Claws Quotes

• Kindness only goes so far, and then it's time to show your claws.

  RuPaul

  Kindness, Shows

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• Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it’s definitely a Thing with Claws.

  Niall Williams

  May, Feathers

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• Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can’t predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.

  Holly Robinson Peete

  Sleep, Cat, Carrie

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• If the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro

  Bruce Fogle

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent

  Klaus Kinski

  Talent, Beast, Born

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• I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

  T. S. Eliot

  Should Have, Sea, Pairs

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 73 (1917)

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• Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!

  Lewis Carroll

  Son, Bird, Bites

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 1 (1872)

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• Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

  Jim Morrison

  Death, Angel, Wings

  Song: A Feast Of Friends

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• Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophical, Bird, Flying

  "Les Miserables".

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• A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.

  Henri Matisse

  Character, Young, Wells

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• In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.

  Jack Nicholson

  Two, Nails, Ladders

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• Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Scratches, Lasts, Sand

  Wisława Szymborska (1981). “Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems”, p.151, Princeton University Press

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• Nature, red in tooth and claw.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, Science, Law

  In Memoriam canto 56 (1850)

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• It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Past, Peeking, Amir

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.14, Penguin

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• For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit?s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit?s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Horse, Long Ago, Feet

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.

  Walter de La Mare

  Eye, Water, Gleam

  Walter De la Mare (1932). “Old rhymes and new”

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• 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

  Magic, Teeth, Would Be

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• Ready to put your claws where your mouth is, or are you going to cringe behind the big boys and yip all day?" His eyes flared yellow "Is that a challenge?" "Yes it is.

  Ilona Andrews

  Eye, Boys, Yellow

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• Of course, when we got home, we found that Dagda had peed on my down comforter. He had also eaten part of Mom's maidenhair fern and barfed it up on the carpet. Then he had apparently worked himself into a frenzy sharpening his ting by amazingly effective claws on the armrest of my dad's favorite chair. Now he was asleep on a pillow, curled up like a fuzzy little snail. "God, he's so cute," I said, shaking my head.

  Cate Tiernan

  Cute, Mom, Dad

  Cate Tiernan (2007). “Blood Witch: Book Three”, p.39, Penguin

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• There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.

  William Golding

  Teeth, Movement, Lord

  William Golding (1983). “Lord of the Flies”, p.156, Penguin

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• The danger that we have right now are people who get the same information as I do and, therefore, think they'll reach the same conclusions that haven't traded as long, don't have bear claws up and down their backs like I do.

  Jim Cramer

  Thinking, Long, People

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• Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting canine teeth, and being well protected by hair, they could not inflict much harm on one another. In any event, they had little surplus energy for such unproductive behavior; snarling and threatening was a much more efficient way of asserting their points of view.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Fighting, Men, Hair

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.24, RosettaBooks

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• What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.

  Allen Tate

  Blood, Cells, Long

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.49, Macmillan

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• I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

  James Herriot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cat

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• Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

  Alice Hoffman

  Writing, Teeth, Fairy Tale

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