Stray Dog Quotes

#1. But I was thinking about this, the Obamas want to adopt a stray dog from the pound. And I think that is admirable. I believe the last president to bring a stray dog into the White House got impeached.

David Letterman

#2. Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live and die on the streets and beaches all over this Caribbean island of almost four million people.

Juliana Hatfield

#3. My fear was like a stray dog, roving the neighborhood of my life, looking for a new source of worry.

Danzy Senna

#4. Go out there! Sweep a pavement, plant a tree, feed a stray dog. Do something, anything; rather than just using your fingers to tap three keys and destroy 600 people's brain cells in one shot. 11

Twinkle Khanna

#5. Great Paddy Shits in the Mornin', Elora! He's a vampire! No' a stray dog!

Victoria Danann

#6. And I advise ye to think well, he told her It's better to be a stray dog in this world than a man without money. I've tried it both ways, and I know. A poor man stinks, and God hates him.

Willa Cather

#7. Don't you have any pride?" she snapped. He blanched, but she was too angry to stop. "You're like a stray dog I can't get rid of. I want nothing to do with you. Not with your business, not with you. Just go away. Please, just go and stay away.

Elizabeth Camden

#8. However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Jean Anouilh

#9. Heroic," Crane told Baines contemptuously. "Old women, idiot children, bound men, you'll take on all comers. There's a three-legged stray dog hangs around the lanes here. Perhaps someday you could work up to kicking that.

K.J. Charles

#10. A stray dog, I might understand," she said. "But this? You are too softhearted."
No, Mabry," Ravus said. "I am not." He looked in Val's direction. "I think she wants to die."
Maybe you can help her after all," Mabry said. "You're good at helping people die.

Holly Black

#11. Damned thing, self-consciousness, like a pitiful stray dog tagging you down the road - so hard to shake off. So easy to get back.

Barbara Kingsolver

#12. Do not mistake my compassion for injured creatures as any kind of personal interest, Mr. Devlin. I once bandaged the paw of a stray dog I found in the village. I would place you in the same category as he."
"My angel of mercy.

Lisa Kleypas

#13. I have a new little stray dog that I've had for about a month now. His name is Mikey Mohawk - he's this little terrier with a natural Mohawk. My friend found him hit by a car on Pico Boulevard.

Krysten Ritter

#14. I find solace in animals. I have got a stray dog at home called Candy. I picked it up while I was waiting at the airport one day. I always wanted to have a 'macho' dog but got this sweet little thing instead.

Randeep Hooda

#15. If I have just an ounce of sense, I follow the great Way, and fear only to stray from it.

Laozi

#16. I noticed, rich people never toss away their pennies in their driveways, middle-class always chuck them there, and stray dogs lick up what little pennies they find on poverty ground.

Anthony Liccione

#17. A few stray leaves are floating along the surface, and I like how peaceful they look, not going under the water, and not blowing away either. Just floating, weightless and effortless. I want to be a leaf.

Carian Cole

#18. Nana acts like a stray cat, wild, free, and proud ... But inside her heart, she houses a wound. Dense as I am, i thought that. This trait of hers was a part of her charm as well..but she never realized how much pain it brought her ... -Nana Komatsu

Ai Yazawa

#19. When gloaming treads the heels of day
And birds sit cowering on the spray,
Along the flowery hedge I stray,
To meet mine ain dear somebody.

Robert Tannahill

#20. A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go into the flame and sizzle to nothingness because they're so eager to get to the light on the other side.

Michael Cunningham

#21. I am in flight from my story every day, and it dogs me like a faithful stray.

Lionel Shriver

#22. Now we're going to save a bunch of dirty meatsacks from a bunch of dirty cannibals? Why don't we rescue some orphaned kittens and put food out for stray puppies while we're at it?

Julie Kagawa

#23. When was the last time anyone in these parts had been attacked by a bear or a mountain
lion? It was possible, but not probable, right? Maybe it was something harmless. A deer or a
stray cow. Or a really big rabbit.

Josh Lanyon

#24. Each time it was like a stray bit of glass pressed into the softness of her heart, grinding, grinding, oh so silently until she no longer noticed when she bled.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#25. Stray bits of Lego edged fitfully about among lower strata, like bright rectilinear beetles.

William Gibson

#26. Into the dark, smoky restaurant, smelling of rich raw foods on the buffet, slid Nicole's sky-blue suit like a stray segment of the weather outside.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#27. I heard a wise saying once that has helped me: Negative feelings are like stray cats. The more you feed them, the more they hang around.

Joyce Rupp

#28. His muscles flexed under his clothes, holding me, leading me. Never letting me stray far.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#29. Gaby wasn't having much luck with cats lately. The stray from yesterday had left her with red welts and a bad dream, and Lemon had just tried to eat her hair.

Angela Cervantes

#30. The really amazing, beautiful, and miraculous thing about walking with God, however, is that even when you stray, He manages to find you. He uses the ugly, dirty things you do while running from Him to draw you back to Himself.

Mandy Hale

#31. Scattered wits take a long time picking up; and often before I had got them well together, they would be dispersed in all directions by one stray thought,

Charles Dickens

#32. How anybody in town could think me a murderer when I couldn't even throw a stray out into the rain, I cannot fathom.

Linda Barlow

#33. Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

William Cowper

#34. You're the brightest thing in the room," he said. He lifted his hand from my waist, and slowly, carefully brushed a stray lock of hair from my cheek. "You shine.

Morgan Matson

#35. Teaching is the art of serendipity. Each of us has the experience of finding out that something we intended as only the most casual of remarks, or the stray example, changes the way some students thought to the point of changing their lives.

Greg Carlson

#36. Away from home. Young children stray from their parents and are never seen again. Housewives reach the end of their tether and take the grocery money and a taxi to the station. International financiers change their names and vanish

Diana Gabaldon

#37. You're not going to die?"
"Not right this minute." And of course, saying something like that usually resulted in immediate dying. I braced myself for a stray meteorite falling through the roof to crush my skull.

Ilona Andrews

#38. Advisers were numberless in Kabul, like stray dogs in Mumbai.

Zia Haider Rahman

#39. You should write because some stray scrap of your soul is trying to manifest itself verbally.

Dennis Lehane

#40. We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent;
We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.

Rabindranath Tagore

#41. Then came her voice in his ear: "I give myself to thee. I give myself to thee. I give myself to thee."
And at last she sank onto him, and he wrapped his arms about her and savoured the delicious peace. The stray, funny thought came: we're married, and he laughed out loud.

Loretta Chase

#42. Where's a stray bullet from a random drive-by shooting when you need one?

Emma Chase

#43. Among your earthiest words, the angels stray...

Patrick Kavanagh

#44. Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow.

Shannon L. Alder

#45. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.

John Milton

#46. Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.

Dionne Brand

#47. Let never man be bold enough to say,
Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray:
The first crime, past, compels us into more,
And guilt grows fate, that was but choice, before.

Aaron Hill

#48. He was his own victim, his own slave. He had made personality a profession, created a career out of selling himself. And he could not stray far, or for long, from his self-made self.

Jim Thompson

#49. But he just stared at my eyes, as if searching for a stray eyelash. A free wish.

Leah Raeder

#50. I came to this house for safety. They came because the foster care system ran out of homes. We stayed because we were stray pieces of other puzzles, tired of never fitting.

Katie McGarry

#51. On the Continent stray cats are judged individually on their merit-some are loved, some are only respected; in England they are universally worshipped as in ancient Egypt.

George Mikes

#52. Have the courage to walk in truth, the strength to love always, and the integrity to never stray away from doing so.

A.D. Posey

#53. Resentments are like stray dogs,if you don't pet them, they will go away.

Sandi Bachom

#54. This was my one brush with love. Was it love? It felt awful enough. I spent another two years crawling around in the skin of it, smoking too much and growing too thin and having stray thoughts of jumping from my balcony like a tortured heroine in a Russian novel.

Paula McLain

#55. Saw the power of the darkness. Saw that, in fact, I had strayed and that I was a stray and that from the wild places my straying had brought me, I knew things I couldn't have known before.

Cheryl Strayed

#56. The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.

Jodi Picoult

#57. I am a kind of stray cat, aren't I?

Shirley Jackson

#58. But, Mistress, do not be seen to stray too far from the real that is clear to others, or you may stand accused of the real that is clear to you.

Jeanette Winterson

#59. Philip wooed me with all the patience of someone trying to coax a half-wild animal into the house and, like many a stray, I found myself domesticated before I thought to resist.

Kelley Armstrong

#60. Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it.

Joss Whedon

#61. For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along the South Coast is just a bed of roses, with a few thorns and nettles interspersed.

Henry Miller

#62. The Victorians, especially southern Victorians, needed a lot of room to stray away from each other, to duck tuberculosis and flu, to avoid rapacious lust, to wall themselves away from sticky emotions. Extra space is always good.

Gillian Flynn

#63. My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything ... like stray cats and squirrels.

Eric Roberts

#64. And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.

Yehuda Amichai

#65. Don't say I didn't warn you. One of these days you're going to take in a stray that'll really break your heart."
~Ed

Kate Douglas

#66. Stay within the confines of your chosen topic. If you start to stray away from your topic and find an urge to showcase everything that you know, resist that urge. Remember that you are writing a book, not the book.

Gudjon Bergmann

#67. Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.

John Calvin

#68. Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow.

Thomas Gray

#69. Marco faced her and rested a shoulder against the locker. "It doesn't take much, does it? To make you happy." He reached out, as if to tuck a stray curl behind her ear, but pulled back. "It never did.

Laura Kaye

#70. This, I told myself, this is the way I shall be condemned to pass my days, turning over words, stray lines, fragments of memory, to see what might be lurking underneath them, as if they were so many flat stones, while I steadily faded.

John Banville

#71. Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk.

Patrick Stump

#72. Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.

Jules Verne

#73. Now that I am past picking the knife to stab one, the reward of stabbing a few more comes at an unfairly lower risk!

Pawan Mishra

#74. How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

Dar Williams

#75. I wish to know what you are doing here," he whispered to the unknown woman, drumming his fingers on the road. "And what you might have to do with a stray puck and an enemy Queen.

Thea Harrison

#76. More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger.

Robert Reich

#77. I find myself walking these lines. Like I might be an artist, but I also might be an activist. And I'm trying to be both in a way that honors both and doesn't stray too far into either.

Chris Jordan

#78. The intellectually-inclined biographers stray from the point that the message is directed through the spoken word at the broad masses and not writing to an inbred, self-adoring intellectual elite."
--Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, pp. 30-31

Russel H.S. Stolfi

#79. I'm not a stray," he said. "I'm. Not. Right. In. The. Head." He jabbed his temple, and the bump on my own head seemed to throb. "I'm fucking rabid and mangy, and I'll piss all over your carpets if I stick around long enough. I'll take what you give me, but I'm not nice, Adrian.

C.M. McKenna

#80. A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.

James Russell Lowell

#81. One of the extraordinary adaptive powers of our species is its ability to transmute a stray encounter into a first chapter.

Joe Hill

#82. I let my eyes drift into the maze of leaves that only trees understand. Hatred has its gravitational web, locking stray specks of confusion into spirals of violence.

Gregory David Roberts

#83. Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves ... The promise of gold and crimson is there among the branches, though as yet it is achieved on only a stray branch, an impatient limb or an occasional small tree which has not yet learned to time its changes.

Hal Borland

#84. It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#85. And now the past stalked about like a purposeless stray animal among heaps of rubbish and junk that no one wanted.

Jussi Adler-Olsen

#86. The thing about families, Arlo thought, was that there was always some question nobody wanted to answer for you, and it was like a stray thread pulling loose in a sweater. You could tug at it all you wanted, but in the end, all you'd have was a pile of twisted yarn.

Sarah Sullivan

#87. It's the colors that will make you stray. They sing to you, the not-blue and the searing light, and no matter how tightly you tie yourself to the inbetween, eventually you will break free.
No one swims only in the shallow water.

Betsy Cornwell

#88. Spring goeth all in white, / Crowned with milk-white may: / In fleecy flocks of light / O'er heaven the white clouds stray.

Robert Bridges

#89. One recognises one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

Albert Camus

#90. She has the longest eyelashes I have ever seen, falling like stray wishes onto her cheeks.

Rhiannon Argo

#91. Daily prayers can help us keep on the path that leads to eternal life. We are very unlikely to stray if we offer a humble, simple prayer at least each morning and evening to express thanks and to seek divine guidance.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#92. In the road of right and wrong, trust me and hold my hand. Let's walk into the cave none has ever strayed into, where nothing matters except us. With the light, you hold in your eyes, let me destroy all the darkness in there.

Akshay Vasu

#93. All men want to be treated like kings in a relationship, and I think if women don't indulge that sometimes, their men are likely to stray and look for someone who can give that to them.

Giada De Laurentiis

#94. I don't know exactly what drove me to stray, but I think there's a certain sadness to finally getting what you want.

Jessica Pan

#95. With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.

Brian Setzer

#96. You don't ask any questions. You don't get any answers. You don't stray from the path. You don't even think about what's happening to you right now. Got it?

Neil Gaiman

#97. The arctic atmosphere, necessary for the maintenance of broadcast equipment, is air-conditioner sterile, with occasional stray smells of brewed coffee and toner for photocopying machines.

F.H. Batacan

#98. Ask for the impossible, then settle instead for what you really wanted in the first place.

Rachel Vincent

#99. Fate and destiny go hand in hand. It is impossible to change our destiny. Only the path upon which we walk to reach our destination alters. If we should stray from that path, fate will take control and guide us in the right direction.

J.A. Belfield

#100. Clint collected stray facts the way belly buttons collect lint.

Laura DiSilverio