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My mum loves cats so I took her to see the lion cubs which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn't scared at all and went straight over and kissed one on the mouth! She thought they were just like her pets at home.

    Author: Amanda Holden
   

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

    Author: Anne Tyler
   

Peeves do not make very good pets.

    Author: Bo Bennett
   

Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.

    Author: Bob Barker
   

I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.

    Author: Catherine Deneuve
   

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.

    Author: Chevy Chase
   

I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.

    Author: Connie Stevens
   

I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.

    Author: Donna Douglas
    Topics: Animal

I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing.

    Author: Enya
   

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

    Author: James Cromwell
   

The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

    Author: James Cromwell
   

It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.

    Author: Linda Blair
   

When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.

    Author: Louise Brown
   

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

    Author: Marie Corelli
   

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

    Author: Meryl Streep
   

I do not have any pets. We travel too much.

    Author: Nancy Kerrigan
   

People really do spend a lot of money on their pets - sometimes more then themselves.

    Author: Oksana Baiul
   

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

    Author: Paris Hilton
   

Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.

    Author: Robert Wagner
   

Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at.

    Author: Rupert Sheldrake
   

I've always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!

    Author: Tippi Hedren
   

I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now.

    Author: Tom Felton
   

My father loved people, children and pets.

    Author: Tony Visconti
   

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

    Author: Yvonne Craig
   

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As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets.

    Author: Abu Bakar Bashir
   

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

    Author: Agnes de Mille
   

I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

    Author: Barry Levinson
   

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

    Author: Dick Dale
   

I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

    Author: Elizabeth Jennings
   

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

    Author: Eric Hoffer
   

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

    Author: Frances Wright
   

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.

    Author: Garry Kasparov
   

I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.

    Author: Garry Shandling
   

We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.

    Author: Georg Buchner
   

That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.

    Author: Helena Bonham Carter
   

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.

    Author: Jim Henson
   

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.

    Author: Jim Henson
   

Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.

    Author: Jim Henson
   

The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.

    Author: John Owen
   

It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.

    Author: Johnny Depp
   

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

    Author: Leo Buscaglia
   

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

    Author: Marcus Aurelius
    Topics: Death

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.

    Author: Mo Rocca
   

I'm not invited. I'm not on the A list, haven't been on it in 20 years and my feet have never trod its red fluffy carpets.

    Author: Nick Mancuso
   

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

    Author: Orson Welles
   

Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it.

    Author: Paul Winchell
   

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

    Author: Rumer Godden
   

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

    Author: Thomas Mann
   

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

    Author: Voltaire
   

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

    Author: Voltaire
   

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

    Author: W. Somerset Maugham
   

Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.

    Author: William Laud
   

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