Top 100 Squirrel Quotes
#1. When one's dead, one's dead ... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?
Tove Jansson
#2. But this is something new!' said Mrs. Munt, who collected new ideas as a squirrel collects nuts, and was especially attracted by those that are portable.
E. M. Forster
#3. Why waste your final hours racing about your cage denying you're a squirrel?
Ray Bradbury
#4. One tax dodge often used by multi-national companies is to squirrel their earnings abroad in foreign subsidiaries located in countries where taxes are lower.
Robert Reich
#5. Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
Zadie Smith
#6. My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.
Beth Ditto
#7. Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Millicent Fenwick
#8. Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.
Jay Griffiths
#9. Although her book did include compelling recipes for scrapple, ox cheek, and baked calf's head and tips for the preparation of raccoon, possum, snipe, plovers, and blackbirds (for blackbird pie) and "how to broil, fricassee, stew or fry a squirrel," it was much more than just a cookbook.
Erik Larson
#10. The flesh is sweeter, where the creature has some chance for its life; for that reason, I always use a single ball, even if it be at a bird or a squirrel; besides, it saves lead, for, when a body knows how to shoot, one piece of lead is enough for all, except hard-lived animals.
James F. Cooper
#11. First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb ... we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.
Truman Capote
#12. Raven sighed and looked up the tree. "Maybe it's asleep," he murmured.
Myche grinned. "Want me to take a look?"
Raven blinked. "What?"
His friend gave a mock-suffering sigh. "I'm a squirrel. I know trees.
Mari Evers
#13. Is he all right?" Jane asked.
"Oh, sure, probably losing a fight against a squirrel," Angus said.
"Or his shadow ...
Michelle M. Pillow
#14. I killed a squirrel once with a car. Twice with a tennis racket.
Anthony Jeselnik
#15. That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.
Herman Melville
#16. ...the state of perfection is an elusive goal; demanding something so obscure as almost unattainable and can become a compulsive, crazy making squirrel-on-a-wheel way of living.
David W. Earle
#17. Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
Nazim Hikmet
#18. If the date is a complete disaster, I'll text you. I'll say 'Blue Squirrel, this is Hot Fox. Mission to be aborted with extreme prejudice.' Then you call me and you tell me that there is a terrible emergency that requires my expert warlock assistance.
Cassandra Clare
#19. Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!"
Bear Grylls
#20. Never lose sight of an antelope for a dashing squirrel.
PLO Lumumba
#21. I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day.
Emily Procter
#22. When I watch roasts, I actually feel physically uncomfortable, like when I see a crow feast on a squirrel that has been hit by a car buy has not stopped moving yet.
Mindy Kaling
#23. The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the landscape of being us.
Frederick Buechner
#24. WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, It's the Squirrel, you don't ask questions.
Rick Riordan
#25. The squirrel, jumping from limb to limb, trust his nature like no human ever could.
Garry Fitchett
#26. Art is one of the few places where talent and madness can actually go to squirrel away inside each other.
Pat Conroy
#28. No one knew about the squirrel's skull beneath her bed, but no one wanted to know.
Ian McEwan
#29. I can't kill myself, I thought. I'm too insignificant. I'm nothing. I'm a thumbprint on the first-floor window of a skyscraper, a smudge of excrement on a tissue surging out to sea along with millions of tons of raw sewage, a squirrel eating a nut as a car bore down on him.
Rex Pickett
#30. Don't make a feller wait too long. A feller waiting on a gal can get ornery'er than a huntin' dog that's tree'd it's squirrel.
Colleen Houck
#31. Neferet, you're nuttier than squirrel turds.
P.C. Cast
#32. You can't spell squirrel without si, and that's me.
Si Robertson
#33. There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#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. If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
George Eliot
#36. There's a reason Bath & Body Works doesn't have a line of products called Huge Fucking Squirrel.
Kevin Hearne
#37. I believe today that there is no film and no shot in a film that is worth a squirrel getting a sprained ankle.
William Friedkin
#38. I guess even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then. Anthony
KB Jacobs
#39. And no offense, but it does smell like a squirrel crawled up your ass and died there.
James S.A. Corey
#41. You crawled inside my
ribs to die.
Giant becomes squirrel
becomes a dirt-wet girl
feverishly alive.
Virginia Petrucci
#42. In nature everything is valuable, everything has its place. The rose, the daisy, the lark, the squirrel, each is different but beautiful. Each has its own expression. Each flower its' own fragrance. Each bird its' own song. So you too have your own unique melody.
Diane Dreher
#43. I love my squirrel and dumplings, but you can make it with chicken and dumplings. I love making the dumplings. I think I just like to roll out dough.
Kay Robertson
#44. We are the biggest sissies in the jungle. Every other animal is stronger than we are - they have fangs, they have claws, they have nimbleness, they have speed. We think Usain Bolt is fast - Usain Bolt can get his ass kicked by a squirrel.
Christopher McDougall
#46. A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa. - Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder
Eli Pariser
#47. I'm going to be late. I get home exactly sixteen minutes before my shift starts, which only gives me six minutes to get it together and get out the door. By get it together I mean calm the freak down, because I'm jittery and spastic and acting, as Mo would say, like a squirrel on crack.
Jessica Martinez
#48. A man could shoot a squirrel out of a tree from a distance of sixty feet. But he couldn't vomit into a bucket or pee into a pot only two feet away. It was one of the great mysteries of life.
Maggie Osborne
#49. They might as well have been trying to fit a squirrel through the eye of a needle.
Embee
#50. What is more fawning than a dog? And yet what is more faithful? What is more fond and caressing than a squirrel? But where will you find a better friend to man?
Erasmus
#51. If I'm an andy," Phil Resch said, "and you kill me, you can have my squirrel. Here; I'll write it out, willing it to you.
Philip K. Dick
#52. Next time he summons me like a half-asred squirrel demon," I said,"I'll tell him so!
Rainbow Rowell
#53. He strode toward the bathroom door, but Vera launched herself at him like a flying squirrel coasting to another tree.
T.S. Joyce
#54. I don't know if I have sexual magnetism or animal magnetism, though sometimes I'll find a squirrel stuck to my forehead.
Emo Philips
#55. Let me tell you, if you have never seen an agitated squirrel you have seen very little, nor have you heard much, because the sound of an angry squirrel is not to be forgotten.
Joe R. Lansdale
#56. Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or are you swallowing a squirrel? Keep moving -
Thomas Harris
#57. These days. Most of us have the attention span of a meth-addicted squirrel.
Kristen Lamb
#58. If a dog happens to catch a rabbit or another animal, it can very easily remove the hide. If a cat catches a squirrel, they have no trouble with that. But if a person does that, they will work all day and all night to get the skin off of an animal, because they don't have long canine teeth anymore.
Neal Barnard
#59. He filled a bowl with cereal that looked like twigs a squirrel had pooped out.
David Baldacci
#61. The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.
Henry David Thoreau
#62. Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn't live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating stewed squirrel. The world was simply grander back then, somehow more civilized, and nicer to look at.
David Sedaris
#63. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
George Eliot
#64. It was astonishing, really, what people could live through. Flora felt cheered up all of a sudden, just thinking about eating seal blubber and doing impossible things, surviving when the odds were against her and her squirrel. They
Kate DiCamillo
#65. Sex with a squirrel who had exciting breasts beneath her little-kid pajamas was not without its appeal,
Jonathan Franzen
#66. A squirrel is the same as a can, when there's a bb gun in my hand. Can't you see that I am just a man? With distinctions ... and comparisons.
Demetri Martin
#67. There were two Republican responses to the State of the Union. So if you watched the whole night, it was kind of evolution in reverse. You have Obama, then Paul Ryan, and then Michele Bachmann. Then Animal Planet had a squirrel monkey give his take.
Bill Maher
#68. Squirrel! I've told you not to share your cheek nuts with humans. They don't appreciate it as much as other squirrels!
Trevor H. Cooley
#69. The security staff boasted that a squirrel could not get onto the grounds without their knowledge. However, they could not explain a family of deer that seemed to come and go as they pleased.
Richard Turner
#70. A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.
George Eliot
#71. The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
Rupert Sheldrake
#72. A SUPERHERO SQUIRREL RESTED AT HER FEET, AND SO SHE WAS NOT LONELY AT ALL emblazoned
Kate DiCamillo
#73. It was one of those moments when everything is out of balance, I suppose, and just watching an odd thing seems to make sense. The squirrel scampered up a tree trunk, the sound of its nails like water in a tub.
Colum McCann
#75. Nugget?" said Micah, offering a lump to Toby.
"Thanks," said Toby. He took a bite and chewed thoughtfully.
"I think maybe it is a squirrel." He said.
Ridley Pearson
#76. I know my name's Squirrelpaw, but I never thought I'd wish that I WAS a squirrel!
Erin Hunter
#77. I had a dream about you last night... in it, I tried to sell a squirrel a deposit box to store his nuts in. He stole my cashews in the complimentary snack basket.
Marshall Ramsay
#78. I cannot see in the dark like the Northern flying squirrel - Glaucomys sabrinus - who lives in the trees of the Pacific Northwest and is strictly nocturnal. So I take a flashlight.
Ned Hayes
#79. She were forced to describe it, she would say that it tasted exactly like squirrel: fuzzy, damp, slightly nutty. Have you lost your
Kate DiCamillo
#80. What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.
Jodi Picoult
#81. Magnus's eyes gleamed. He seems to like you. I saw him going for your hand out there like a squirrel diving for a peanut.
Cassandra Clare
#82. O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring And promise of exceeding joy hereafter.
George Arnold
#84. The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow into the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe that will grow to slay me.
Neil Gaiman
#85. Also, I'm not sure, but I bet squirrel tossing is not an allowable sport in Heaven.
Vicki Graybosch
#86. You cn't be suspicious of a tree, accuse a bird or squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet
Hal Borland
#87. They have said that the Lilim were dead before now, but they have always lied. The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow into the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe who will grow to slay me.
Neil Gaiman
#88. I won't always be the odd ones going round and round in our owe little squirrel cage!
Corinne Willis
#90. Tolkien's words and sentences seemed like natural things, like rock formations or waterfalls, and wanting to write like Tolkien would have been, for me, like wanting to blossom like a cherry tree or climb a tree like a squirrel or rain like a thunderstorm. - Gaiman on J. R. R. Tolkien
Neil Gaiman
#91. We were of thirteen minds, like a tree, in which there is one Red-tail and eleven squirrel parts.
Cameron Conaway
#92. Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.
Susan Mallery
#93. I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more and I felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#94. Okey dokey, fire up the blender, let's make a furry-flurry smoothie out of that squirrel!
Christopher Moore
#95. Dad's romances could last anywhere between a platypus egg incubation (19-21 days) and a squirrel pregnancy (24-45 days).
Marisha Pessl
#97. Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand.
David W. Earle
#98. You even used to make up funny stories about those poor little lost creatures of yours. Remember Bob, the squirrel banker who forgot to pay his electric bill so he froze to death?
Kimberly Derting
#99. A squirrel attacked me. I got attacked by a squirrel in Battersea Park. They're dangerous. It's rare. I've torn most of the ligaments in my knee. So no football for me. It's early retirement now. I've got a floating knee-cap!
Niall Horan
