D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Dogs might be cute but they’re not really a woman’s best friend. Not cats either, no. A woman’s best companion is her bag.”
“Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard.”
Source: Dave Barry Talks Back
“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”
“Dogs never lie about love.”
Source: The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving: How Dogs Have Captured Our Hearts for Thousands of Years
“Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition
“Dogs often remind us of the human, ail-too human. Cats, never.”
“Dogs own space and cats own time.”
Source: Hild: A Novel
“Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans -- the ability to make you feel valued just by being you -- and it was something of a miracle to me to be on the receiving end of all that acceptance. The dog didn't care what I looked like, or what I did for a living, or what a train wreck of a life I'd led before I got her, or what we did from day to day. She just wanted to be with me, and that awareness gave me a singular sensation of delight.”
Source: Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs
“Dogs read the world through their noses and write their history in urine.”
“Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint.”
“Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God.”
“Dogs see with their eyes. Humans see with their minds. That makes all the difference in how they live their lives." -- Avatar”
Source: Drop the Leash: Let Go of the Past and Love in the Present
“Dogs seek attention from you. But by paying them that attention when they want it, you're reinforcing the bad or hyperactive or anxious behavior that you're trying to avoid. Practice - no touch, no talk, no eye contact - and see how you fare. You might be surprised at how quickly the dog settles down and looks to you as his pack leader for direction.”
“Dogs seem more photogenic than cats. In photos most cats look like sociopaths.”
“Dogs seem to like you,” she pointed out.
He flashed her another grin that inspired some nice tingles here, there, and everywhere. “Maybe they’re on to something.”
Source: Wolf Unleashed
“Dogs serve people, but people serve cats.”
Source: Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
“Dogs share 99% of their genes with wolves and can have children with each other. However, both are also so closely related to a whole host of other species that it is possible to for them to produce fertile offspring with jackals, coyotes, the Australian dingo, the African wild dog, Arctic foxes, and the Black fox Coren (2013). The species boundary is obviously not a barrier for reproduction. And of course, all types of dogs are able to cross-breed.”
Source: The Dog and his Philosopher: A Call for Autonomy and Animal Rights
“Dogs should be called by names which are not very long, so that each may obey more quickly when he is called, but they should not have shorter names than those which are pronounced in two syllables.”
“Dogs smoke in France.”
“Dogs started running wild and attacking people in Florida after hurricane Ian.”
“Dogs teach us how to play and help us see life through fresh eyes, reframing situations, alleviating stress, and encouraging spontaneity. The gaze of "non-human Others" can redefine ourselves. ("I am young and have no dog")”
“Dogs understand your moods and your thoughts, and if you are thinking unpleasant things about your dog, he will pick it up and be downhearted.”
Source: No Bad Dogs: The Woodhouse Way
“Dogs wait for us faithfully.”
“Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.”
Source: The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more
“Dogs want to be people. That's what their lives are about. They don't like being a dog. They're with people all the time, they want to graduate. My dog would sit there all day, he would watch me walk by, he would think to himself, "I could do that! He's not that good.”
“Dogs, we use the sky to tell time, like any sensible creature. Sky says it's dawn? Time to eat. It's noon? Time to eat. It's afternoon? Time to eat. It's dusk? Time to eat. It's midnight? Time to eat.
Point is, it's always time to eat.”
Source: The One and Only Bob
“Dogs who chase cars evidently see them as large, unruly ungulates badly in need of discipline and shepherding.”
Source: The Hidden Life of Dogs
“Dogs will eat till they die. Cats will leave food in the dish, incomprehensible to a dog.”
“Dogs will give you unconditional love until the day they die. Cats will make you pay for every mistake you've ever made since the day you were born.”
Source: Pet Humor!
“Dogs with broken legs are shot; men with broken souls write through the night.”
“Dogs would make totally incompetent criminals. If you could somehow get a group of dogs to understand the concept of the Kennedy assassination, they would all immediately confess to it. Whereas you'll never see a cat display any kind of guilty behavior, despite the fact that several cats were seen in Dallas on the grassy knoll area, not that I wish to start rumors.”
“Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.”
“Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random lick of a hand and the furry chin draped over the instep are calculated to let the shaky owner know that a friend is nearby.”
“Dogs, dogs, go away, let me live another day.”
“Dogs, for a reason that can only be described as divine, have the ability to forgive, let go of the past, and live each day joyously. It's something the rest of us strive for.”
“Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.”
“Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.”
Source: Candide: Or Optimism
“Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.”
“Dogs, ye have had your day!”
Source: The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson
“Dogs...do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the objects they have not. There is nothing of value they have to bequeath except their love and their faith.”
“Dogs: the best friend you will ever have that pees on your couch and stays your friend.”
“Dogsled-riding is a sport that is relaxing as well as fragrant.”
“Dogwalker is a book of fiction, with characters based on the types of people who truly exist in the world. I've seen them and know them - some of them I know really well. Although the stories are sometimes gritty and unsettling, my hope is that in the end they hit a positive note.”
“Dogwood Blues by Brenda Sutton Rose is a masterful work of classic small-town fiction.”
“Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have faith.”
Source: Bingo Night at the Fire Hall: The Case for Cows, Orchards, Bake Sales, & Fairs
“Dog’ is ‘God’ spelled backward; you know that. That’s why you’re here, to help the nuns do God’s work.”
Source: A Dog's Journey: A Novel
“Doha wasn’t a very good friend.
But he was a good person.
And he was a great engineer.”
Source: The Paragon
“Doin' music, musicians and artists, we have the advantage of doin' something that is our passion. At the same time it's fun, and it's like a dream to other people, and live off it, feed yourself off of it. 'Cause it's hard, you know what I"m sayin'? You really gotta grind and you really gotta love and enjoy what you do, if you're gonna make it. 'Cause if you don't believe in yourself, if you don't got people believin' in you, people aren't gonna buy it.”
“Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation.”
“Doing 'All Good Things' really felt like I was acting for myself rather than anyone else. It gave me a freedom I'd never had before, or knew I had, to do whatever I want to, and to argue my opinions and not just feel like the cute girl on set or the girl in a boy's club. I figured out how I could be both. And it's been different ever since.”