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Quotes About Rat

One of the apprentices whispered loudly, "I'm not surprised he wants to hide in a Twoleg nest—once a kittypet, always a kittypet." Fireheart bristled. He hadn't heard that insult for several moons. But the story that a kittypet had joined a Clan must have made rich gossip at any Gathering. Of course WindClan would know. He whipped around and glared at the apprentice. "You've spent two moons living in a Twoleg tunnel. Does that make you a rat?
~ Erin Hunter
I'm not surprised he wants to hide in a Twoleg nest—once a kittypet, always a kittypet." Fireheart bristled. He hadn't heard that insult for several moons. But the story that a kittypet had joined a Clan must have made rich gossip at any Gathering. Of course WindClan would know. He whipped around and glared at the apprentice. "You've spent two moons living in a Twoleg tunnel. Does that make you a rat?
~ Erin Hunter
It's because I'm a rat,' he said. 'Isn't it?' 'You're not really a rat,' I said. 'I'm a rat and this is a violation of the human rights act.' I really wish members of the public would bother to read that bloody act before quoting from it. 'No it isn't,' I said. 'Apart from anything else, if you really are a rat, then the Human Rights Act doesn't apply.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.
~ Joseph Barbera
University of Alabama snake digestion expert Stephen Secor did this some years back to reenact a scene for National Geographic television. "Worked like a charm," he told me. "I can get a python to eat a beer bottle if I put a rat head on it.")
~ Mary Roach
How its heart beats! How it struggles to get away! As we do, Paul. As we do. We think we know so much, but we really don't know any more than a rat in a trap—a rat with a broken back that thinks it still wants to live.
~ Stephen King
We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.
~ Sonny Bono
It's poison," Yellowfang went on. "Rat droppings! Only a spineless bag of fur would accept such disgusting frogspawn
~ Erin Hunter
Burdock root?" Leafpaw heard her mentor scramble to her paws, and a heartbeat later Cinderpelt poked her head out of the den. "What do you want that for? Come on, Leafpaw, what do we use burdock root for?" "Rat bites, Cinderpelt," Leafpaw meowed.
~ Erin Hunter
Even the kits were affected, boldly playing at rat attacks during the day, but scurrying back to the nursery at any unexpected noise. But
~ Erin Hunter
Make no mistake," the anthropologist Loren Eiseley once said. "Everything in the mind is in rat's country. It doesn't die.
~ Beth Kephart
But the mind is rat's country. If you fall once you could fall again. If the world spins it could never stop spinning.
~ Beth Kephart
The intended response... is caution, my friends. I intend these stories to be a warning. - Against what? Small rat creatures with human faces? - A warning of what is to come... should I fail.
~ Hans Rodionoff
He claimed it was spatchcocked squirrel, but it looked more like a rat that someone had splatted with a hammer, around the time Stonehenge was built, and had then left preserved in a peat bog. It was possibly the least appetising thing I have ever seen. But I was there for telly, so I had a bite. The 'squirrel' didn't taste any better than it looked.
~ Simon Reeve
and that bastard Breckinridge Scott, yes, the Phalanx king, still hiding like a rat in his Antarctic Fortress of Scumditude. --Arthur Sinclair
~ Max Brooks
Giving inspiration to a lawyer, Sharpe thought sourly, was like feeding fine brandy to a rat.
~ Bernard Cornwell
inexperienced Rat Packer who constantly sidled up to the boat, was laden with so much electronic gear that he came to be known as Radio Shack. The lone
~ Susan Casey
He's] a rat. A first-class double-A-battery-run rat.
~ Flo Fitzpatrick
What human being doesn't hesitate and feel hurt? Hatsumi demanded. Are you trying to say that you have never felt those things? Of course I have, but I've disciplined myself to where I can minimize them. Even a rat will choose the least painful route if you shcok him enough. But rats don't fall in love.
~ Haruki Murakami
Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.
~ Fat Joe
I searched my feelings, an activity never far removed from looking for a dead rat in a spidery crawl space under the house.
~ Michael Chabon
Non… Gratum… Anum… Ro—' I can't make that out." "Rodentum," Bosch said. Sakai looked at him. "Dog Latin," Bosch told him. "Not worth a rat's ass. He was a tunnel rat. Vietnam.
~ Michael Connelly
He loves to play, cat with rat.
~ Tanith Lee
The label derives from comparative psychology, the name of a field that traditionally has viewed animals as mere stand-ins for humans: a monkey is a simplified human, a rat a simplified monkey, and so
~ Frans de Waal