Beth Ostrosky Stern Quotes

Cats thrive when they can walk around and sleep in a patch of sunlight.

I can't live in a room without a window.

I have always loved a window, especially an open one.

A room is not a room without natural light.

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

I like sitting close to windows.

And I should mention the light which falls through the big windows this time of day italicizing everything it touches.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. I loved light ever, light in eye and brain No tapers mirrored in long palace floors, Nor dedicated depths of silent aisles, But just the common dusty wind-blown day That roofs earth's millions.

There is something to be said for waking up every morning and seeing the sun.

My nan used to look after me in the summer holidays and she had a cat with one eye. It used to walk into walls and tables. I used to think it was hilarious. It was a slapstick cat.

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.

Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.

When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.

It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was a broken blue bowl and a child was trying to keep honey in it.

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.

She comes to me when she wants to be fed. And after I feed her -- guess what -- she's off to wherever she wants to be in the house, until the next time she gets hungry. She's smart enough to know she can't feed herself. She's actually a very smart cat. She gets loved. She gets adoration. She gets petted. She gets fed. And she doesn't have to do anything for it, which is why I say this cat's taught me more about women, than anything my whole life.

It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.

All cats love a cushioned couch.

Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.

I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.

I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere!

Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which he pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason, and conscience, and love, are of more worth and dignity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few.

Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children?

Different cats don't like certain litter. They also don't like an unstable floor, no animal like's unstable floor. So if you put a thin piece of plastic down under a litter box and the cat walks on it and starts to slip, they don't like that. Any animal doesn't like an unstable floor.

How does light enter a house? If the windows are open. How does light enter a human? If the door of love is open.