Quotes About A Lioness

#1. She folded her arms across her breasts and looked at me like a lioness.

Ross Macdonald

#2. She made no other moves, but there was tension in her that said she was a lioness that could strike at any moment.
You know, remarks Magnus conversationally, lionesses do all the work while lions sit around.

Richelle Mead

#3. My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and movie parties. She put me through private school, Horace Mann, in Riverdale. She sent me to camp so that I would learn to compete. She was a lioness, and I was her cub.

Alan Furst

#4. I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

Alice Hoffman

#5. If I were a lioness, I would snarl. As it is, I brood.

Tish Harrison Warren

#6. She attracted people to her; she had presence, an uncommon magnetism. Documenting her effect on her habitat, a naturalist would likely have compared her to a lioness: strong, sleek, and invariably surrounded by her pride.

Mohsin Hamid

#7. His two men pulled her off him, with Gisela kicking and fighting like a lioness.

Melanie Dickerson

#8. A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.

Jacki Weaver

#9. A fiery little cat you are, Caecelia. Like a lioness in heat, oh how you bloom.

Sai Marie Johnson

#10. Impossible," he muttered. "Just impossible to reason with." "Don't blame me because you can't grasp the female mind." "The female mind is easy compared to that of a lioness. You're all freaking nuts." "Why thank you.

Eve Langlais

#11. I've always known what I've wanted, but I used to be shy about expressing that in regards to my career. So I've become a lioness. If something's happening that I don't necessarily feel comfortable about, I will speak my mind. Or if I want to do something, I go for it.

Tia Mowry

#12. She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence.

Bonnie Greer

#13. He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

Jeremy Taylor

#14. There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness ... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.

Andrew Jackson

#15. A lioness. She mates with her lion and he thinks the moment is about him when it is really about her, her children, her posterity. Her tricki s to make him think that he is king of the bush, but what he does a king matter? Really, she is king and queen and everything in between.

Yaa Gyasi

#16. Wounded vanity can make a woman more vindictive than a lioness robbed of her cubs.

W. Somerset Maugham

#17. I'm a lioness. I have four cubs. I'm a mom. I want to take care of my kids and protect them.

Heidi Klum

#18. If a lioness spends her hours pacing back and forth in a cage of gold with the finest meats at her disposal, does that make her any less of a prisoner? If that same feline's fangs are filed down to blunt, un-tearing teeth and her roar is silenced, can she still be called a lioness?

Kristen Reed

#19. I'm gonna get in his face, Jackie whispered her threat and Colt couldn't help it, he smiled into his phone. Jackie got a hold of him, hatchet or not, Denny Lowe didn't stand a chance. A lioness was lethal when her cubs were under threat.

Kristen Ashley

#20. Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

Sigmund Freud

#21. A man would know he had to walk through fire and tame a lioness with his bare hands every time he approached you. Every day an adventure, and every night ...

Robert Jordan

#22. I can be like a lioness when defending my people.

Shakira

#23. The voice of an Angel, the Heart of a Lamb, the spirit of a Lioness, the presence of a Goddess, love you R.I.P Whitney Houston.

Wyclef Jean

#24. i am
a lioness
who is no longer
afraid to let the world
hear her
roar

-an ode to me

Amanda Lovelace

#25. Every gesture was one of disorder and violence, as if a lioness had come into the room.

Anais Nin

#26. I then watched filing past and besieging me old men in search of easy revenue, young men in search of adventure to occupy their leisure. My successive refusals gave me in town the reputation of a 'lioness' or 'mad woman.' Who let loose this greedy pack of hounds after me?

Mariama Ba

#27. A Sikh woman takes the surname Kaur on baptism. Kaur was also a common surname for Rajput women and means both a princess and lioness.

Khushwant Singh

#28. He was big ... all over. The lioness in her purred, and she was disgusted with the animal. Looks were not everything. So what if he looked like a sex god? That meant nothing. Oh, it means a lot. A body like that, I can ride him like the stallion he is. Stupid cat. You

Milly Taiden

#29. Diseases do not discriminate, parasites know no bigotry, wild fires hold no opinion on what or who they incinerate, and a river will just as soon swallow up a fawn as it will drag down and drown the lioness chasing it.

John Zande

#30. My glowing form was so heavy, its feet sank into the top of the tank.
"Sekhmet!" I yelled.
The lioness whirled and snarled, trying to locate my voice.
"Up here, kitty!" I called.
She spotted me and her ears went back. "Horus?"
'Unless you know another guy with a falcon head.

Rick Riordan

#31. I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness ...

Jean Rhys

#32. Fucking hell! The lioness won. She got a burst of speed and let the bones crack, muscles tense, and skin turned to fur so flawlessly, she didn't slow. Now she ran on all fours. A loud hiss escaped from her lioness. Pissed wasn't even the word at this point. Andi wanted blood. Someone

Milly Taiden

#33. Some lioness whelped you on a mountain rock
In Libya, or else you're Scylla's child
Whose womb's all barking dogs, for only a wild
Beast with the nature of a beast could mock
A desperate man making a last appeal
Down on his knees. Bitch heart too hard to feel!

Catullus

#34. From what I'd witnessed, Alona Dare was single minded, determined, and ruthless. If high school was a zoo, she was the lioness running the hunt on the hapless tourists who'd wandered into the wrong enclosure.

Stacey Kade

#35. In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when she senses a threat to her cubs. The lioness, the tigress and the mama bear are all examples.

Marianne Williamson

#36. Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad ...

Jean Rhys