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Quotes About Cats

Somewhere in the ruins above them, the cats are howling.
~ Anthony Doerr
cats are matter, with no spirit to complicate it.
~ Frank Sheed
I grew up in a home where animals were ever-present and often dominated our lives. There were always horses, dogs, and cats, as well as a revolving infirmary of injured wildlife being nursed by my sister the aspiring vet.
~ Julia Glass
I like to position a cat tree in the window so the cats can look outside and feel the sunlight.
~ Beth Ostrosky Stern
I'm not much for cats. I'm terrified of mice. I've worked a lot with elephants, and they are extremely intelligent and sensitive, and thankfully, they seem to like me. You never want to get on the bad side of an elephant. And never trust a chimp.
~ Mary Ellen Mark
People want to marry me for companionship. No thanks! I've got my cats for that!
~ Ruth Rendell
The first thing I do when I come home is check the refrigerator for cats because I'm convinced that if one dies, my husband will hide it in there because I don't cook and so I won't see it. I do drink Cokes, though, so technically he should hide the corpse in the oven. And now I need to start checking the oven.
~ Jenny Lawson
Excellent. Listen, do you like cats?" "I don't know. Why?" "I just had a thought. You might like having one. They're very independent, answer to no one, usually self-sufficient, sometimes affectionate, more often not, but... But they're company. There's something about being owned by one that fills the lonely space with a presence. And hair. Tons of hair. I have a cat. And a robo vac.
~ Robyn Carr
Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.
~ Rod McKuen
After 15 years living in Paris, I felt myself growing old and stagnant—similar to stagnant water sitting in a bowl; cats have a survival instinct not to drink this water. They can sense when it's old and may be carrying air-borne germs. After 15 years in Paris, I no longer felt drinkable.
~ Roman Payne
I am convinced that only evil can come from a person who does not like cats.
~ Louise M. Gouge
Kittens HAVE to be drowned, I admit, or the world would be overrun. But no decent, grown-up cat should be done to death -- unless he sucks eggs.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
In every country is a word which attempts the sound of cats, to match an inisolable portrait in the clouds to a din in the air. But the constant noise is not an omen of music to come.
~ Lyn Hejinian
No valentines from the cats again.
~ Lynne Truss
Gdy to koty mia?y definiowa? ?wiat, wa?ne miejsce zajmowa?yby w nim po?erane dla zabawy muchy
~ M. John Harrison
Cresci naturalmente, como crescem as magnólias e os gatos. Talvez os gatos são menos matreiros, e, com certeza, as magnólias menos inquietas.
~ Machado de Assis
Mamma loves morals," she said, at eleven, "Papa loves cats.
~ Andrew Levy
After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room--we went back to Sabrina's and re-released the cats to their natural habitat.
~ Sarah Dessen
Clothes I wear for mushroom hunting are rarely sent to the cleaner. They constitute a collection of odors I produce and gather while rambling in the woods. I notice not only dogs (cats, too) are delighted (they love to smell me).
~ John Cage
My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.
~ John Cheever
David's mother would often tell him stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way people were alive,or even dogs or cats. People were alive whether you chose to notice them or not, while dogs tended to make you notice them if they decided that you weren't paying enough attention. Cats, meanwhile, were very good at pretending people didn't exist at all when it suited them...
~ John Connolly
If cats could count, they'd start getting nervous around the time they put paid to their fifth life.
~ John Connolly
Before she became ill, David's mother would often tell him that stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way that people were alive, or even dogs or cats. People were alive whether you chose to notice them or not, while dogs tended to make you notice them if they decided that you weren't paying them enough attention. Cats, meanwhile, were very good at pretending people didn't exist at all when it suited them, but that was another matter entirely.
~ John Connolly
You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.
~ Jack Hanna