“Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.”

“If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.”

Harriet Tubman (1820–1913) African-American abolitionist and humanitarian

“Do not stop half way and do not ever go backward. There is no way behind you.”

Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

“The old dog barks backward without getting up;
I can remember when he was a pup.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

“You ever go eat breakfast at Denny's, and then go to the toilet and sit in there so long you gotta order lunch from the stool? You ever do that? Now I know why they call it the Grand Slam?”

Larry the Cable Guy (1963) American stand-up comedian, actor, country music artist, voice artist

“Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?… And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?”

André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist

“Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.”

Richard Belzer (1944) American actor and comedian

“Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.”

Jack Kornfield (1945) American writer

“The dog may be man
Horse, donkey, too
But the bull-
Man can not
Anytime.”

Ravindra Prabhat book Smriti Shesh

“Why do I always want to sock it to you hard?
Let you know what love is like when I’m
keeping all my cards up on the shelf
Where you can’t see them
Why do I always want to keep it to myself?”

Zooey Deschanel (1980) American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter