Terrier Quotes

#1. 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

#2. All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a cow a good fright, entangle a Yorkshire terrier for life, and is nasty stuff made by greedy men.

Billy Connolly

#3. To hear, in the short space of one week, a Scottish terrier booed by an audience and President Roosevelt criticized by Charles Lindbergh was a great strain on our nerves. The props of life seem to be crumbling fast.

E.B. White

#4. At home in Victoria, we have three dogs, Tosh and Lucy, they're half Blue Heelers, and then there's Torrin a little Maltese terrier. She gets more attention in the house than anyone else! Yes, I miss them a lot.

Chris Hemsworth

#5. 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

#6. A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. Unlike the bough that
shook off her dead leaves violently
like a wet terrier,
unlike the beating of the butterfly,
her wings, against the cocoon,
some dreams never made a move.

V.S. Atbay

#8. But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat.
Process and Reality

Alfred North Whitehead

#9. While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox.

Barry McGuigan

#10. I have my sweetheart Yorkshire terrier, Tabasco, along with two cats, Romeo and Jasmine. Yes, I am both a Shakespeare and Disney addict.

Kirsten Prout

#11. Once you've got a bull terrier, you never want another dog. I've got six bull terriers, a rottweiler and a bulldog.

Julian Dicks

#12. I have taken some hits here and there, but I've been most damaged carrying my little terrier to bed, and I broke my hip turning off the lamp. I've been nicked a few times, but he put me out of business. So life is a very strange adventure.

David Douglas Duncan

#13. A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles.

George Foreman

#14. I decide to give them names. The pit bull is Ed. The terrier is Emily. I like giving human names to dogs. It's more respectable that way. It tells them they're one of us and reminds us of the same.

Karina Halle

#15. The question at this age is what kind of dog you will shortly resemble. She will be a beagle, Prue a terrier. Pamela will be an Afghan, or something equally unearthly.

Margaret Atwood

#16. We only have one dog now. Calamity Jane had to be put down. She was very old, and her medicine no longer controlled her seizures. Dilly is five now, I think. He's a neutered American Pit Bull Terrier, very gentle, about the color of buckskin.

Gene Wolfe

#17. He's like a terrier, Scholes, he won't let go - even the postman would be afraid of him.

Jimmy Magee

#18. I also have two dogs, a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire terrier, so if they like him, that's a good sign.

Christina Milian

#19. I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

Alfred Edward Housman

#20. They say every dog has its day, Ganapathi, but for this terrier twilight came before tea-time.

Shashi Tharoor

#21. Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

Ouida

#22. The first commandment of dog behavior: Thou shalt not hump. Thou shalt especially not hump in public. Thou shalt not hump thy neighbor's wife, thy neighbor's leg, or thy neighbor's Jack Russell Terrier. - Belle, Dog Only Knows

Terry Kaye

#23. We burst through the gardens, half leaping over wheelbarrows in the first, avoiding a crop of herbs in the second, and getting barked at by an evil terrier in the third.

Anonymous

#24. Happier than a terrier in a barrel full of rats

Terry Pratchett

#25. Fatty, a bearded collie-terrier mix, is the kindest, cuddliest dog. And Oliver, a white golden retriever, even looks like me! My dogs have taught me to be more loving, more nurturing, and happier.

Nicollette Sheridan

#26. Alma had been falling in love with a crazy terrier that thought "stay" mean to take off like a rocket. Gaby knew he'd already taken off with Alma's heart.

Angela Cervantes

#27. Smiled like a homecoming queen, Pit Bull Terrier with a new collar, actress on the Letterman show.

Dennis Vickers

#28. Instead, an unexpected surprise was waiting for her when she walked in the door. Daisy's trusty West Highland Terrier Shamus was usually so well-behaved. Unfortunately, Shamus picked that night to misbehave.

K.M. Morgan

#29. Where Insch was bald, Steel looked as if someone had sellotaped a Cairn terrier to her head. Rumour had it she was only forty-two, but she looked a lot older. Years of chain smoking had left her face looking like a holiday home for lines and wrinkles.

Stuart MacBride

#30. You know how much I want a Vespa. I'm Vespa Desperate. It's a medical syndrome, you know. I see Vespas and I want to chase them down the street like a rabid terrier.

Elle Casey

#31. At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.

Hugh Bonneville

#32. Only to be expected!' Elinor's voice almost cracked. Belligerent as a Bull Terrier, she marched up to him.

Cornelia Funke

#33. Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.

Smiley Blanton

#34. The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and they want to kill something.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#35. Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs are, and it will take years and years of patient effort on the part of us Christians to bring about any appreciable reformation in the rowdiness of the fox-terrier nature.

Jerome K. Jerome

#36. 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

#37. I loved the terrier quality Stuart had. He thought he was such a tough guy.

Jacquelyn Mitchard

#38. Terriers are problem solvers. They'll do what you tell them, but only if it happens to be in line with what they wanted to do anyway.

Garth Stein