Quotes by John Grogan - Page 1

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.
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Oatmeal
People
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Cats will outsmart dogs every time.
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Dog
Cats
Dogs
Every Time
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In a world of bosses, you are your own master
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There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.
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Owners
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I confess to being a CNN junkie. And when I'm driving, it's all NPR all the time.
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Driving
Npr
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If you still think you're a young pup then you are, no matter what the calendar says
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Pups
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A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.
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Children
Dog
Giving
Good Education
Parent
Child
Greatest
Gift
Greatest Gift
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Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.
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Loyalty
Teacher
Dog
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Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.
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. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.
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I was keenly aware that everybody would have loved for me to do a close sequel or a spin-off to 'Marley and Me.'
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Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.
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Pennsylvania
South Florida
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Rock Band
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Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.
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Home
Dog
Owning A Pet
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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.
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Clever
Dog
Heart
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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.
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Fall
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Living organically is my way of feeling connected to the earth and my own humanity. It's how I feel balanced and at peace with the planet.
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Balanced
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Humanity
Organically
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I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best not to bring it up.
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Incapable
Making Decisions
Propose
Decisions
Best Wife Me
Best Long Me
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Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.
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Honestly
Life Believe Your
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I take a lot of satisfaction in trying to make my land as self-contained as possible, its own little mini environment. Minimal outputs; minimal inputs.
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Input
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Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.
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Loyalty
Quality
Devotion
Dog
Elusive
Humans
Optimism
Selflessness
Unqualified
Come
Dogs
Effortlessly
Qualities
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I collect old rusty hand tools and sharpen and polish them, then use them to build things out of walnut and cherry that I harvest from fallen trees in the woods.
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Fallen
Harvest
Polish
Tools
Woods
Build
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Collect
Hand
Rusty
Sharpen
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Even though I'm totally dependent on modern electronic gizmos, from my laptop to my iPod to my cell phone, I love to embrace old technology or no technology at all.
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Cell Phone
Dependent
Embrace
Totally
Cell
Old
Phone
Electronic
Even
Gizmos
Ipod
Laptop
Though
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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
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Dog
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I can't solve the world's problems, can't even begin to contemplate them all. But on my little corner of Earth, I at least can try to live in a way that treads lightly.
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Earth
Solve
Way
Little
Begin
Try
Them
Contemplate
Corner
Even
Least
Lightly
Problems
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'Marley and Me' was a book I was proud of and believed in, but I thought it would just have a modest audience because it is such a personal story about my marriage and my family.
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Marriage
Audience
Book
Marley
Modest
Proud
Family Marriage Me
Believed
Personal
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In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic. Twenty -six letters form the foundation of a free, informed society.
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Foundation
Magic
Twenties
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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.
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When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my book for adults and assumed only adults, and possibly teenagers, would be drawn to it.
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Children
Marley
Teenager
Assumed
Drawn
Include
Possibly
Teenagers
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Certain people are not going to connect with a book about the effect a dog has on a family. But every one of us has parents and has either said goodbye to those parents or knows that someday they will.
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Goodbye
Someday
Family People Will
Connect
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Never slow down, never look back, live each day with adolescent verve and spunk and curiosity and playfulness. If you think you’re still a young pup, then maybe you are, no matter what the calendar says.
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Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.
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Dog
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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.
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Joy
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A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated of illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. It was really quite simple, and yet we humans, so much wiser and more sophisticated, have always had trouble figuring out what really counts and what does not.
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Heart
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Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are.
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Amazing
Home
Adolescence
Adulthood
Dog
Eye
Finite
Humans
Our Lives
Strong
Sunset
All Our Lives
Dogs
Period
Drives
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A dog has no use for fancy cars or big homes or designer clothes. Status symbols mean nothing to him. A waterlogged stick will do just fine. A dog judges others not by their color or creed or class but by who they are inside. 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.
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Just so you know Labrodor retrivers do not howl.Begals Howl.Wolves howl. Labs do not howl, at lestnot well. Marley attempted twice to howl, both times in answer to a passing police siren, tossing back his head, forming his mouth into an O shape, and letting loose the most pathetic sound Ihave ever heard, more like gargling than answering the call of the wild. Butnow,no question about it he was howling.
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Only then did I see. Something was amiss with Patrick's snap-on one piece, or "onesie" as we manly dads like to call it. His chubby thighs, I now realized, were squeezed into the armholes, which were so tight they must have been cutting off his circulation. The collared neck hung between his legs like an udder. Up top, Patrick's head stuck out through the unsnapped crotch, and his arms were lost somewhere in the billowing pant legs. It was quite a look.
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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.
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Adversity
Dog
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Then I dropped my forehead against his and sat there for a long time, as if I could telegraph a message through our two skulls, from my brain to his. I wanted to make him understand some things. You know all that stuff we’ve always said about you?” I whispered. “What a total pain you are? Don’t believe it. Don’t believe it for a minute, Marley.” He needed to know that, and something more, too. There was something I had never told him, that no one ever had. I wanted him to hear it before he went. Marley,” I said. “You are a great dog.
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