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Quotes About Rattlesnakes

You went there?" "Yes—Dallas. Uncle Harry and Aunt Tess lived there for a while. There's nothing to do but go to the movies and you can't walk anywhere, people have to drive you. Also they have rattlesnakes, and the death penalty, which I think is primitive and unethical in ninety-eight per cent of cases. But it'll probably be better for her there." "Why?
~ Donna Tartt
Another depressed man in southern California who collected rattlesnakes as a hobby deliberately allowed one of his pets to bite him five or six times on the right hand. He suffered a fatal heart attack.
~ Derek Humphry
'Megaforce' is a privately financed army of freedom fighters financed and manned by all the free countries of the world. We don't say the force is American-based, but it's obvious because they are driving Fords, encountering rattlesnakes and they ride a Continental Airlines plane. Also the landscape looks like the American desert.
~ Hal Needham
I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?
~ Elizabeth Moon
His face was contorted with rage, muscles twitching beneath his skin like a nest of rattlesnakes in a thin cotton sack.
~ Anthony Bourdain
But fear and danger aren't always directly proportional. We're all terrified by rattlesnakes, but the spider we brush off our sleeve with hardly a thought is far more likely to hurt us.
~ Greg Iles
I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for 'Serena.'
~ Ron Rash
My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.
~ Jim Fowler
Lots of people leave Pennsylvania limping and bruised. The state also has what are reputed to be the meanest rattlesnakes anywhere along the trail, and the most unreliable water sources, particularly in high summer.
~ Bill Bryson
Lots of people leave Pennsylvania limping and bruised. The state also has what are reputed to be the meanest rattlesnakes anywhere along the trail
~ Bill Bryson
Lincoln's smile could have scared rattlesnakes.
~ Catherine Webb
My momma always said that two rattlesnakes living in the same hole will get along better than two sisters. So I had three daughters to improve the odds.
~ Jill Shalvis
Misinformation about rattlesnakes is a leitmotiv of the insomniac imagination in Los Angeles.
~ Joan Didion