Kathi Appelt Quotes

Westminster is a jungle - and the hunter can always smell fear on its prey.

These are the animals that are the reason why you don't see old animals in the wild. You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.

When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts of horns similar to his own, and have therefore been formed for the purpose of combating other stags for the exclusive possession of the females; who are observed, like the ladies in the times of chivalry, to attend to the car of the victor... The final cause of this contest amongst the males seems to be, that the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved.

The wolf asketh not how many the sheep may be.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice.

I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because the water is cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know that?

Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.

Dogs will eat till they die. Cats will leave food in the dish, incomprehensible to a dog.

...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.

You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.

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.

Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay.

Bast crouched down and began making weird chittering noises. Uh-oh. She was imitating birds. I'd seen enough cats do this when they were stalking. Suddenly my own obituary flashed in my head: Carter Kane, 14, tragically died in Paris wen he was eaten by his sister's cat, Muffin.

Every cat knows some things need to be buried.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

Fighting should be left to dogs and cats and chickens, who can't reason.

I do not know what the cat can have eaten. Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have I fed it to the cat, at the cat's insistence, but the cat has thrown it up on the rug, and someone has tracked it all over onto the other rug. I do not know why cats are such habitual vomiters. They do not seem to enjoy it, judging by the sounds they make while they are doing it. It's their nature. A dog is going to bark. A cat is going to vomit.

The cat does not negotiate with the mouse.

Cats do not abide by the laws of nature.

Dogs own space and cats own time.

Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.

Look, Chief, you can't go off half-cocked looking for vengeance against a fish. That shark isn't evil. It's not a murderer. It's just obeying its own instincts. Trying to get retribution against a fish is crazy.

You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.