Claws Quotes
183 quotes by 157 authors
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Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can’t predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.
— Holly Robinson Peete
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The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of our…
— Tom DeLay
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To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates that we have not evolved…
— Paul Watson
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I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.
— William Shakespeare
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These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly slower on foot…
— E. O. Wilson
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The lower animals, on the other hand, must have their bodily structure modified in order to survive under greatly changed conditions. They must be rendered…
— Charles Darwin
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People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as heroin or crack cocaine...
— Al Gore
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
— Baruch Spinoza
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The danger that we have right now are people who get the same information as I do and, therefore, think they'll reach the same conclusions…
— Jim Cramer
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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a…
— Victor Hugo
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
— William Golding
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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
— Alice Hoffman
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Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a…
— Lynn Margulis
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I have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach it's really a sign of…
— Erik Naggum
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It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they betray of the…
— Robley Wilson
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If you caught your kid raising cats in tiny boxes, forcing them to live in their own feces without clean air or sunlight, pulling their…
— Dan Piraro
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Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.
— Thomas Tusser
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and…
— Al McGuire
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I stand above the tree level I am a tree I catch wind storm breaths My branches claw I drink sky It stretches me I…
— Marie Ponsot
Who Wrote These Claws Quotes
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