Famous quotes containing the word cats:
“You all talk like somebody else made these laws and Pharaoh dont know nothing about em. He makes em his own self and hes glad when we come tell him they hurt. why, thats a whole lot of pleasure to him, to be making up laws all the time and to have a crowd like us around handy to pass all his mean ones on. Why, thats a whole everything under the sun! Next thing you know hell be saying cats cant have kittens.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (18911960)
“A long war like this makes you realise the society you really prefer, the home, goats chickens and dogs and casual acquaintances. I find myself not caring at all for gardens flowers or vegetables cats cows and rabbits, one gets tired of trees vines and hills, but houses, goats chickens dogs and casual acquaintances never pall.”
—Gertrude Stein (18741946)
“When cats run home and light is come,
And dew is cold upon the ground,
And the far-off stream is dumb,
And the whirring sail goes round,
And the whirring sail goes round;
Alone and warming his five wits,
The white owl in the belfry sits.”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)