Robin McKinley Quotes

In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.

I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

Love can tame the wildest.

Some of the wildest men make the best pets.

I just don't believe people can tame animals.

For I am he am born to tame you, Kate; and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates.

When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life with the big cats.

I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.

Any time you're working in the world of taming animals, you're going to get hurt. But it's a rush that we get.

I'm not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they're really cute obviously. They are both wild and domestic at the same time.

You've got to keep a dog with you at all times. A dog cannot roam. You've got to keep him in the house with you. You can't have a wild dog and expect days to go good.

We must tame these fellows and make them useful to us.

I will put rings in the noses of these hogs.

I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.

When you name a beast, sometimes it makes it less bestial.

I want to get a wolf and an eagle.

No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame

A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

Cats are unpredictable because they're wild and domestic at the same time. Watching a cat's behavior is like a small window into the wild.

Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.

You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.

Hear and attend and listen; for this is what befell and be-happened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild -as wild as wild could be - and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself and all places were alike to him

You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.

What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man a whip and a chair? The lion has been taught to forget what it is.