Rodents Quotes

“You mean he came to your school? The scandalous rodent-loaf!”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Hawaii once had a rat problem. Then, somebody hit upon a brilliant solution. import mongooses from India. Mongooses would kill the rats. It worked. Mongooses did kill the rats. Mongooses also killed chickens, young pigs, birds, cats, dogs, and small children. There have been reports of mongooses attacking motorbikes, power lawn mowers, golf carts, and James Michener. in Hawaii now, there are as many mongooses as there once were rats. Hawaii had traded its rat problem for a mongoose problem. Hawaii was determined nothing like that would ever happen again.

How could Leigh-Cheri draw for Gulietta the appropriate analogy between Hawaii's rodents and society at large? Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“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, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“A little
bunny or some kind of ferret was probably
there too, and bore witness as only rodents can.”
― John Ashbery

“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, I Was a Rat!

“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, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

“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, I Was a Rat!

“I haven't seen you for a while," she said. "Where have you been?"
"I had to dispose of a rodent," he said lightly.
"A rodent?" she repeated, perplexed. "Couldn't one of the servants have taken care of it?
His white teeth gleamed as he laughed. "I wanted to take care of this one."
"Oh." She looked across the polished drawing room floor with a frown of worry. "Do you think there might be others scurrying around? They like to run up ladies' skirts, you know."
Still smiling, Ross slipped an arm around her waist. "My lady, the only creature that will nibble at your ankles tonight is me.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Lady Sophia's Lover

“The observatory management team were advised not to allow an infant to stay at the high altitude observatory by their observatory director and the National Optical Astronomical Observatory (NOAO) health and safety manager. They ignored both of them and allowed the infant to stay at the industrialized research facility. The industrial facility was regarded as health and safety risk to the infant and had infestations of rodents and scorpions. It was regularly sprayed with pesticides by pest control.”
― Steven Magee

“It's so weird how people like hamsters so much better than squirrels," Veblen added, knowing that hamsters were hindgut fermenters and coprophagists, whereas squirrels were nothing of the sort.”
― Elizabeth Mckenzie, The Portable Veblen

“Kitt Peak National Observatory was infested with rodents. There were so many that rodent traps were in daily use there.”
― Steven Magee

“And now a few words of enlightenment for animal rights advocates: for many, the sight of my kind with one of these plague bags, excuse me, with one of these rodents between our teeth is a heartrending sight.”
― Akif Pirinçci