Animal Quote by Kathi Appelt

“People are vastly more complicated than dogs and served a much more important purpose. The job of a good dog was ultimately to be…

— W. Bruce Cameron

“The job of a good dog was ultimately to be with them, remaining by their sides no matter what course their lives might take.…

— W. Bruce Cameron

“He remembered how satisfied he had been as a youngster, and that with the little he had had - a dog, a stick, an…

— Bernard Malamud

“He’d had a dog once, in that way he’d had everything in his childhood, ordinary but a lot less lasting.”

— Anna Quindlen

“a dog would be comfortably companionable and an uncomplicated distraction from the inside of his own head, and that one could safely say, out…

— Joanna Trollope

“I felt about him as I might feel about a friendly, dimwitted dog that had decided to move in with us. He could not…

— Elizabeth Peters

“Yet for all the aggravation of tending them, it was not so terrible an ordeal. He’d never kept a pet before and keeping close…

— R. Lee Smith

“This was, I decided, my purpose as a dog, to comfort the boy whenever he needed me.”

— W Bruce Cameron

“Dogs have such a limited lifespan to teach us about friendship and loyalty...perhaps they know we have a short span of attention.”

— Dan Cohen

“most dogs seemed contented enough, and often seemed rather happier than the humans attached to them.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“…he was simply a man who had gone even further into loneliness than others - and that's a real exploit, by the way; where…

— Romaine Gary

“I realized clearly, perhaps for the first time, what strained and anxious lives dogs must lead, so emotionally involved in the world of men,…

— Anonymous