Hunting Instinct Quotes

The wolf asketh not how many the sheep may be.

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It's not an intellectual thing. It's almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

Men are like lions. We hunt.

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.

Before I was the hunter. Now I'm the hunted.

The cat is a dilettante in fur.

The cat does not negotiate with the mouse.

God created man and He created the world for him to live in and I reckon He created the kind of world He would have wanted to live in if He had been a man--the ground to walk on, the big woods, the trees and the water, and the game to live in it. And maybe He didn't put the desire to hunt and kill game in man but I reckon He knew it was going to be there, that man was going to teach it to himself, since he wasn't quite God himself yet.

Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.

For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.

We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created.

We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.

As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented.

A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something.

I view cats as more like wild animals. We feed it, but a lot of times it's not eating the food because it's murdering other animals outside and eating their meat.

I am a born hunter, like my father, my grandfather, and every man of my family before them.

I am an animal, my teeth are sharp and my mouth is full, and the passion is strong.

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.

The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth as oiled silk, "who have suggested that the tendency of a cat to play with its prey is a merciful one - after all, it permits the occasional funny little running snack to escape, from time to time. How often does your dinner get to escape?

A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.

I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.

When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.

Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.

Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.