But the wild things cried, Oh please don’t go - we’ll eat you up - we love you so!And Max said, No!The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye. - Maurice Sendak
Even your sweetest character has claws, no matter how well they may be retracted and hidden (hidden even from herself). - Eric Maisel Ph.D.
She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment. - Émile Zola
I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep. - Carl Sandburg
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws. - Baruch Spinoza
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws. - Jim Morrison
Life turns, and returns death. Where death digs its claws into the grave only to pull out life, as a baby from a womb; and the recycle of air, the recycle of struggles that never achieve satisfaction, in a constant turning world, of an untuned universe. - Anthony Liccione
I don't want to be a kitten anymore. Give me my honorary claws so I can become a lion. - Kayla Krantz