Rodents Quotes

• A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

  Umberto Eco

  Inspirational, Funny, War

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

  Anthony Storr

  Humanity, Members, Certain

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• Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes

  Julian Clary

  Personality, Stakes, Vacant

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• The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything

  E. B. White

  Kindness, Feelings, Rats

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.170, Cornell University Press

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• When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.

  Pliny the Elder

  Latin, Littles, Collapse

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• You can’t protect yourself. No matter how safe you think you are. No matter how much precaution you take, the rodents always find a way in.’ (Kiara)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Safe, Matter

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Night”, p.16, Macmillan

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• A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Hands, Suffering

  Umberto Eco (1994). “The Name of the Rose”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

  Joan Jett

  Insects, Living Things, Sustaining

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• You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet could be running loose in your pants.

  Bill Watterson

  Running, Feet, Pants

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• I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Dream, Criticism, Goya

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• A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.

  Terry Pratchett

  Inspirational, Winning, Thinking

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• Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.

  Preston Manning

  Country, Canada, Relentless

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• Rats. Rats, mice, and rodents.

  Jean Ferris

  Rats, Mice

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• The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

  Margaret Halsey

  Race, Definitions, Rats

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fighting, Thinking, World

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents: (Discworld Novel 28)”, p.272, Random House

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• But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Stories, Rats

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents: (Discworld Novel 28)”, p.1, Random House

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• The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes.

  Terry Pratchett

  Adventure, Long, Missing

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• I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person.

  Ethan Embry

  Character, Play, Normal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The mole rat is the only rodent born without a fur coat. With a good lawyer, someone would pay for that little oversight.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, God, Humorous

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• Don't "pole-vault over mouse truds" - by the time you've discussed the many options available to you, the problem itself could have been long behind you had you simply disposed of those rodent droppings with a simple tissue and dumped them into the garbage!

  Wayne Dyer

  Simple, Long, Tissues

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• I'm not a big-game hunter. I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmints, if you will.

  Mitt Romney

  Games, Rabbits, Hunters

  "Has Romney been hunting since 2008 'small varmints' gaffe?" by Christine Delargy, www.cbsnews.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dog, Cat, Psychics

  William S Burroughs (2012). “The Cat Inside”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has provided us, in the latter animals, with an almost complete series of gradations from brains little higher than that of a Rodent, to brains little lower than that of Man.

  Thomas Huxley

  Animal, Men, Brain

  Thomas H. Huxley (2013). “Man's Place in Nature”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it's own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.

  June Callwood

  Humorous, Fall, Eagles

  June Callwood (1981). “Portrait of Canada”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the limo to perform an illegal sex act on himself. To engage in oral congress with various rodents and birds. He articulated his own proposal that all persons of Negro blood return to their native continent. He expressed his sincere belief in the position the limo driver's soul would occupy in the afterlife. He finished by saying that he believed he had met the limodriver's mother in a New Orleans house of prostitution.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Sex, Cutting

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