Wild Things Quotes

55 quotes by 36 authors

For most of the wild things on earth, the future must depend on the conscience of mankind. — Archie Carr
Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there. Assemble yourself with wild things, with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam. Let… — Jewel
...short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful… — Theodore Roosevelt
It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people,… — Sam Kinison
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for… — D. H. Lawrence
spring is super in the supermarkets and the strawberries prance and glow never mind that they're all kinda tart and tasteless as strawberries go meanwhile… — Ani DiFranco
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and… — Wendell Berry
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. — Aldo Leopold
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremostâ€”not an… — David Wroblewski
What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged?… — Libba Bray
And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all. — Maurice Sendak
Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things. — Maurice Sendak
Our eyelashes brushed like they would weave together by themselves, turning us into one wild thing. I say, â€œI think I missed you before I… — Francesca Lia Block
And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws. — Maurice Sendak
Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree,… — Patrick Rothfuss
it was love, of course, though I didn't know it then and Finn was both its subject and object. He accepted love instinctively, without responsibility… — Meg Rosoff
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself — D. H. Lawrence
You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that… — Truman Capote
Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my childrenâ€™s letters â€”… — Maurice Sendak
You canâ€™t give your heart to a wild thing. — Truman Capote

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