Quotes and Sayings about Pets
"People really do spend a lot of money on their pets - sometimes more then themselves."
- Oksana Baiul
(Related: Money, People, Pets)
"Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered."
- Bob Barker
(Related: People, Joy, Nothing, Pets)
"As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets."
- Abu Bakar Bashir
(Related: Now)
"Peeves do not make very good pets."
- Bo Bennett
(Related: Pets)
"The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness."
- Mark Bittman
(Related: Diet, Right)
"It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind."
- Linda Blair
(Related: People, Gifts, Mankind, Pets)
"When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so."
- Louise Brown
(Related: Work, Opportunity, Children, Pets, Reason)
"We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces."
- Georg Buchner
(Related: Being)
"We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves."
- Leo Buscaglia
(Related: Being, Force)
"That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses."
- Helena Bonham Carter
"Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish."
- Chevy Chase
(Related: Personality, Pets)
"I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night."
- Marie Corelli
(Related: Home, HusbPurpose, Night, Pets)
"I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous."
- Yvonne Craig
(Related: Life, People, Animals, Growing up, Pets)
"The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional."
- James Cromwell
(Related: Attitude, Animals, Pets)
"Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life."
- James Cromwell
(Related: Life, Care, Obligation, Pets, Responsibility)
"I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards."
- Dick Dale
(Related: Play)
"I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel like I'm set. And I don't have any baggage, for better or worse. I don't have any plants or pets or kids. I can lock the door and go. I need to be with somebody for whom that's okay."
- Dana Delany
(Related: Life, People, Kids, Pets, Plants)
"I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them."
- Catherine Deneuve
(Related: Pets)
"It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty."
- Johnny Depp
(Related: Experience, Time, Being, Hollywood, Pretty)
"I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them."
- Donna Douglas
(Related: Love, Children, Fool, Pets)
"I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing."
- Enya
(Related: Dogs, Pets, Security)
"I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now."
- Tom Felton
(Related: Fish, Now, Pets)
"If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom."
- Rumer Godden
(Related: Life, Books)
"I've always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!"
- Tippi Hedren
(Related: Thought, Animals, Pets)
"When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Interest)
"Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Friends, Months)
"Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Key)
"Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Life, Bed, Pets, Woman)
"The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Men, Nature, Angels, Human nature)
"My mum loves cats so I took her to see the lion cubs which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn't scared at all and went straight over and kissed one on the mouth! She thought they were just like her pets at home."
- Amanda Holden
(Related: Home, Thought, Cats, Old, Pets)
"I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own."
- Elizabeth Jennings
(Related: Hate, Living, Word)
"Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin."
- Garry Kasparov
(Related: Parliament, Today)
"I do not have any pets. We travel too much."
- Nancy Kerrigan
(Related: Travel, Pets)
"Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets."
- William Laud
(Related: Men, Church, Churches)
"I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that."
- Barry Levinson
(Related: Chance, Television)
"I'm not invited. I'm not on the A list, haven't been on it in 20 years and my feet have never trod its red fluffy carpets."
- Nick Mancuso
(Related: Feet, Years)
"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."
- Thomas Mann
(Related: Time, Beginning, Bells, Fire)
"Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets."
- W. Somerset Maugham
(Related: Money, Destiny)
"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently."
- Agnes de Mille
(Related: Life, Decisions, Destiny, Sound)
"The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace."
- John Owen
(Related: Gifts, Grace, May, Windows)
"When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny."
- Mo Rocca
(Related: Funny, War, People, Dying, Focus, Protest)
"You guys own the Muppets, and you're just kind of sitting on 'em. I really love the Muppets, and I think I know how to bring the franchise back."
- Jason Segel
(Related: Love)
"I've just grown a little disappointed with 'Muppets in the Old West', 'Muppets Under Water' and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80's, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back."
- Jason Segel
(Related: Movies, Old, Trying, Want, Water)
"I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad."
- Garry Shandling
"Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at."
- Rupert Sheldrake
(Related: Home, Being, Dogs, Pets, Sense)
"I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs."
- Connie Stevens
(Related: Dogs, Pets)
"The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Mother, Being, Pets)
"Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!"
- Anne Tyler
(Related: Pets)
"My father loved people, children and pets."
- Tony Visconti
(Related: Father, People, Children, Pets)
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
- Voltaire
(Related: Forbidden, Numbers, Sound)
"All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
- Voltaire
(Related: Numbers, Sound)
"Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans."
- Robert Wagner
(Related: Love, Compassion, Pets)
"Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate."
- Orson Welles
(Related: Politicians, Popularity, Senate)
"Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it."
- Paul Winchell
(Related: Children)
"Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period."
- Frances Wright
(Related: Christmas, Pets)