Claws Quotes

183 quotes by 157 authors

the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever — Charles Bukowski
Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. — Victor Hugo
How does fear become so powerful? We canâ€™t see it. We canâ€™t touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control… — Gena Showalter
This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail. — Beatrix Potter
Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had… — Ayn Rand
Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from. — Glen Duncan
I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep. — Carl Sandburg
How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to… — Lewis Carroll
I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise… — Khaled Hosseini
love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a… — Kurt Vonnegut
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears. — Brian Jacques
As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found God, but he… — Henry Miller
It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws. — Stephen Crane
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… — Elizabeth Kostova
Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start… — Margaret Atwood
History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor. — Salman Rushdie
No human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitomy of chaos and anarchy, a pigeon… — Patrick SÃ¼skind
Whoa. Fangs. She had fangs. She leaned in, prodded them a little. Eating with those puppies was going to take some getting used to, she… — J R Ward
The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the… — Frank Peretti

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