John Grogan Quotes (23 Quotes)


    A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.

    A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.

    Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky

    Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.

    He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.



    In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us.


    It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.


    We now had three girls and one testosterone-pumped guy bird that spent every walking minute doing of of three things: pursuing sex, having sex or crowing boastfully about the sex he had just scored. Jenny observed that roosters are what men would be if left to their own devices, with no social conventions to rein in their baser instincts, and I couldn't disagree. I had to admit, I kind of admired the lucky bastard.

    I was pretty confident the book would be big, but not this big, Marley Me.

    He was locked in here. The wood door frame was totally gone to the studs.

    There's millions of people who clearly understand that a pet is a pet and yet still find themselves really falling in love with these animals. I think I gave voice to that phenomenon.

    Dori is a good person with character. You will notice the little things with her team. Her players will go after a loose ball which rolls out of bounds and hand it to a referee, or they always make sure they tuck their shirts in and are always polite. Those things are even more important than what she's taught them on the court.

    It would be very effective if the pub industry joined the other groups in campaigning for a total ban.

    A ban would have been inconceivable 10 years ago. Opposition to smoking goes across the range of ages and social classes.

    I want it real bad. I worked really hard these four years of high school, and we finally have the chance to be there, so I don't want to waste it.

    Social attitudes have changed. This would have been inconceivable a decade ago. Now there are more women in Parliament and opposition to smoking goes across the range of age and class.

    I was pretty confident it was going to do pretty well, but I had no idea it was going to jump to the top of the best-seller list.

    Marley strolled like a runaway locomotive strolls. (He) was young and wired, with the attention span of algae and the volatility of nitroglycerine.

    Early in his life I thought there may be a collection of stories about the dog but I didn't realize what it would be until he died . Despite his antics, he brought great joy into our lives.

    I thought it would be a walk in the park. But every line, every phrase has to count when you're writing for children.


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