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Quotes About Rats

Later I had to raise the baby rats she ate, and why I thought one creature was my beloved pet while the other creatures were food is still a mystery to me. That was my first clue that love can warp a hierarchy; the whole pyramid got flipped on its head.
~ Karen Russell
it annoys me a bit how people like squirrels but not rats. at the end of the day they're the same thing, except that squirrels have had a better upbringing.
~ Karl Pilkington
healthy changes in the case of the rats with control over the stress, and deterioration and dysregulation in the others.
~ Bruce D. Perry
My attorney put down the phone after making several calls. "There's only one place where we can get fresh salmon," he said, "and it's closed on Sunday." "Of course," I snapped. "These goddamn Jesus freaks! They're multiplying like rats!
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Have you called the alphas? Yes. The rats, too? He bristled. What about the rats? They think you're hiding information from them I hide information from everyone. Do they think they're special?
~ Ilona Andrews
Even the rats are drowning,' Alex said. Nah,' Kevin said. 'They've been taking swimming lessons at the Y.
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
Ens hem d'afanyar, va dir. Però no fugiu pas, vaig fer. No sou pas rates que s'escapen d'un edifici que crema. Es va tornar a posar a riure. Exacte, va dir. Hem triat d'anar-nos-en.
~ Miriam Toews
Skinner and his colleagues launched a new study to see how far this effect could get passed down. They exposed more female rats to vinclozolin and then bred descendants for several generations. Even after four generations, they found, males kept on developing damaged sperm. Exposures to other chemicals, like DEET and jet fuel, could also alter the rats for generations.
~ Carl Zimmer
Watch-see, Holy One, my grave-rats will kill-kill all dead-things. We show-tell Fester-rats how to fight. Show-tell why Fester-rats should stay true to Horned One.
~ C.L. Werner
Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write.
~ Suzanne Collins
Any rats around?" asked Gregor. "Just the one on my back," said Ares.
~ Suzanne Collins
But that means the pups are starving to death, too. Not just the big rats," said Gregor. "Doesn't that bother you?" "Of course it bothers me!" Mareth shook his head and sighed. "It is so hard for you to know what it is like for us here, Gregor.
~ Suzanne Collins
I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.
~ Bernie Mac
there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone. sitting up in my bed the lights out, hearing the outside sounds, lifting my cheap bottle of wine, letting the warmth of the grape enter me as I heard the rats moving about the room, I preferred them to humans. being lost, being crazy maybe is not so bad if you can be that way undisturbed. New Orleans gave me that. nobody ever called my name.
~ Charles Bukowski
There are rumors of rats down here as big as German shepherds, the people not the dogs.
~ Charlie Kaufman
Pur non potendo fornire cifre precise al riguardo, possiamo affermare che nel 1347 c'erano in Europa occidentale molti più ratti e più pulci di quanto comunemente si crede.
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
Well," he explained to Em, "you start then with, say, a million rats, half of them being does or bitches or whatever you call lady rats.
~ George R. Stewart
Drunks they may be, but a drunken man knows not fear. Fools, aye, but a fool can kill a king. Rats, that too, but a thousand rats can bring down a bear.
~ George R.R. Martin
What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?
~ George R.R. Martin
There must be at least 500 million rats in the United States; of course, I am speaking only from memory.
~ Edgar Wilson Nye
Just like my onscreen character Twinkle, I'm extremely scared of rats.
~ Jasmin Bhasin
they were a sort of vermin like plague-rats that had to be exterminated.
~ Niall Ferguson
We could get kinky and see how bats and rats make love, he suggested in a whisper, warm breath against her neck. You are a sick man, Jacques. Very, very sick.
~ Christine Feehan
We can shape-shift whenever we like. She made a face. You mean all those hideous stories are true? Rats and bats and slimy worm things? Now, why would I want to be a slimy worm thing? He was openly laughing. The sound startled him; he couldn't remember laughing aloud.
~ Christine Feehan