Quotes About Bats

Il crepuscolo piace solo ai pipistrelli.

I shall be as brave as a my Toad, he thought, for my Toad never hides under the bed when she is afraid of lightning or bats. She sticks out her tongue and eats them.

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

Many excursion parties came from considerable distances up and down the river to visit the cave. It was miles in extent and was a tangled wilderness of narrow and lofty clefts and passages. It was an easy place to get lost in; anybody could do it — including the bats.

Slowly the night is falling, Falling down from the hill, And all in the low green valley The dew lies heavy and chill; The crickets cry in the hedges, The bats are circling low, And like ghosts through the blossoming garden The glimmering night-moths go...

the colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.

So bleary with jet lag that she could not sleep or make any sense in conversation, and feeling that her brain was a haunted house in which bats flew randomly from one attic beam to another

Seen from above, the canopy of oak and make and pine is pierced by the pond, which looks back at you like some green eye, knowing and ancient. The air above the pond dives into clefts of coolness, then rises up at the warmth of the margins. Down the path, filigrees of blackflies and mosquitos dance in the heat waves given off by men and women and their domestic fires. Joyous bats dart about.

Nora said, "I thought vampires drank virgin blood. They hypnotize…they turn into bats…" Setrakian said, "They are much romanticized. But the truth is more…how should I say?" "Perverse," said Eph. "Disgusting," said Nora.

What you've got to understand, son," says the doctor, "is it's all the fault of the alien space bats.

Either birds or bats flapped up and into the night as the gates rolled back into position. My money was on bats. Little blingy ones, carrying tiny Louis Vuitton clutches.

Holy bejeezus," Lula said, eyes bugged out, looking at the building. "This is scaring the crap out of me. This is like where Dracula would live if he didn't have any money and was a crack-head. I bet it's filled with rabid bats and killer snakes and hairy spiders as big as dinner plated.

She switched the headlamp on and saw bats clinging to the side of the cave inches from her face. Someone whimpered. She supposed it was her. She switched the lamp off and played out the rope, dropping more slowly, trying to control the whimpering.

He had heard odd things about this place, and lions didn't bother him, and who cared about gorillas; they were nothing. It was the creepers that made him squeamish. And the slitherers. And the stingers. And the . . . and the everything, Fezzik decided, to be truthful and honest. Spiders and snakes and bugs and bats and you name it—he just wasn't very fond of any of them.

There are more than nine hundred species of bats, a figure that represents almost a quarter of all mammal species on earth,

Her dressing gown was made of live bats sewn together by their wings: the way they fluttered, one would have thought they didn't much like it.

Do cats eat bats?… Do bats eat cats?

It was the end of August — the time when owls hoot at night and flurries of bats swoop noiselessly over the garden. Moomin Wood was full of glow-worms, and the sea was disturbed. There was expectation and a certain sadness in the air, and the harvest moon came up huge and yellow. Moomintroll had always liked those last weeks of summer most, but he didn't really know why.

There are sixty-three species of bats in Mexico, ranging from the three-inch-long bug-eating free-tailed bat to the carnivorous spectral bat, with a three-foot wingspan, which feeds on reptiles, small mammals, and other bats.

We roamed between the angels and the eagles. Bats flickered against the starry sky. Moonlight poured down

On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily.

Vampires were always able to transform into creatures of the night. The dark creatures like bats have always been associated with vampires and using the darkness to their own advantage.

Not at all," Steve assured him. "I mean, they probably don't enjoy it, but they don't get hurt. Then I can count how many and what species they are, and tag them and let them go. I promise, I'm trying to save bats, not scar them for life." He took down one of the other pillowcases. "Would you like to see some of them?

The beauty of the moonlight has no meaning for the bats and for the unfeeling minds!