Quotes About Rattlesnakes

#1. And why did I think that the notorious and often fatal obstacles that the pioneers faced - mountain passes strewn with lava rock, hellacious winds and dust storms, rattlesnakes, and descents so steep that the wagons could only be lowered by ropes - would miraculously vanish from the trail for me?

Rinker Buck

#2. Crikey means gee whiz, wow! Crikey, mate. You're far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building.

Steve Irwin

#3. I asked Joe if he hated Ivy and Bucky. He said, "That would make as much sense as hating a rattlesnake. You don't hate rattlesnakes; you avoid them.

Maria Semple

#4. The worst things I knows of is rattlesnakes and some kinds o' people. And a rattlesnake minds his own matters if he ain't bothered. A man's got a right to kill ary thing, snake or man, comes messin' up with him.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#5. We're all terrified by rattlesnakes, but the spider we brush off our sleeve with hardly a thought is far more likely to hurt us.

Greg Iles

#6. We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.

Rebecca Lim

#7. I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

Alan Alda

#8. He told Trout about people he'd heard of in the area who grabbed live copperheads and rattlesnakes during church services, to show how much they believed that Jesus would protect them.
"Takes all kinds of people to make up a world," said Trout.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. Refrigerators are good for keeping homemade moonshine less gross. Freezers are good for keeping rattlesnakes less angry. Garages are good to hide in when your wife finds either.

Jenny Lawson

#10. My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.

Jim Fowler

#11. Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.

Louis Sachar

#12. Avoid Arguments Like Rattlesnakes And Earthquakes

Dale Carnegie

#13. People say if you face your worst fear, the rest is easy, but those are people who are afraid of rattlesnakes or enclosed spaces, not of themselves and the horrible things they've done.

Alice Hoffman

#14. Part of her soul ... gloried in the sheer bodacious unnaturalness of it. Putting a great blue-green water park smack down in the red desert complete with cactus, trading posts, genuine Navajo Indians, and five kinds of rattlesnakes was theater of the absurd at its most outrageous.

Nevada Barr

#15. A wolf will growl to warn you that it's angry and a bull will paw the ground before charging. Rattlesnakes rattle, cats moan and hiss, and hyenas grunt and cackle. But a man will smile right in your face as he drives a knife into your heart.

Rachel Vincent

#16. Well if this be order
give me a wheelbarruh of chaos
and a pop bottle full of shook up rattlesnakes

Bob Henry Baber

#17. I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for 'Serena.'

Ron Rash

#18. I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

Elizabeth Moon

#19. Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike ... If it can it will get out of the way, and only coils up in its attitude of defence when it believes that it is actually menaced.

Theodore Roosevelt

#20. If your gonna play with rattlesnakes, you better know what rattlesnakes do.

Smokey Yunick

#21. A prickle of porcupines, a cackle of hyenas, a pounce of cats, a slither of snakes. But it's a nest of vipers, a quiver of cobras, and a rhumba of rattlesnakes. They also have a parliament of owls and a congress of baboons, which I find insulting to baboons myself.

Abigail Roux

#22. The only reason, for example, that you are not a rattlesnake is that your mother and father weren't rattlesnakes. You deserve very little credit for being what you are

Dale Carnegie

#23. Lots of people leave Pennsylvania limping and bruised. The state also has what are reputed to be the meanest rattlesnakes anywhere along the trail,

Bill Bryson

#24. The things we do to eat! Running from scorpions the size of small dogs, dodging 10 foot long rattlesnakes and squashing monster spiders - all in a days work

Gail Saunders-Smith

#25. If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.

William S. Burroughs

#26. The righteousness of men should be treated with the same respect that one would accord to a rattlesnake. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#27. Everybody knew that you should never provoke a rattlesnake, much less tie it into a bow. But that didn't stop Judd. What did stop him was the rattlesnake.

Demetri Martin

#28. I ran across a rattlesnake once in New Mexico, you know what I did with it, chopped its head off and we ate it.

Joe Teti

#29. The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.

Ross Macdonald

#30. I don't know about you, but rattlesnake sounds pretty damn good right now.

Joe Teti

#31. RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans".

Ambrose Bierce