Badgers Quotes

• Badgers know where their strength lies. Do you?

  Haddon W. Robinson

  Lying, Knows

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• I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.

  C. S. Lewis

  Beast, Don't Change

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.49, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right." —The law of Badger Lords

  Brian Jacques

  Law, Giving, Justice

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• Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Hate, Dinner, Wind In The Willows

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Kenneth Grahame (Illustrated)”, p.39, Delphi Classics

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• Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.

  Eddie Izzard

  Father, Spoons, Sin

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• The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Long, Important, Unseen

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Kenneth Grahame (Illustrated)”, p.39, Delphi Classics

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• You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn't know before, just talking about the Badgers.

  Steve Bartlett

  Talking, Two, People

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• He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels

  Henri Michaux

  Angel, Poetry, Annoying People

  Henri Michaux (1994). “Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984”, p.176, Univ of California Press

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• I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and thats really motivating.

  Katie Couric

  Fun, Secret, Having Fun

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• When you are about to badger the weak,
  Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Powerful, Men, Imagine

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• Governor Scott Walker didn't know who he was messing with when he picked a fight with the hard-working union folks of Wisconsin. He must have forgotten that Wisconsin is the Badger State. And badgers are scrappy little creatures. We may look cute, warm and fuzzy, but we have a fighting spirit.

  Gwen Moore

  Cute, Hard Work, Fighting

  "The Struggle Continues: The Wisconsin Labor Movement One Year Later" by Rep. Gwen Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2012.

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• One of the recurring philosophical questions is: 'Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one to hear?' Which says something about the nature of philosophers , because there is always someone in a forest. It may only be a badger, wondering what that cracking noise was, or a squirrel a bit puzzled by all the scenery going upwards, but someone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Philosophical, Squirrels

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.10, Random House

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• My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

  Nigel Dennis

  Shy, Firsts, Nocturnal

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• It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

  Tom Holt

  Beautiful, Girl, Workout

  "Expecting Someone Taller". Book by Tom Holt, 1987.

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• A nod is as good as a wink to a blind badger.

  Louise Rennison

  Blind

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• I'm running for Governor, and this Honey Badger is ready to fight.

  Scott Gessler

  Running, Fighting, Honey

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• The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.

  James Howell

  Giving, Teeth, Cracks

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• You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.

  Terry Pratchett

  Hands, Stuck Up, Abstract

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• Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Flower, Garden, Squirrels

  Dodie Smith, Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Daughter: I Capture the Castle & The Secret Garden”, p.419, Random House

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• I'm more lopsided than a one legged badger!" Graypaw stopped his careful stalking to wander comically across the clearing "I will have to settle for hunting stupid mice I shall just wander up to them, and sit on them until they surrender!

  Erin Hunter

  Stupid, Hunting, Surrender

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• Don't badger people without children into admitting the secret desire for children you're sure they have to you! Don't badger anyone! Leave the badgering to the badgers.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Children, People, Secret

  "Do It for the Kids". Live Chat, www.slate.com. December 21, 2015.

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• The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be "free" because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free.

  Julian Assange

  Political Will, Bird, West

  "Julian Assange answers your questions". Q&A, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2010.

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• Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden-in all the places.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Flower, Animal, Garden

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.143, Penguin

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• I therefore invite you all," Mr Fox went on, 'to stay here with me for ever.' For ever!' they cried. 'My goodness! How marvellous!' And Rabbit said to Mrs Rabbit, 'My dear, just think! We're never going to be shot again in our lives!' We will make,' said Mr Fox, 'a little underground village, with streets and houses on each side - seperate houses for Badgers and Moles and Rabbits and Weasels and Foxes. And every day I will go shopping for you all. And every day we will eat like kings.' The cheering that followed this speech went on for many minutes.

  Roald Dahl

  Kings, Cheer, Thinking

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• It’s probably the most unpopular policy I’m responsible for. I know it is very unpopular, culling badgers. But I believe it is the right thing to do. You have to make choices as a politician. Sometimes it means doing something you know people don’t like.

  David Cameron

  Believe, Mean, People

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