John Grogan Quotes

Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.

John Grogan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 20, 1957

Topics

LoveLoyaltyOptimismDevotionDogs

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

Mel Gibson

DailyOpportunityDayPracticeThink

When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from Philadelphia', but everyone else will say, 'Where are you from, California?' I get England sometimes - bizarre!

Matthew Quick

TravelPeopleSomeoneYouPlaceSay

Maybe Obama was not even the person he was waiting for.

Maureen Dowd

WaitingPersonEvenHeMaybeObama

Who are we to think that our generation is going to be the first generation to benefit from all the sacrifices that others have made without giving some modern-day equivalent of our own lives, fortunes, and sacred honor?

Matt Bevin

ThinkGenerationHonorGivingOthers

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

Mary Astell

GoodPrinciplesReasonTemporaryFew

You have to do what is real and what is right and what is good and what you believe in. It doesn't mean it's always going to work. It doesn't. But when it does, it is truthful and forever.

Mitch Leigh

WorkGoodBelieveYouMeanRight

If I win, great, and I'll move on, and that's my goal, obviously, is to win. If I do lose, I have to accept it, and I have to get back out there, train hard, and just move on. It's not the end of the world.

Joseph Parker

GreatWinWorldEndLoseGoal

Show me the story. I just want to tell a story that pulls me forward.

Debra Winger

MeForwardStoryWantTellJust

As a fair skinned blonde, I disappeared into the background. I've always been a loner, so I suppose dyeing my hair red was a way to say, 'I'm here, I exist, I'm a human being and you can't just push me aside.'

Deborah Ann Woll

RedMeHairBlondePushYou

Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.

Chinua Achebe

LifeMyselfWorldMy LifeSeeing

It's weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out.

Colleen Haskell

LifePeopleMeWeirdMy LifeKnow

I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.

Conrad Black

TryingGoUpStirAroundForeign

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