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Quotes About Prey

Fishing is not a benign activity; it is hunting in the water.
~ Sharon Gannon
... all reputable falconers agreed that for hunting purposes the only way you could reliably bring down prey with a wowhawk was by using it in a slingshot.
~ Terry Pratchett
There was something delightfully intimate about the relationship between predator and prey.
~ Nenia Campbell, Horrorscape
Remember, the early worm gets devoured by the early bird.
~ Jason Love
One does not judge the gazelle by the lions that attack it
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
I am not a good man. I am at the present, as a matter of record, rejoicing in one of the most evil reputations in all of England. But don't pity me, Regina, for I swear it is well deserved. But I am very wealthy, and I am a duke, a duke of all things. And you are a commoner. Moreover, much to my joy, you are a commoner with no connections at all. No resources. No protector. You are my natural meat. My natural prey. I want you.
~ Edith Layton
I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. And perhaps with better cause, for while a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a range pulled down by too many deer may fail for replacement in as many decades
~ Aldo Leopond
Holy shit. Talon truly was a Hunter. He went straight for the kill.
~ Alexandra Ivy
You know the trait of a crocodile, don't you? It never hunts outside water. It always goes into the water to catch its prey. It never goes in the villages or in the bush looking for food. It strikes at the appropriate time. So a good guerrilla leader strikes at the appropriate time.
~ Emmerson Mnangagwa
If ISIS is using social media to track me, that's a dream come true in my book. These guys are a bunch of bullies that just prey on the weak.
~ Dakota Meyer
With the Ending One-Ring Scams Act of 2019, I continue my fight against those that prey on the weak.
~ Jeff Van Drew
We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.
~ Nick Nolte
That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'
~ Alvah Bessie
This life form thing was breathtakingly beautiful. As he stared at it, he found himself being pulled out of the human world into a world where moral boundaries blur and finally dissolve completely. He was lost in wonder and admiration, even though he knew that he was the prey.
~ Richard Preston
Knowing almost nothing about books or serious magazines, intellectually he is a creature of the movie house, where he is an easy prey to fantasies concocted by Hollywood for the gullible. He
~ Richard Wright
Even up until the final moment of life, bat and moth are linked together forever, through time, and beyond. As a last-gasp evasive maneuver, a fleeing moth will sometimes stop its wingbeats in midflight, thereby ceasing to give off data to the bat's radar. But sometimes the bat will pause, too, so that the moth can't pick up any radar signals-the bat seeming to have disappeared-and for just the briefest of moments they will both hang there, suspended in eternity.
~ Rick Bass
With my sister perched on my arm, I walked to the elevator. A business man with a rolling suitcase was waiting by the doors. His eyes widened as he saw me. I must've looked pretty strange—a tall black kid in dirty, ragged Egyptian clothes, with a weird box tucked under one arm and a bird of prey perched on the other. "How's it going?" I said. "I'll take the stairs." He hurried off.
~ Rick Riordan
I am the hunter. I am always the hunter. You are the prey.
~ Rick Riordan
Bast crouched down and began making weird chittering noises. Uh-oh. She was imitating birds. I'd seen enough cats do this when they were stalking. Suddenly my own obituary flashed in my head: Carter Kane, 14, tragically died in Paris wen he was eaten by his sister's cat, Muffin.
~ Rick Riordan
At dusk the hunter took his prey, The lark his freedom never. All birds and men are sure to die But songs may live forever.
~ Ken Follett
The duck swallows the worm
~ Ken Follett
Christ comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one.
~ John Flavel
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
~ William Ralph Inge
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
~ William Ralph Inge