A kitten is, in the animal world, what a rosebud is in the garden.
––– Robert Sowthey (English Poet of the Romantic School)

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.
― Albert Schweitzer (Alsatian Nobel-prize-winning polymath)

There’s a little white cat out here (in California––referring to Chet Baker) who’s going to give you boys a lot of trouble.
––– Charlie Parker, talking to Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis