . . It doesn't matter.

Daniel Jose Older

#51. My prep team. My foolish, shallow, affectionate pets, with their obsessions with feathers and parties, nearly break my heart with their good-bye. It's

Suzanne Collins

#52. The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane.

Eckhart Tolle

#53. This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.

Heather Armstrong

#54. Love is an anchor -- it stops you from drifting away. Love is sticking up for your friends and family, or even your pets. Love is being brave and saying what you feel. Love is making music or playing tennis; it's doing what you want to do. Love is holding on and not letting go.

Robert Corbet

#55. My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it's made such a difference in my lifetime.

Betty White

#56. We may have pets, but when it comes to unconditional love, they are the masters.

Donald L. Hicks

#57. Some of the lowest-paid workers in this nation are people that we ask to watch the next generation of Americans. We do a better job insisting that your pets are cared for in this country than your children are, and there ought to be a sense of outrage about that.

Christopher Dodd

#58. I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.

Padgett Powell

#59. Clarissa," he said, "here with the vampire, I see. When things have settled a bit, we really must discuss you choice in pets..

Cassandra Clare

#60. Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

Anne Tyler

#61. New Maxi-Pad Pets. Accessories for your period.
Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and
in your pants.

Libba Bray

#62. People have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist

Dean Koontz

#63. I love cats. I've had cats as pets.

Sam Raimi

#64. Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents. No phone, no pool, no pets, ain't got no big regrets. Two hours of pushin' broom, buys an eight by twelve, four-bit room. I'm a man of means, by no means, king of the road.

Roger Miller

#65. Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#66. I love pets and I love animals, and I just got a new puppy, a new rescue named Peanut. She's a tiny little Chihuahua mix.

Carrie Ann Inaba

#67. In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.

Robert Breault

#68. It's amazing that the city we live in allows "pets" that belong in a sideshow, but makes it illegal for me to have a switchblade.

Helen Ellis

#69. Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every employee in the White House will be at once discharged.

Ulysses S. Grant

#70. one of the many prohibitions in the Disney College Program is that we are not allowed any pets - not even a fish.

Katie Hudson

#71. Cats are great. They don't talk about useless things. Or do them. Nothing is cuter. They are something that don't exist in my world. They have pets over there as well ... but ... it doesn't quite compare.

Yana Toboso

#72. Fans believe they have a relationship with you, either through your TV character or, more reasonably, through the tweets you may have exchanged. In a way, you have gotten to know them. You learn about people's kids, families, pets.

Gina Bellman

#73. Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

Frances Wright

#74. I think pets are great. They're better than kids, that's for sure.

Jon Hamm

#75. 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

#76. Surrogates are not just silly girls, to be bought and sold and treated like pets or furniture. We are a force to be reckoned with.

Amy Ewing

#77. There are absolutely no high-maintenance items in my house of any kind. Plants, pets or husbands.

Carolyn Porco

#78. Both Kennedy and Obama exuded a dash of glamour in their roles as commander-in-chief and became the darlings of Hollywood. As president, each brought to the White House a fashionable and accomplished First Lady, two adorable young children and scene-stealing pets.

Kitty Kelley

#79. As long as I can remember, I've always had pets. Something about the connection you share with this entirely different species just blows my mind.

Reid Scott

#80. Blondes make nice pets.

Andrew Barger

#81. Peeves make for terrible pets.

Peter Wisan

#82. I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.

Connie Stevens

#83. Pets are supposedly a great way to meet people.

Reem Acra

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

Martha Steward

#85. You can't keep children in the nursery forever. If you do, they never become grown-ups, but they're not really children either. They are just pets.

Philip Reeve

#86. I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now.

Tom Felton

#87. No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom ... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.

Christopher McCandless

#88. 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

#89. Pets inspire many different types of behaviour in their owners, mostly ranging from adoration to ridiculous obsessiveness, in my experience.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#90. I have long held that there are two fundamental views of children: That they are pets who can talk, or that they are small people who do not yet know very much. The wrong one is winning.

David Friedman

#91. Being able to feel love, loyalty, gratitude and happiness means you have a soul? Then all my pets are bound for heaven.

Jury Nel

#92. Silence is golden for me. I live in the country and hear only my pets, birds, crickets, and the wind in the trees.

Franny Armstrong

#93. (One of the best-kept secrets of "country life" is that people accidentally crush their own pets a lot.) The

Tina Fey

#94. 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

#95. Men cheat. They lie. They love porn. The don't respect you and don't care if they hurt you. It's the fucking breaks. Women divorce 'em 'cause we can't tame 'em or train 'em or control 'em like we do household pets. End of story.

Terry McMillan

#96. Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)

Mark Twain

#97. Then a homeless man with a dog approached us and put his hand out. This happens to be something that I have a real problem with: homeless people with pets who approach you for food when they have a perfectly delicious dog standing right there?

Chelsea Handler

#98. All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.

Lena Dunham

#99. Animals were my pets, and the thought of eating my pets freaked me out.

Carrie Underwood

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

M. Scott Peck