Barbara Holland Quotes About Cats

Quotes about: Cats

• A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.

  Barbara Holland

  Writing, Cat, Animal

  Barbara Holland (1994). “Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives”, Ivy Books

• By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.

  Barbara Holland

  Dog, Teaching, Cat

  Barbara Holland (1994). “Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives”, Ivy Books

• There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!

  Barbara Holland

  Communication, Needs, Language

  Barbara Holland (2010). “Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives”, p.25, Harper Collins

• However long you have a cat and however plainly he lays his life open before you, there is always something hidden, some name he goes by in a place you never heard of.

  Barbara Holland

  Cat, Names, Long

  Barbara Holland (1994). “Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives”, Ivy Books

• Very few people have no opinions about cats.

  Barbara Holland

  Cat, People, Opinion

  Barbara Holland (1994). “Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives”, Ivy Books

• Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all.

  Barbara Holland

  Cat, Data, Trying

  Barbara Holland (1994). “Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives”, Ivy Books

• It's curious that throughout our history together, with no apparent effort, people have been able to think of the cat simultaneously as the guardian spirit of the hearth and home, and as the emblem of freedom, independence, and rootlessness.

  Barbara Holland

  Home, Heart, Cat

  Barbara Holland (1994). “Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives”, Ivy Books

• If we have a decent sort of cat to begin with, and have always treated it courteously, and aren't cursed with meddling, bullying natures, it's a pleasure to let it do as it pleases. With children, this would be wicked and irresponsible, so raising children involves a lot of effort and friction. They need to be taught how to tie their shoes and multiply fractions, they need to be punished for pocketing candy in the grocery store, they need to be washed and combed and forced to clean up their rooms and say please and thank you. A cat is our relief and our reward.

  Barbara Holland

  Bullying, Children, Cat

  Barbara Holland (1989). “Secrets of the Cat: It's [sic] Lore, Legend, and Lives”

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