Tooth And Claw Quotes

#1. Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!
(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

Russell T. Davies

#2. Mother Nature, as Tennyson said, is "red in tooth and claw," demolishing every beautiful thing she has ever created.

Caitlin Doughty

#3. I do not blench at nature red in tooth and claw... And much as I love The Wind in the Willows and the works of Beatrix Potter, I never dress my animals in clothes... They behave as animals should behave, with the exception that they open their mouths and speak the Queen's English.

Dick King-Smith

#4. Anger seek it prey,
Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.

George Eliot

#5. Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, 'red in tooth and claw.' That came about because people misread Darwin's 'survival of the fittest.'

Lewis Thomas

#6. Motherhood isn't soft and cozy and sweet; it's selfish ferocity, red in tooth and claw.

Rosamund Lupton

#7. How noble. Oh we would fell many ... -you with magic and blade, whilst my weapons would be tooth and claw-but it would be futile in the end. They are too numerous ... We cannot defeat them, only be defeated. - Saphira

Christopher Paolini

#8. Nature, red in tooth and claw.

Alfred Tennyson

#9. Jealousy was not a green-eyed monster, she thought. It was red in tooth and claw, with glaring, fiery eyes. Her

Marion Chesney

#10. Mother nature is a brutal bitch, red in tooth and claw, who destroys what she creates.

Ernest Becker

#11. They say, when facing the onslaught of tooth and claw, a creature's heart can simply quit.

Ellen Hopkins

#12. Nature red in tooth and claw.' Perhaps she doesn't

Donna Tartt

#13. It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.

Charles Krauthammer

#14. The natural world is a world of war; the natural man is a warrior; the natural law is tooth and claw. All else is error. A condition of combat everywhere exists. We are born into perpetual conflict. It is our inheritance, even as it was the heritage of previous generations.

Ragnar Redbeard

#15. Some of my favorite poems are "confessional" poems written in the voices of aliens ("Southbound on the Freeway" by May Swenson" and "Report from the Surface" by Anthony McCann), sheep ("Snow Line" by John Berryman) or a yak ("The Only Yak in Batesville, Virginia" by Oni Buchanan).

Matthea Harvey

#16. Snatched out of my own small niche by an unexpected strong current, taken in and surrounded by Jamie and his life. Caught forever among the strange currents that pulsed through this outlandish environment. The

Diana Gabaldon

#17. I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'

Ingmar Bergman

#18. Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.

Chanakya

#19. Gertrude reckoned sherry had been as much to do with Myrtle's early retirement as had the demands of celebrating Diwali.

John Wiltshire

#20. She didn't recognize him and he didn't recognize her, because people and places change and what once was will never be again.

T.C. Boyle

#21. I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

Studs Terkel

#22. stood side by side. My mother too had served the Lady. Too young to bear arms in the last war, from within the palisade where she trained to take

Catherine M. Wilson

#23. You know, if I ruled the world, which I fully intend to do one day by the way, first thing I'd do ...

David Nicholls

#24. According to Plato, Socrates believed all knowledge came from a divine state, but humans had forgotten it. Most lived in a cave of ignorance, but one could become enlightened by climbing out of the darkness and understanding the divide between the spiritual and material planes.

Gwendolyn Womack

#25. There was a time when love was the law.
There was a time for the tooth and the claw,
Last rites given, no holds barred.
Heaven express on my credit card.

Jethro Tull

#26. Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.

Abbie Hoffman

#27. You know I'm a firm believer that women come in all shapes and all sizes and you know certain people like certain things. It's all good, whether it's big, small, whatever.

Vinnie Paul

#28. I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses, and then making them more radical than they are. People tend to listen to me.

Mads Mikkelsen

#29. Cold has its own taste. It tastes of a bitten tongue. It coils around you, a living thing, a beast that means to kill you, not with wrath, not with tooth nor claw, but with the mercy of surrender, with the kindness of letting you go gentle into the long night after such a burden of pain and misery.

Mark Lawrence

#30. Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn ... the thorn's only purpose is to hurt.

Mark Lawrence

#31. Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.

Billy Joel