madison and jackson
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A memorial for my beloved cats, Madison and Jackson.TRANSCRIPT
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Jackson April 15, 1993
to
August 4, 2011
Madison April 15, 1993
to
July 13, 2010
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Kittens! Kittens!
Kittens kittens everywhere
Kittens chewing on my hair
Kittens climbing up my jeans
Kittens hanging from the screens
There's a kitten on each shoulder
Will they do this when they're older?
Kittens fighting on the chairs
Kittens tumbling down the stairs
There's a kitten on my head
There's a kitten in the bread!
There's a kitten in my shoe
I don't believe we just have two!
— William Wordsworth
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The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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“A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.”
— William Lyon Phelps
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"Two cats can live as
cheaply as one, and
their owner has twice
as much fun.“
— Lloyd Alexander
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“There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.”
— Wesley Bates
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"Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to
you later."
— Mary Bly
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“Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in
their minds than we are aware of.“
— Sir Walter Scott
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“A meow massages the heart.”
— Stuart McMillan
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“How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in
heaven.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
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“With the qualities of cleanliness,
affection, patience, dignity, and
courage that cats have, how
many of us, I ask you, would be
capable of becoming cats?”
— Fernand Mery
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"What greater gift than the
love of a cat?“
— Charles Dickens
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“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
— Christopher Hitchens
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"Thousands of years ago,
cats were worshipped as
gods. Cats have never
forgotten this.“
— Anonymous
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“Everything I know I learned from my cat:
When you're hungry, eat. When you're tired,
nap in a sunbeam.”
— Gary Smith
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"A cat has absolute
emotional honesty:
human beings, for one
reason or another,
may hide their
feelings, but a cat
does not.” — Ernest Hemingway
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"You can not look at a sleeping cat
and feel tense.“
— Jane Pauley
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“No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no
amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your
couch.”
— Leo Dworken
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"You can tell your cat anything and he'll still
love you. If you lose your job or your best friend,
your cat will think no less of you.“
— Helen Powers
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“Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.”
— George F. Will
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“ If man could be crossed
with the cat it would
improve the man, but it
would deteriorate the
cat."
— Mark Twain
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"People that hate cats
will come back as mice
in their next life.“
— Faith Resnick
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"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”
— Albert Schweitzer
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“Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in
about six days, take a look around, then close them again
for the better part of their lives.”
— Stephen Baker
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“The mathematical
probability of a common cat
doing exactly as it pleases is
the one scientific absolute in
the world."
— Lynn M. Osband
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"Who can believe that there is no
soul behind those luminous eyes!”
— Theophile Gautier
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“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
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“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could
walk on a cloud without coming through.”
— Jules Verne