Rats Quotes - Page 17

• Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write.

  Suzanne Collins

  Writing, Frustration, Gregor The Overlander

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.133, Scholastic Inc.

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• There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Fun, Holiday, Kids

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.70, Macmillan

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• Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature.

  John Steinbeck

  Art, Father, Boys

  John Steinbeck (2001). “Novels, 1942-1952”

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• There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When I was tiny we would by a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations. It seems like my parents gave up the magic when I figured out the Santa lie. Maybe I shouldn't have told them I knew where the presents really came from. It broke their hearts.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Christmas, Fun, Real

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• Mice and any rodentia. Guinea pigs. Even rabbits, I can't stand. Rabbits are cousins to rats. It's a class thing. If you had to grow up with rats scampering in your backyard, because the city services were cut in half and the population in your neighborhood doubled, then that also is going to mean that the flora and fauna are going to grow as well. So that's a part of it. That's why I can't go to Hindu countries where they respect rats and mice, and I can't go camping.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Country, Cousin, Growing Up

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• We do not abandon ship. I say, as corny as it may sound, through the strength and spirit and fire and dare and gamble of a few men in a few ways we can save the carcass of humanity from drowning. No light goes out until it goes out. Let's fight as men, not rats. Period. No further addition.

  Charles Bukowski

  Fighting, Men, Fire

  Source: bukowski.net

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• It's not about being a sex prostitute. It's about this power play in the war of the sexes. It's a rat race, like, "I'm in charge," "No, I'm in charge."

  Lykke Li

  Sex, War, Race

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was a gym rat and I always thought that was a part of my success.

  Andre Reed

  Gym Rats, Gym

  Source: www.nfl.com

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• Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.

  Gene Perret

  Teacher, Retirement, Nice

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• We could get kinky and see how bats and rats make love, he suggested in a whisper, warm breath against her neck. You are a sick man, Jacques. Very, very sick.

  Christine Feehan

  Men, Sick, Making Love

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• To get rid of villains and knaves, it is necessary to give them a way out. If you don't give them any leeway at all, they will be like trapped rats. If every way out is closed to them, they will chew up everything good.

  Zicheng Hong

  Giving, Taoism, Knaves

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• Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

  Michael Shermer

  Prayer, Religion, Labs

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• This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie story with rats and marrow and burning curses. The sentences build a fence around her, a Times Roman 10-point barricade, to keep the thorny voices in her head from getting too close.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Book, Fall

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.32, Penguin

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• Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.

  Rob Sheffield

  Hair, Tails, Four

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• What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Psychology, Scales, Involved

  Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

  Val Kilmer

  Criminals, Citizens, Prison

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• For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe.

  Tim O'Brien

  Thinking, Squares, Roots

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

  Suge Knight

  Ghetto

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• Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

  Johann Lamont

  School, Race, Exam

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• Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Kids, Wind

  "Sir Terry Pratchett: hallucinating gently for a living". Interview with Corinne Podger, www.abc.net.au. April 30, 2011.

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• I'm taking my rats. Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They're so cute.

  Pink

  Cute, Thelma And Louise, My Friends

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• A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit!

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Squirrels, Carrie

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• When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Pain, Animal

  "Washingtonian" Magazine, August 1, 1986.

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• Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you're gonna come to the conclusion that you're a rat.

  Alan Moore

  Running, Shapes, Way

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• In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

  John Major

  Running, Block, Community

  "Major goes back to the old values" by Patrick Wintour and Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 1993.

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