Cat Bird Quotes

#1. I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with.

Hayao Miyazaki

#2. Just when you think you're in the cat-bird's seat, the Angel of Death calls "dibs" on shotgun.

P.L. Reiter

#3. This is why I keep telling Ash to get you a cat or a bird. Guns aren't proper pets.

Andrea Cremer

#4. He possessed the power to depart, as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten.

Emily Bronte

#5. Wouldn't it be most logical for her to change herself into a living thing, like a cat or dog, a bird or mouse?'
That would be the easiest transformation, but Risto is above doing something simple.'
Still, I'd be happier if Dibl would quit eating those bugs. Dibl, stop it. You might eat Gilda.

Donita K. Paul

#6. are more like Dog and Cat and Bird than like Lassie and Fido and Spot. Therefore,

Peter Kreeft

#7. He has a great smile, a cat's smile. He should cough out yellow Tweety Bird feathers, the way he smiles at me.

Gillian Flynn

#8. Poles had a dark joke in 1944, about a bird which falls out of the sky into a cowpat, to be rescued by a cat; its moral, they said, was that Not everyone who gets you out of the shit is necessarily your friend.

Max Hastings

#9. Compassion is essential for any type of relationship between anybody - human to human, human to dog, human to cat, human to bird.

Sharon Gannon

#10. In reduced circumstances the desire to live attaches itself to strange objects. I would like a pet: a bird, say, or a cat. A familiar. Anything at all familiar.

Margaret Atwood

#11. Imagination needs food like every dog and every cat and every bird and every fish.

Amos Oz

#12. I chuckled at this passage from Dr. Tempe Brennan in "Bones Never Lie" by Kathy Reichs: "Back home, I ate Bojangles chicken with Bird and watched a rerun of 'Bones.' For some reason, the cat is nuts about Hodgins.

Kathy Reichs

#13. He gave me a look of mingled anticipation, curiosity, and compassion, like a cat with a captive bird in its claws.

Walter Moers

#14. Hild fetched a lump of grey salt for Mildburh and mortar and pestle to crush it in. She loved the gritty crunch and thump under her hand. It sounded like a cat eating a bird.

Nicola Griffith

#15. You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.

Jim Butcher

#16. The cat has caught the bird, and she will scratch out your eyes as well. You will never see your Rapunzel again.

Marissa Meyer

#17. Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?'

Prince Philip

#18. Kill every dog, every cat, she said slowly. Kill every mouse, every bird. Kill every fish. Anyone objects, kill them too.

George Saunders

#19. Animals of every kind live on the Other Side, .. you are not crazy if you feel the spirit of your cat rubbing against your legs, hear the sound of your dog's toenails clicking on the wood floor, or hear the familiar song your bird used to sing. Our pets do come back to visit us.

Sylvia Browne

#20. Aaron's therapist calls him a wounded bird, but, I ask you, who wouldn't care for a wounded bird? What kind of person sees a bird with a broken wing, cat on the horizon, and walks on by?

David James Poissant

#21. Maybe it's been like that for you till now. But you're not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right ... right?

Haruki Murakami

#22. When his father asked why A wasn't apple or B wasn't bird or C wasn't cat, young Ambrose explained that things didn't always have to be the way you'd expect. Everybody does apples and birds and cats, he said, and it's boring to do what everybody else does.

C.S. Richardson

#23. One can't teach a cat not to catch birds

Albert Einstein

#24. What is a bad thing anyway? A bad thing is something that is different than what I want. Who gets to decide what the bad thing is? Jerry and Esther watched the mother bird lay her eggs in the nest, and then the neighbor's cat ate the baby bird. Esther said "bad cat!" And the cat said, "good bird!

Esther Hicks

#25. If you gave wings to a cat, it would not condescend to be a bird. It would be an angel.

Dick Shawn

#26. A cat's New Year dream is mostly a bird! Don't be like a cat; in New Year, dream something that you have never dreamed! Target for new things!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#27. soft. Her hand was so soft, like cat fur, like bird feathers, like...everything soft he could think of. Her thumb caressing the corner of his mouth and her lips when they first touched his were tentative.

Bonnie Dee

#28. Back home, I ate Bojangles chicken with Bird and watched a rerun of 'Bones.' For some reason, the cat is nuts about Hodgins.

(From Dr. Tempe Brennan in "Bones Never Lie" by Kathy Reichs. It made me chuckle!)

Kathy Reichs

#29. Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!

Pliny The Elder

#30. Maybe that bird that floats
hill belly on the wind up there,
and that cat
that pats
in this grass,
is the same
Infinite
Worldwide
Angel

Jack Kerouac

#31. You don't have to love somebody to miss them. You get used to having them around, like a cat or a bird.

Ann Rinaldi

#32. Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.

Gladys Taber