Cats Cradle Quotes - Page 2

• Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

  Jay Griffiths

  Cat, Animal, Squirrels

  "Fifty years on, the silence of Rachel Carson's spring consumes us" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2012.

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• She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Heart, World, Pay

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.128, Dial Press

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• And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, Little boy blue and the man in the moon. "When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when, But we'll get together then. You know we'll have a good time then.

  Harry Chapin

  Dad, Home, Cat

  Song: Cats In The Cradle

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• Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Knowing, Cradle

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 76), 1963.

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• You get what you pay for.

  Gabriel Biel

  Pay, Contradicting, Cradle

  "Expositio Canonis Missae" by Gabriel Biel, Lectio 86, 1576.

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• A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Liars, Lying, Eye

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• Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Looks, Sometimes, Wonder

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.11, Dial Press

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• Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Parent, Literature, Cradle

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• Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Wings, Feet, Tin

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• And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
  Little boy blue and the man in the moon.

  Harry Chapin

  Song, Cat, Boys

  Song: Cat's in the Cradle, 1974

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• In this world, you get what you pay for.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  World, Pay, Cradle

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.128, Dial Press

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• How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Complicated, Cradle, Machinery

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.66, Dial Press

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• All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lying, Writing, Shameless

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press

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• As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Stupid, Men, Lovely

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.256, Dial Press

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• Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Ideas, Pay, Attention

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.101, Dial Press

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