13 quotes found
Poet · Australian · 1948
Australian poet (born 1948)
“A cat is always on the wrong side of any door.”
“One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.”
“When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?”
“Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.”
“The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.”
“A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out compl...”
“Loss leaves us empty- but learn not to close your heart and mind to grief. Allow life to replinish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible- but new”
“Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.”
“Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.”
“For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.”
“A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.”
“Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.”
