Top 100 Quotes About Pets
#1. Disney features, especially the early ones, were horror movies with cute critters: Greek tragedies with a hummable chorus. Forcing children to confront the loss of home, parent, friends and fondest pets, these films imposed shock therapy on four-year-olds.
Richard Corliss
#2. Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.
James Cromwell
#3. My hustle has often involved food, because, much like household pets or toddlers, I am food-motivated, which is a handy thing to know about me.
Amy Schumer
#4. Stories that pander to your every readerly desire and whim are like overly loyal dogs that live for the simple glow of your approval. I'm a cat person. I like a little aloofness in my pets and my writing.
Alden Bell
#5. I've teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who've found homes through their in-store adoption centers, and to spread the word about how we can work together to save millions more pets' lives and, ultimately, end pet homelessness.
Josh Duhamel
#6. And I thought kitty liter was the unlawful practice of discarding small felines along the roadside.
Robert J. Morrissette
#7. Americans who do not celebrate Independence Day: pets.
Demetri Martin
#8. Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
Paris Hilton
#9. 6th grade. My dog, Katie, is hit by a car and killed. A mean girl during recess says it committed suicide because it didn't love me. I cry and swear revenge on mankind.
Eugene Mirman
#10. It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets.
Tippi Hedren
#11. A strongly accentuated zoophilism, such as an inordinate love of horses or dogs, throws the emotional nature out of balance; and those who are possessed by it are not likely to care very much for people.
W.E. Woodward
#12. I didn't have any pets growing up.
Ben Barnes
#13. My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
Vince Vaughn
#14. For her part, Amy Kev's Waffles with a passionate ferocity that she felt a little bit guilty about not being able to feel, most of the time, for humans. It probably helped that he was constantly doing cute shit and couldn't speak.
Emily Gould
#16. Jason had joked that dust bunnies under the bed were pets he didn't mind keeping: they never whined for food and didn't require a litter box. They also didn't wake you up at night by barking at passing raccoons.
Erik Bundy
#17. You can't keep it no matter how much you beg. Dragons are not pets, Ivy. He laughed.
H.M. Ward
#18. I had patients who didn't die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It's why women live longer than men with the same health problems.
Bernie Siegel
#19. If it weren't for the animals waiting for her, she wouldn't bother getting out of bed. Then, room service was a little lacking when you lived alone.
Dale Mayer
#20. We got no food, we got no jobs, our pets heads are falling off!
Lloyd
#21. Finally, Charlie gave up the hunt and placed (the puppy) back on the floor, dispatching fleas was not his idea of a romantic evening, unless you happened to be a twisted exterminator, he thought.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#23. You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
Nora Ephron
#24. Once a cat loves you, it loves you till the end.
Will Advise
#25. 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
#26. The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
George Will
#27. 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
#28. There're going to be animals in God's Heaven on Earth, a New Heaven and a New Earth! God's not going to have His Creation defeated. He put those animals here for pets and playthings and companions for you and your children, and you're still going to enjoy the animals.
David Berg
#29. There is a husband who requires mileage receipts, another who wants sex at three a.m One who forbids short haircuts, another who refuses to feed the pets. I would never put up with that, the other wives think. Never.
Jenny Offill
#30. I was born with a love of animals, the same way I was born with brown hair. When I was a little girl in Rome, I always had pets, which I adored.
Isabella Rossellini
#31. 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
#32. Millions of Americans own dogs, because they are good-natured, simple, and easily amused. I am referring here to the Americans. The dogs are not exactly Mensa members either, but they definitely make better pets than tropical fish.
Dave Barry
#33. As a very small boy, my passion was nature, and I had pets - cats, a dog and a bunny rabbit - and I wrote a very small book called 'My Pets,' filled with their photographs and a discussion about my pets and how much I loved them ... That was my first book.
Tony Buzan
#34. Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.
Christopher Hitchens
#35. And he had a dog, a nice dog. He couldn't be too evil or dangerous if he had such a great dog.
Molly Ringle
#36. Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.
Bob Barker
#37. Then, gradually, women began to enter vet schools. By 1975, they represented half of all students; by 2000, nearly three-quarters - and most of them wanted to treat pets.
The New Yorker
#39. Take care of your dog because a dead dog is NOT a fun companion!
Darlene Arden
#40. I'm also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I'm surprised I haven't gone through with a homeware brand. The bedding, the comforters, the candles, the this and that. I would like to design everything.
Lisa Vanderpump
#41. I'd keep you if you weren't already being fought over and owned." "I'm not a pet." "Believe me when I say I treat my pets very well," he said in a low voice. "No complaints. Ever.
Rachel Van Dyken
#42. Love is for friends & pets ... and family ... only if they really love you as unconditionally as your friends and pets.
Pauley Perrette
#44. 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
#45. My campaign is about getting pets to be more active, and exercise with your animal is a great way for people to exercise. When you're out with your pet, it becomes fun. You don't think of it as a chore. For me, taking my dog out for a walk is very relaxing.
Misty May-Treanor
#46. Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.
Francis Galton
#47. For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.
May Sarton
#48. Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner
Louise Penny
#49. That's pretty bold of you, Jill Cleary." His eyes sparkled when he teased. "We've only known each other a few hours, and you're already talking about us getting pets together.
Carolyn Brown
#50. Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
Bernie Siegel
#51. If you accept that pets can love us as much as we do them, then the logic is clear and cannot be denied. If you believe that there is a heaven for people, then they must be there, waiting for us, when we cross over. Heaven is love, and pets always share that with us.
Wallace Sife
#52. Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge.
Jerry Seinfeld
#53. As far as pets go, a cat is a nice on to have.
Adam Rex
#54. There were no windows in my bedroom, so I had to sit up and read my clock to figure out how angry I should be at my visitor. Eight A.M. I hated whoever woke me up. Had they come an hour earlier, I would have also hated their families and any household pets.
Lish McBride
#55. Rachel Hauck is an award-winning, USA Today bestselling author. She is a RITA and Christy Award finalist. The Wedding Dress was named Inspirational Novel of the Year by Romantic Times. Rachel lives in central Florida with her husband and two pets and writes from her ivory
Rachel Hauck
#56. My mum loves cats so I took her to see the lion cubs which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn't scared at all and went straight over and kissed one on the mouth! She thought they were just like her pets at home.
Amanda Holden
#57. Funny how you can measure time by pets that were not even your own.
Lori Lansens
#58. Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them.
Walter Farley
#59. Do not fight them. Instead think of them the way you think of children, or pets, not important enough to affect your mental balance
Robert Greene
#60. Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
Colette
#61. I didn't grow up with pets, but I live alone and figured a dog might be good for me. His name is Drexl, and he's a shih-tzu.
Marsha Thomason
#62. No one wants to get too close to a madwoman. Or men who have monkeys for pets.
Victoria Alexander
#63. Do you like pets better than toys and books? I always did, so I thought very likely you would too.
Georgette Heyer
#64. I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.
Elizabeth Jennings
#65. Good friends and great pets. Key to a good life!!! Who says you have to be paired up with a partner?
Jillian Barberie
#66. In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets,
Tom Regan
#67. I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
Terry McMillan
#68. Unconditional love is furnished by many 4 legged creatures, but chiefly by human kinds best friend DOG!
Ladee Basset
#69. No man can be stolen who doesn't consent to his own theft.
Clancy Nacht
#70. I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.
Donna Douglas
#71. You bite the hand that feeds, Speedy said.
Humans don't like that.
They view it as a sign of ingratitude.
I never asked anyone to feed me.
That doesn't seem to matter to them.
Patrick Jennings
#72. Ladies and gentlemen are supposed to be looked after by others, like children and pets.
Mason Cooley
#73. I tell you, that dragon's the most horrible animal I've ever met, but the way Hagrid goes on about it, you'd think it was a fluffy little bunny rabbit.
J.K. Rowling
#74. It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them.
Anne Bronte
#75. A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#76. Puppies are constantly inventing new ways to be bad. It's fascinating. You come into a room they've been in and see pieces of debris and try to figure out what you had that was made from wicker or what had been stuffed with fluff.
Julie Klam
#77. I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets.
Tess Gerritsen
#78. The men I write can be intense, quiet, outspoken and outrageous, deadly or fun ... but I would never waste time on a hero who wasn't honorable, who didn't protect those who couldn't protect themselves, who didn't value children and pets, who wasn't independent and unselfish.
Lori Foster
#79. Blueprints are like pets and children
difficult to appreciate or understand unless they're yours.
Margo Kaufman
#80. As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?
Jodi Picoult
#81. Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.
Jacques Derrida
#82. Some people take better care of their pets and possessions than their marriage
DeBorrah K. Ogans
#83. Maybe that's why the Westmores never allowed any pets. Hard to keep them off the menu.
Jazz Feylynn
#84. Usually when I'm stressed, I'll eat everything not nailed down. Only small children and family pets are safe. And okra - I won't eat okra under any circumstances.
Sue Ann Jaffarian
#85. If my landlord hadn't been so vehement about the no-pets clause in my lease, I probably would already have at least two cats roaming my apartment. I was considering taking up knitting. Well, no, not the last one, but I did miss having a pet. And the dating situation was becoming dire.
Debra Dunbar
#86. The charity work is just a part of what I do. Like ... I make time to clean my house, to care for my pets, to visit my extended family, because those things are important to me. Same with helping others.
Lori Foster
#87. The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
Walter Scott
#88. I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham Lincoln
#89. It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.
Linda Blair
#90. I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.
John Lydon
#91. Demelza was beginning to feel like a lion tamer who has been putting his pets through their paces and finds them getting out of hand.
Winston Graham
#92. For myself, I've kind of always been interested in pets because they're not human.
Shaun Tan
#93. I travel way too much to have any pets. But if I could have one, I'd want a quokka. They're basically small kangaroos native to Western Australia.
Justine Larbalestier
#94. Do you have a pet?'
Eugenia shook her head. 'I don't know very much about animals.'
'There's nothing much to know. You feed them; they love you.
Eloisa James
#95. We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?
K.d. Lang
#96. Then, there are the places you would rather not go-a tax collectors' convention, a sewage treatment plant, or maybe the home of someone who keeps spiders as pets and insists on taking them out of their cages and making you hold them.
Obert Skye
#98. Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets?
Annie Dillard
#99. Pets require feeding, training, affection and exercise, but in return they offer unconditional love and companionship.
Jeanne Phillips
#100. My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me" to have a dog for a companion. Well it was good for me, but it was only many years after she died that I began to understand how good it was, and why.
Fred Rogers
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