"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.“


-Christopher Hitchens

posted in food


Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends."

-Christopher Hitchens

christmasView Quote
"To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?"

-Christopher Hitchens

womenView Quote
"For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them."

-Christopher Hitchens

womenView Quote
"If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women."

-Christopher Hitchens

womenView Quote
"I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise."

-Christopher Hitchens

womenView Quote
"There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar."

-Christopher Hitchens

warView Quote

More Quotes About food

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"I think that food ties us to our community and our traditions, and it's the thing that makes us feel good and connected."

-Kathy Freston

foodView Quote
"We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity."

-Chris Noth

foodView Quote
"We all thought of chicken as lean, protein-rich food that's good for weight watching, but the truth is chicken might actually be making us fatter!"

-Kathy Freston

foodView Quote
"Penn State is a leader in food science."

-Don Sherwood

foodView Quote
"One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment."

-Charlie Trotter

foodView Quote
"After my pregnancy, I discovered I have an allergy to yeast. Problem is, all the food I love has yeast in it. So I have to relearn how to cook."

-Tia Mowry

foodView Quote