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Quotes About Prey

It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
~ J. C. Ryle
Slow animals always become prey in the end.
~ John Connolly
Mortality shadowed him like a falcon mantling its wings over dying prey.
~ John Connolly
Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.
~ Michael A. Stackpole
You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.
~ Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor
When mice run, cats give chase.
~ Rachel Vincent, Stray
The dream of a cat is filled with mice
~ Arab proverb
If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.
~ Aristotle
We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds.
~ Norman Jewison
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
~ Thomas Fuller
It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
~ Virgil
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
~ William Inge
Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.
~ Earl Derr Biggers
A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
~ William Congreve
I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food.
~ John Bachman
Is there anything in the jungle too little to be killed?
~ Rudyard Kipling
That's what you get for being food.
~ Margaret Atwood
Dream steals from its lair towards its prey.
~ Margaret Atwood
Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?
~ Alexia Purdy, Disarming
When the tiger executes a merger with the goat, which one walks away?
~ Anne McCaffrey
His sweet delectable human scent was strong and suddenly I saw him divorced from all I knew him. I saw him as prey.
~ Anne Rice
Predators and prey and ruin—it's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
~ Scott Westerfeld
What do you want, Acheron? (Artemis) You know what I want. After all I'm the top of the Food Chain and you…you're the Food. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
What are you? Weak? Don't tell me you want me to spare this pathetic animal when it wouldn't show you any such mercy. Believe me, it's better to take the head off a cobra before the cobra strikes you. (Xypher) A cobra can't help what it is. Why should you punish it because it's doing what the gods created it to do? (Kat)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon