Cats

Famous quotes containing the word cats:

    Animals are ever so psychic. There are some people who just can’t come in here.... The cats particularly. They seem to know. You can fool everybody, but landy M deary-me, you can’t fool a cat. They seem to know who’s not right, if you know what I mean.
    Dewitt Bodeen (1908–1988)

    Sometimes they are little cats mewing and scratching
    at the door, sometimes they are her grandmother’s voice,
    and sometimes they are gigantic men of light whispering
    to her to get up, to get up, to get up.
    Joy Harjo (b. 1951)

    Here was a little of everything in a small compass to satisfy the wants and the ambition of the woods,... but there seemed to me, as usual, a preponderance of children’s toys,—dogs to bark, and cats to mew, and trumpets to blow, where natives there hardly are yet. As if a child born into the Maine woods, among the pine cones and cedar berries, could not do without such a sugar-man or skipping-jack as the young Rothschild has.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)