Leash Quotes

My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash. (Joan Rivers)
I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I can't do it, Joachim. I wouldn't be able to live with myself. A long leash is still a leash. And Coransee will still be at the other end of it, holding on. View quote
Octavia Butler
If you are going to call yourself a Christian-and I don't-then you have to ask yourself a fundamental question, and that is Whom would Jesus torture Whom would Jesus drag around on a dog's leash How can Christians tolerate it It is unconscionable. It has put our young men and women who are over there, fighting a war that they should not have been asked to fight-it has put them in greater danger. View quote
Ron Reagan
You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug. View quote
Michael Parenti
I grew up before there were strict leash laws. View quote
Beverly Cleary
I hate to be obvious," added the Scarecrow, "but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy. View quote
Gregory Maguire
I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me. View quote
Barbara Steele
There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency. View quote
James Bovard
A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends. View quote
Ayn Rand
They were murderers and they still are, but policemen are like dogs on a leash.... The police function under political direction. They go after whoever they are sent after, and that's where the problem comes in.... Black people were moving out of their traditional position in America. Nobody knew what to do about it. The white politicians were confused, the blacks were confused.... the police were told to go out, stop those civil-rights marches ... and they went out and did that. When you talk to police now who participated in that, you find out that they were in the same position we were in - just trying to find the right formula. (Eldridge Cleaver)
...but who can know the heart of a man? Not even he himself, I suspect. A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself. View quote
Robert Jordan
Why do you care what people think? Are you hooked up to their leash? You know anklebiters ate up your personality Try to remember how it felt To just make up your own steps And let anklebiters chew up and spit out someone else. View quote
Hayley Williams
Did you get the leash on him yet, Einstein? View quote
Dean Koontz
I'm on a real short leash here, and I'm tired of your crazy rap! View quote
Mr. T
Is the little girl gonna get shot in the face?! (on "Freak on a Leash" by Korn) View quote
Chris Jericho
In a free society, the ‘vision thing' is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a ‘visionary' bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government... the poorer and less free the people. View quote
Ilana Mercer
I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up. View quote
Kai Ryssdal
People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet. View quote
Michael Parenti
If you give me enough time, enough leash, I can become pretty reasonable. View quote
Michael Shannon
I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child. (Augusten Burroughs)
I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels. View quote
Justin Cronin
Two greyhounds were called a brace, three a leash, but two spaniels or harriers were called a couple. We have also a mute of hounds for a number, a kenel of raches, a litter of whelps, and a cowardice of curs. View quote
Joseph Strutt
When you walk a dog on a short leash, she's close enough to bite you. View quote
Ilona Andrews
Is there anything else you need to tell me?” Every time I look at you, I have to put a leash on myself. "No. View quote
Ilona Andrews