Famous quotes containing the words leopard and/or cats:
“There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“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)