Train Your Dog Quotes

#1. The dog (the poet) is on top of a locomotive," ... "He's got a box full of track, and he's frenetically laying down track in front of the train.

Billy Collins

#2. For one brief, the great black dog reared onto its hind legs and placed its front paws on Harry's shoulders, but Mrs. Weasley shoved Harry away toward the train door hissing, For heaven's sake act more like a dog, Sirius!

J.K. Rowling

#3. Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

Robert Breault

#4. If he can still piss her off, then it's a whole lot better than indifference.

Melina Marchetta

#5. Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.

Mark Twain

#6. Adorkable. It's in its own category.

Anne Eliot

#7. Personally, I don't want to own a dog that inspires fear. I choose my dogs carefully, have their temperaments observed and evaluated, train and socialize them day after day. Yet I know any dog can be unpredictable.

Jon Katz

#8. In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

Edward Hoagland

#9. Like the dog who barks at the train, I bark not because I expect the train to stop, but because I am a dog.

Dwight Longenecker

#10. Modern houses are so small we've had to train our dog to wag its tail up and down and not sideways.

Tacitus

#11. I wish my mind was a dog and I could train it to go sit.

Dan McCall

#12. If your characters write your story, rather than you writing your characters, it's like your dog taking YOU for a walk. Don't let them control you. Take charge and train them to listen to their master.

Jessica Bell

#13. You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.

Ian Dunbar

#14. Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.

Luc De Clapiers

#15. Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.

Katrina Kenison

#16. A Scotch half-breed took charge of him and his mates, and in company with a dozen other dog-teams he started back over the weary trail to Dawson. It was no light running now, nor record time, but heavy toil each day, with a heavy load behind; for this was the mail train,

Jack London

#17. I got a dog-training book. It says Grendel needs mental stimulation, so I tried to train him, but I think he must be retarded.

Ilona Andrews

#18. No dog is too much for me to handle. I rehabilitate dogs, I train people. I am the dog whisperer.

Cesar Millan

#19. I still wish you'd get a dog," she said. "I'd never remember to feed it." "Maybe we could train it to feed you.

Rainbow Rowell

#20. If I had a dog, I'd train him to kill on command. And the command I'd use would be, "Is he friendly?"

Richard M. Weiner

#21. I can train any dog in 5 minutes. It's training the owner that takes longer.

Barbara Woodhouse

#22. On the train, the tears come, and I don't care if people are watching me; for all they know, my dog might have been run over. I might have been diagnosed with a terminal illness. I might be a barren, divorced, soon-to-be-homeless alcoholic.

Paula Hawkins

#23. I'm telling you, go hook up. It isn't like you'll ever see him again. Fun Florida Fling. Ha-ha, the three Fs!" I want to laugh, but I shake my head. "No way. That's all I need. To have sex, get pregnant or get an STD, or worse, catch feelings for the dude. He's obviously a player.

Toni Aleo

#24. If you have time to be with a dog, and the dog is smart, you come to understand the dog, and the dog understands you. They're not hard to train. But they have to be smart, and you have to spend time with them. It's like coaching. I was a better coach when I had smart players.

Bud Grant

#25. It can happen to anybody, getting all hung up on some twenty-year-old quiff. Like the little dog in the freight yard, and the train nips off the end of his tail and he yelps and spins around and it cuts off his head. Never lose your head over a piece of tail.

John D. MacDonald

#26. Feeding the media is like training a dog. You can't throw an entire steak at a dog to train it to sit. You have to give it little bits of steak over and over again until it learns.

Andrew Breitbart

#27. If you live on the railroad tracks the train's going to hit you, Grandpa used to say.
Brown Dog

Jim Harrison

#28. Cats aren't cooperative in the same way that other animals are. You can train a dog to act, but you can't train a cat in the same way.

Michael Showalter

#29. I'm seeing too many kids where they get fixated on their own autism. I'd rather have them get fixated that they like programming computers or they like art or they want to sing in the church choir or they want to train dogs, you know, something that they can turn into a career.

Temple Grandin