Quotes About Cat Paws

#1. the flicker of a memory
is all we can cling to
for our cherished ghosts

From "Cat Paws on a Windscreen

J.S. Watts

#2. A new scientific truth is usually not propagated in such a way that opponents become convinced and discard their previous views. No, the adversaries eventually die off, and the upcoming generation is familiarised anew with the truth.

Max Planck

#3. Be like the cat, so alive after the mouse, never wondering or questioning why,
when there is really only God, only God ...
touching our
paws.

Rumi

#4. If the world is not safe for babies you are never going to get a democracy worth having.

Marie Stopes

#5. And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

Oscar Wilde

#6. Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws like moths, jewelled cat, miraculous cat! Cat, cat, cat, cat.

Doris Lessing

#7. Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse ? Does that not mean something ? That we felt so much, so deeply, before even speaking?

Charles Dickens

#8. Minky, the littlest cat, look as if she stepped in snow when she was a kitten and the snow never melted. She is all black except for her white paws and the spots on her head and tail where the snow didn't melt either.

Anne Michaels

#9. As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'

Tananarive Due

#10. Jace: Feels like I just woke up from a bad dream.
Max Guevara: I know. One of the reasons why I don't sleep. Let me know if it's a boy or a girl.
Jace: Either way, name's gonna be Max.

James Cameron

#11. The cat looked at its paws and frantically back at its body, as if it had just been transformed into a cat and couldn't accept it.

Heather O'Neill

#12. It was a day to be inside somewhere, cosseted and loved; by a warm fireside with the clatter of friendly cups and saucers, a sleepy cat licking his paws, a cyclamen in a pot on a windowsill putting forth new buds.

Daphne Du Maurier

#13. a cat has claws at the end of its paws, and a complex sentences has a pause at the end of its clause

Stephen King

#14. Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet.

William Shakespeare

#15. - I have come for advice.
- That is easily got.
- And help.
- That is not always so easy.
#The Five Orange Pips

Arthur Conan Doyle

#16. You are asleep. Deep, deep asleep - and then the world caves in. The cat has leapt from the top window onto your stomach. He is saturated. He is hungry. He taps you into full wakefulness with a sodden paw "Could you open a can?"

Pam Brown

#17. Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as I used to stoke his chops. A human caress from a cat. I felt very meagre and ill-educated that I could not purr.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#18. Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites. Chaos and Order combined equal balance.

Richard Garriott

#19. In front of her the cat Greebo, glad to be home again, lay on his back with all four paws in the air, doing his celebrated something-found-in-the-gutter impersonation.

Terry Pratchett

#20. You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist.
But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to!

Humbert Wolfe

#21. Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

Zoe Lister-Jones

#22. I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their supper time. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#23. Looking down I saw the cat Basket touching me with one of her paws. I hadn't seen her move, though she was a good six

Mary Bowers

#24. What's the difference between a cat and a comma?
One has claws at the end of its paws, and one is a pause at the end of a clause.

Geoff Tibballs

#25. Where's Feathertail? Graystripe's gaze flicked past Stormfur as if he expected to see the pale-gray she-cat waiting at the foot of the rocks. Squirrelpaw stared at her paws. Poor, poor Stormfur. He brought the worst news of all, to RiverClan as well as ThunderClan.

Erin Hunter

#26. The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.

John Wooden

#27. Beauty is common but what's rare is a great energy and outlook on life.

Neil Strauss