Kitten Quotes - Page 3

• No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Anniversary, Funny Sex, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I sometimes think the Pussy-Willows grey
  Are Angel Kittens who have lost their way,
  And every Bulrush on the river bank
  A Cat-Tail from some lovely Cat astray.

  Oliver Herford

  Cat, Angel, Thinking

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• A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.

  Robert Southey

  Children, Years, House

  Robert Southey (1865). “The Doctor, Etc”, p.330

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• Have you ever noticed the softness of a kitten's feet? - they are like raspberries to hold in one's hand.

  Anne Douglas Sedgwick

  Feet, Hands, Raspberries

  Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1924). “The Little French Girl”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company

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• Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Cat, Insomnia, Pet

  "The Twelve Seasons". Book by Joseph Wood Krutch, 1949.

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• You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.

  Jane Pauley

  Sleep, Cat, Animal

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• I once told a journalist that girls call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarcastic, and no matter how many times I've said that it was a joke, it still doesn't go away.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Girl, Sarcastic, Going Away

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• The kitten was six weeks old. It was enchanting, a delicate fairy-tale cat, whose Siamese genes showed in the shape of the face, ears, tail, and the subtle lines of its body. [...] She sat, a tiny thing, in the middle of a yellow carpet, surrounded by five worshipppers, not at all afraid of us. Then she stalked around that floor of the house, inspecting every inch of it, climbed up on to my bed, crept under the fold of a sheet, and was at home.

  Doris Lessing

  Home, Cat, Yellow

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• I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.

  Shirley Manson

  Beautiful, Sexy, Flirty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world.

  Sydney, Lady Morgan

  Cat, People, Half

  Lady Morgan (Sydney) (1829). “The Book of the Boudoir”, p.43

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• Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Cat, Play, Expectations

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1719). “The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux”, p.222

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• A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish.

  James P. Gorman

  Dog, Cat, Ideas

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• It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

  Lewis Carroll

  Cat, Habit, Purring

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, p.290, Broadview Press

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• It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Nature, Cat, Animal

  Eleanor Farjeon (1963). “Faithful Jenny Dove: And Other Illusions”

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• Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

  Garrison Keillor

  Nature, Cat, Garden

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At first I was protecting you two because I promised. Now even if I hadn't promised, I would. You two are like kittens to me. I won't fail you again." I'll admit I got a lump in my throat. I'd never been called someone's kitten before. Sadie sniffled. She brushed something from under her eye. "You're not going to wash us, are you?

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Two, Firsts

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• People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.

  Rollo May

  Life, People, Decision

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

  Terry Pratchett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cat

  "Ghost Cats : Human Encounters with Feline Spirits" by Dusty Rainbolt, (p. 7), 2007.

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• I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn.

  Meg Tilly

  Friends, Character, Yarn

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.

  Joseph Epstein

  Jobs, Cat, Animal

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• Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.

  Dan Greenburg

  Writing, Cat, Animal

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• The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

  Jules Renard

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.26, Tin House Books

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• Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.

  Jean Burden

  Cat, Animal, Fire

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• Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

  Robertson Davies

  Love, Funny, Wise

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• But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.

  Neil Gaiman

  Faces, Purring, Pillow

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