Quotes About Rodents

#1. Hamsters. We have other names for them; rats, weasels, rodents, but with their fine, golden fur, round faces and whiskers, what they most look like are hamsters.

Craig Alanson

#2. 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

#3. Redford had read somewhere that cats brought their owners dead birds, rodents, and their own toys because they were trying to teach the stupid humans how to hunt, like they did with their own kittens. From the amount of toys Knievel had brought to him, the cat thought he was absolutely useless.

Robin Saxon

#4. A little
bunny or some kind of ferret was probably
there too, and bore witness as only rodents can.

John Ashbery

#5. But I know rodents. Also, I believe I was a rodent, but that was only for a little while - I don't remember it clearly and I don't want to discuss it. I think I can handle a possum

Cassandra Clare

#6. Cats, I decided, had certain advantages over men. There were loyal without being sycophantic, independent without being absent, and affectionate without being rapacious. That they choke up balls of fur and leave dead rodents at my feet is unfortunate. But it is not grounds for divorce.

Betsy Tobin

#7. I can't cohabitate with rodents." She pauses. That's a lie. I've lived with Loren for nine months, but I draw the line right here.

Krista Ritchie

#8. Although you should respect venomous snakes and approach them with caution, most snakes you encounter in an urban environment are harmless and beneficial because they eat insects, mice and other rodents.

Robert Pierce

#9. Let's find someplace where there aren't any dead people, insects, or rodents. For that matter, someplace that's big enough to accommodate both of us without crimping any internal organs. (Shahara)
Picky, picky, picky. (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. If you study dietary saturated fatty acids under conditions where carbohydrate is high or, more important, if your study effects in rodents where plasma fat better correlates with dietary fat, then you will confuse plasma fat with dietary fat.

Richard David Feinman

#11. We can leave the rat race to rodents... but I suspect that even they wouldn't like it

Adriano Bulla

#12. Tonight I've been dealing with a known killer, a male whore, a scam artist and now I've graduated to talking to a mayor. Who's next? The President of the National Association of Rodents?

V. Alexander

#13. Win and you are the superior being in all the universe; lose, and may the fleas of a million rodents, infect your every orifice.

David Feherty

#14. In middle school, I was really into the 'Redwall' series, about anthropomorphic rodents in medieval times. I had a bowl cut, too, if you need the full imagery.

Tyler Oakley

#15. 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

#16. When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.

Pliny The Elder

#17. Owing to the high infant mortality of the times, estimated at one or two in three, the investment of love in a young child may have been so unrewarding that by some ruse of nature, as when overcrowded rodents in captivity will not breed, it was suppressed.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#18. Masson disliked and respected the ferocious little rodents, for he knew the danger that lurked in their flashing, needle-sharp fangs;

H.P. Lovecraft

#19. Have you ever noticed that people look like either rodents or birds? And you can classify them that way, like, I definitely have more of a rodent face, but you look like a penguin.

Jesse Andrews

#20. He had a Cro-Magnon forehead, a weak jaw, sagging jowls. Chunks of his cheeks looked like they had been bitten away by rodents. He could have been smiling and looked like a gargoyle.

S.M. Reine

#21. Rats. Rats, mice, and rodents.

Jean Ferris

#22. Comen out, leetle rodents," the human called in a language that the companions could not understand. The wizard reiterated the request in another tongue, then in drow, and then in two more unknown tongues, and then in svirfneblin. He continued on for many minutes,

R.A. Salvatore

#23. Opening the fridge door, I found a rat eating the cheese. My dealings with rodents, particularly those tagged verminous, have been few, but generally the pattern has been one of man, the boss, the caretaker of creation, the namer, appearing and the lower orders hitting the road.

Tibor Fischer

#24. Private Eye continued to report that the stench in the Houses of Parliament was just as strong as it had been on the day when the birds flew away and the rodents fled.

Stephen Vizinczey

#25. Behind every wall and every mirror and every vent, I hear sounds: breathing, rustling, footsteps, and murmurs. I try to tell myself it's just mice making their nests behind the barriers, but since when do rodents whisper?

A.G. Howard

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

Anthony Storr

#27. I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore.

Anthony Bourdain

#28. 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

#29. Figure 14: Garter snakes hunt during the day and sleep at night in common dens with fellow garters. They eat anything they can overpower, including small rodents, birds, earthworms, and frogs.

Janet Evans

#30. Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes.

Julian Clary

#31. The fact that he'd been here only two minutes and already had a girl hurling herself onto his bed would have been thrilling, except that of course she was fleeing infernal rodents.

Cassandra Clare

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

Joan Jett

#33. I don't like rats any more than the next bloke, but they ain't wicked and cruel like people can be. They're just ratty in their habits.

Philip Pullman

#34. Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel.
Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel brain" are given over to one thought: food.
The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: I wonder what there is to eat.

Kate DiCamillo

#35. Your father wasn't a positive influence on you, was he? (Simone) Being the god of nightmares, he wasn't a warm fuzzy bunny. Unless you count Happy Bunny. Amazingly the two of them have a lot in common ... And I have to say that I've developed a fondness for that pissy rodent. (Xypher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#36. But he might have had a bang on the head!" said Joan. "Poor little boy, he thinks he was a rat!"
"Hmm," said the receptionist, and wrote rodent delusion on a pink slip of paper.

Philip Pullman

#37. Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.

Harriet Harman

#38. Dolorita Hunsickle says that the chipmunks tell your fortune if you catch them but I never did. She says a chipmunk told her she would grow up to be a famous ballerina and that she would die of consumption unloved in a boardinghouse in Prague.

Neil Gaiman

#39. You mean he came to your school? The scandalous rodent-loaf!

Laini Taylor