Predator and Prey Quotes

Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn't be relied on to guard henhouses.

One must be a fox to recognize traps and a lion to frighten wolves

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

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

You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.

Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony and slaughter, ruled over by chance, merciless, planless, endless.

This world's divided into two kinds of people: the hunter and the hunted. Luckily I'm the hunter. Nothing can change that.

Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.

Let's leave one alive so that it can be lonely.

Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe.

Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.

It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.

The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.

Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.

The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralize about it. He did not even think the law; he merely lived the law without thinking about it at all.

We are the hunters---and we are also the bait.

In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.

When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when you get hunted - that's different. Somepin happens to you. You ain't strong: maybe you're fierce, but you ain't strong." - Muley

Fishing... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.

I often do that with characters, going back to my bloody drama-school days, in terms of equating them with creatures. And it's very much there as a theme of all the seasons of 'Fargo' as well: the predator and the prey.

The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain.

Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey