Quotes About Claws

These are the seductive voices of the night; the Sirens, too, sang that way. It would be doing them an injustice to think that they wanted to seduce; they knew they had claws and sterile wombs, and they lamented this aloud. They could not help it if their laments sounded so beautiful.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

He chuckled, shaking his head. Man, you hunters. I break a pencil and there's hell to pay. I can see how that's deeply unfair, Chip. Especially if that pencil should try to kill you with it teeth and claws, or launch its brood of a thousand deadly paper clips against you.

I wish I had claws, just because how cool would that be?

Varjak Paw,' said Elyza Scratch, unsheathing her claws, 'the way Razor fooled Luger was genius, and I take back everything I said.

Kindness only goes so far, and then it's time to show your claws.

Jealousy is a terrible sine and a vicious companion: an animal that eats and claws and gives no quarter. - Pg. 167

She cast a glance at Sayeh that raked Sayeh like a tiger's claws and sketched a plausible courtesy before Anuraja. It wasn't much of a courtesy.

At night the grackle Love will start To shriek and shrill, Nor will he once be still Till he has wide awake the backward heart. So selfish Love, Go hush; Feathers and claws take off Or seek some bush.

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 claws.

I named my kitten Rose — fur soft as a petal, claws sharper than thorns.

Eagles rarely fail to catch their prey. They usually kill it quickly by breaking its neck with their powerful claws.

If you rile a tiger, he's going to show his claws.

He possessed the tact of becoming instantly intimate with women without giving rise to any fear of impertinence. He had about him somewhat of the propensities of a tame cat. It seemed quite natural that he should be petted, caressed, and treated with familiar good nature, and that in return he should purr, and be sleek and graceful, and above all never show his claws. Like other tame cats, however, he had his claws, and sometimes made them dangerous.

Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.

Blessed are the weak who think they are good because they have no claws.

Now, Pussy, be patient. You know quite well it is all for your good. You cannot be comfortable with all those sparks in you; and, indeed, I am charitably disposed to believe (here he became very pompous) that they are the cause of all your bad temper; so we must have them all out, every one; else we shall be reduced to the painful necessity of cutting your claws, and pulling out your eye-teeth. Quiet! Pussy, quiet!

She made the rather horrifying discovery that the slim fingers of a lady could curl into claws, and quickly straightened them.

and claws of creeping foxes.

We don't all dream of being a warrior. We're healers, not fighters, and we managed to live in peace before you arrived. Not every argument needs to be settled with claws.

All warriors are nervous before battle—if not for themselves, then for their denmates and their whole Clan. It makes their senses sharper and their claws fiercer, and it gives them hunger for victory.

You're all wet and muddy!" Briarlight exclaimed. Yeah, and claws are sharp! Anything else obvious you want to point out?

Goosefeather padded to a smooth silver birch and started tearing off strips of the bark with deft claws.

We've got you now, kittypet!