Dog Quote by Clifford D. Simak

“These are the stories that the Dogs tell when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north. Then each family circle…

— Clifford D. Simak

“Gray vines coiled leftward in this northern hemisphere, what winds them shapes the dogwhelk's shell. Weeds sprouted from cinder and brick.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“At this dim season of the year we hunger for such tales. Winter's tales, they are. We want to huddle round them, as if…

— Margaret Atwood

The dog writhing in the gutter, its back broken by a passing car, knows what it is to be alive. So too with the…

— George Greenstein

A burnt dog dreads the fire.

— Willa Cather

“The barking hounds ran in and out of the creek, making slapping waves, turning the Georgia earth to mud under the longleaf pines. With…

— Jo-Ann Costa

“Dogs get howling all down the way. Somewhere a bicycle bell rings. Somewhere else there's a war on. Somewhere else people turn to shadows…

— Tim Winton

Many fires burn below the surface.

— Empedocles

Big fires flare up in a wind, but little ones are blown out unless they are carried in under cover.

— Saint Francis de Sales

Dogs may have kept us company on the hunt, but it was the cats who insisted we invent houses and discover fire.

— Tran Thien Khiem

The fire which seems out often sleeps beneath the cinders

— Anonymous

“Storytellers tell stories, of course, but they aren't alone in doing so. The dawn tells a story; so does the sun as it arcs…

— Edward Myers