Shelter Dog Sayings

#1. Everybody should have a shelter dog. It's good for the soul.

Paul Shaffer

#2. Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

Nelson Mandela

#3. I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter. I would be the person with the three-legged dog. I just love animals more than people; I really do.

Kaley Cuoco

#4. Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.

Maria Montessori

#5. Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.

Chico Buarque

#6. We were close enough to kiss, so close I could feel his warm breathon my mouth. I parted my lips, taking what he felt he could give me, inhailing the kiss he couldn't give me.

Rhys Ford

#7. It's like being at an animal shelter, where I want to be the one the most skittish dog takes a liking to.

Emery Lord

#8. They drew the line on dogs at the hospital and wouldn't let the dog in. A fireman, instructed to drop it off at the animal shelter, took it home with him instead.

Thomas Harris

#9. That which is hateful to you, do not do to another. That is the whole Law. The rest is commentary. Now go and learn.

Rabbi Hillel

#10. I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#11. Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the road, I did not want to live in fear of that, I was gong to work somehow against what that vision was, and what that horror was. It was poetry, art, music.

Anne Waldman

#12. If youre a vegan who ran a marathon & got your dogs from a shelter, how do you decide which thing to wedge into the conversation first?

Ken Jennings

#13. There will always be a just fight and a cause to die for.

Rawi Hage

#14. Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

Karl Marx

#15. Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.

John Gardner

#16. I've got two dogs - one's a Jack Russell and she's one year old now, and I've got another dog called Kanga, and I got him from a rescue shelter, and there's nothing I enjoy more than just walking them on the beach in Cape Town. I find that very destressing and very relaxing.

Lewis Pugh

#17. It's interesting. People go to an animal shelter and pick a dog that's been kicked, beaten, and has lost a leg and an eye, and they'll take that dog home and give it love and support, but they don't do that with people.

Nikki Sixx

#18. I got a pit bull from a shelter, so my whole life is centered on this dog, and I've been writing a lot of dog jokes. I should probably give up now, because I'm writing jokes about my dog.

Joe Mande

#19. Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.

A.A. Milne

#20. If just half the Americans already getting a dog went the shelter route, then statistically speaking, every cage in US animal control facilities could be emptied. Right now.

Kim Kavin

#21. Rescuing dogs is looked upon as a noble, trendy pursuit. But wouldn't rescuing a man from a homeless shelter be, in fact, more humane?

Greg Fitzsimmons

#22. If every animal shelter in the United States embraced the No Kill philosophy and the programs and services that make it possible, we would save nearly four million dogs and cats who are scheduled to die in shelters this year, and the year after that. It is not an impossible dream.

Nathan Winograd

#23. It was, strangely, like coming home, as if this was the place Poe had meant to be all along.

Greg Rucka

#24. Good heavens, ogling was addictive.

Meredith Duran

#25. A home without a dog is merely a shelter.

Stephen Huneck

#26. Youth must triumph ... now. Afterwards, it will be life.

Jose Garcia Villa

#27. People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with.

Michael Zaslow

#28. And what's more, he'll go and live with his friend unless his friend is allowed to come in and live with him ... His friend must have a silk cushion just like his and sleep in your room too. Otherwise he will go and sleep in the coal-cellar with his friend

P.L. Travers

#29. I'm an ambassador for Best Friends [Animal Society], an incredible organization that's devoted to the welfare of animals - in particular, trying to help make every animal shelter a no-kill shelter. My two dogs were rescues, and I'm a firm believer in finding every dog or cat a home.

Patrick Fabian

#30. Letting cats and dogs have litters is tantamount to shooting shelter animals in the head since it kills their chances of adoption. Please do the right thing and spay or neuter your animals.

Steven Morrissey

#31. I endeavor to be serious and you will not take me seriously

Sherwood Smith

#32. It is rewarding beyond words to rescue a dog from the shelter and have that dog become part of your family.

Jenna Morasca

#33. Will I be less dead because I wrote this poem or you more because you read it long years hence.

Maya Angelou

#34. Someone once said give a dog food and shelter and treats and they think you are a god, but give a cat the same and they think they are the god.

Steven Rowley