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Quotes About Prey

Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly.
~ Jim Butcher
Sometimes the best defense is a T. rex.
~ Jim Butcher
Life is a food chain, and it's better to be the diner than the dinner.
~ Jim Davis
Whoever becomes a lamb will find a wolf to eat him.
~ Vilfredo Pareto
There, he was a lion. Here, he could end up being someone's lunch.
~ Vince Flynn
The wolves will get you if the moths won't.
~ W.H. Auden
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
~ Peter De Vries
Come try my strength, you dogs who thought to attack helpless prey! But when you do, O beasts of night, know that you face the Lord of Night. I am Death!
~ Piers Anthony
This guy, and he alone, hunts close to the house for field mice and birds.
~ Dean Koontz
The noises on the roof stopped. The six waited. The night seemed to be crouched like a wild thing, studying its prey, timing its attack.
~ Dean Koontz
didn't come for a loan," Mitch assured him. "In every species of animal, the primary obligation of parents is to teach self-sufficiency to their offspring. The prey must learn evasion, and the predator must learn to hunt.
~ Dean Koontz
Fraser stood quite still for a moment, breathing slowly and regarding Woodbine as a tiger might regard a hedgehog: yes, he could eat it, but would the inconvenience of swallowing be worth it?
~ Diana Gabaldon
Michael Crichton entitled PREY (2002). This fiction is a gripping read, in which one learns much about nanotechnology and
~ Unknown
Cats can become ill if they hunt and kill mice.
~ Unknown
Gek hoe de opwinding van de jacht je vergaat als jij degene bent die wordt opgejaagd.
~ Unknown
The varying modes of flight exhibited by our diurnal birds of prey have always been to me a subject of great interest, especially as by means of them I have found myself enabled to distinguish one species from another, to the farthest extent of my power of vision.
~ John James Audubon
He was the wolf, and she was the rational hare, forgiving and accepting him as he was.
~ Louise Bourgeois
There was more in those eyes than any common triumph. They had been hooded like a bird of prey, and now they flamed with a hawk's pride. A white fanatic heat burned in them, and I realized for the first time the terrible thing I had been up against. This man was more than a spy; in his foul way he had been a patriot.
~ John Buchan
The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep.
~ George Herbert
Embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it.
~ Darren Shan, Bec
When its time has come the prey goes to the hunter.
~ Persian Proverb
as zookeepers, the Zabinskis understood both vigilance and predators; in a swamp of vipers, one planned every footstep. Shaped by the gravity of wartime, it wasn't always clear who or what could be considered outside or inside, loyal or turncoat, predator or prey.
~ Diane Ackerman
Those who stalked us as their prey paid little heed to the hour; the sun rose above gangs of kidnappers who grabbed free men and women off the street in broad daylight and sold them elsewhere to be consumed, digested, and excreted from the bowels of the republic.
~ Unknown
Where would they take her? That was the psychology of tracking; learn from the spoor and anticipate your prey's next move.
~ Unknown