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Quotes About Claw

It was as if the thing that was N'Kari was merely a finger-puppet on the end of a claw that had been poked through the walls of reality by some much greater being.
~ William King
As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claw.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
There's a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn't just inside our walls-it was inside my skin. I was willing to claw, scratch, and bleed until I'd found it.
~ Ally Carter
Harry Yutu. His last name is Eskimo for 'The Claw.
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
Never had a larger committee been convened to make a decision about the purchase of mustard powder and the replacement of a claw hammer whose handle had split from age and misuse.
~ Amy Stewart
There was a time when love was the law. There was a time for the tooth and the claw, Last rites given, no holds barred. Heaven express on my credit card.
~ Jethro Tull
In my travels, which have been wider than ever man yet accomplished, I have seen many, many wild beasts of Arabia and India; but this beast, that is commonly called a Tyrant, I know not how many heads it has, nor if it be crooked of claw, and armed with horrible fangs.
~ Apollonius of Tyana
You have to incapacitate the women first. Because women are the fighters. They will go claw and teeth to protect their families.
~ Lisa Unger
Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free— The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn are we. This is the hour of pride and power, Talon and tush and claw. Oh, hear the call!—Good hunting all That keep the Jungle Law!
~ Rudyard Kipling
Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free— The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn are we. This is the hour of pride and power, Talon and tusk and claw. Oh, hear the call!--Good hunting all That keep the Jungle Law!
~ Rudyard Kipling
Now Rann, the Kite, brings home the night That Mang, the Bat, sets free— The herds are shut in byre and hut, For loosed till dawn are we. This is the hour of pride and power, Talon and tush and claw. Oh, hear the call! —Good hunting all That keep the Jungle Law! Night-Song in the Jungle. Mowgli's Brothers
~ Rudyard Kipling
Ex ungue leonem [From his claw one can tell a lion].
~ Anonymous: Latin
And as they turned onto the M40 motorway at Junction 9, near Bicester, not one of them even noticed the oversized helicopter that had suddenly appeared in the sky about a mile behind, like some strange, primeval monster. They didn't see how almost at once, it began to swoop down towards them, trailing something that looked, at least from a distance, like a huge claw…
~ Anthony Horowitz
La griffe is the pattern of one's walk around the city on a shopping day. Strictly speaking, it means "claw," or the mark made by talons scratching a tree, but in practice it's one's signature, the mark that signifies ownership of a territory.
~ John Baxter
When I think back on it, it was as if I had the Claw already, more than a year before I got it. I can't describe how he looked when he rolled his eye up to see me. He touched my heart. I never revived an animal when I had the Claw, but then I never tried. When I was among them, I was usually wishing I could kill one, because I wanted something to eat. Now I'm no longer sure that killing animals to eat is something we are meant to do.
~ Gene Wolfe
He reached out with one bird-claw hand. He closed it around my wrist and I could feel the hot cancer that was loose and raving through his body, eating anything and everything left that was still good to eat.
~ Stephen King
In rock and pool, in air and light on water, through fall of prey and cry of kit, through scrape of claw and beat of blood, we hear you.
~ Erin Hunter
Because I was afraid she would claw my ears off if I forbade her from going
~ Erin Hunter
Because I was afraid she would claw my ears off if I forbade her from going," Bramblestar responded drily. "And I would have," Sandstorm muttered.
~ Erin Hunter
The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree.
~ Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.
~ George Eliot
So much of my intention with songs is to voice a continual dissatisfaction, or at least to claw my way out of it.
~ Carrie Brownstein
Years and years ago, I was obsessed with these Pamela Love necklaces, and they had a claw, like an eagle claw, which was silver. Then I found one on this random website. I thought it was a fake claw, and when it arrived, it was a real one, cut off from the animal! It came to my house, and it was disgusting; it was a chicken claw or something.
~ Chiara Ferragni
I'm starving. I haven't had anything to eat since I stole a bear claw from your kitchen this morning. You didn't steal it. All my bear claws are yours.
~ Ilona Andrews