Rats. Rats, mice, and rodents.

When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.

You mean he came to your school? The scandalous rodent-loaf!

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes.

Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.

I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore.

You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet could be running loose in your pants.

I have a phobia. I have a serious phobia of rodents. I don't even like white mice, hamsters.

You’d make an enemy out of me over a human?” The word “human” might as well have been “rodent.

I'm not a big-game hunter. I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmints, if you will.

I hate rodents. I cannot stand rodents. I couldn't even watch 'Ratatouille,' which is an animated film.

You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

I hate rodents. I mean, the House of Commons is completely infested. I will stand on a chair if I see one of the things.

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

Win and you are the superior being in all the universe; lose, and may the fleas of a million rodents, infect your every orifice.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person.

You can’t protect yourself. No matter how safe you think you are. No matter how much precaution you take, the rodents always find a way in.’ (Kiara)

I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.

In middle school, I was really into the 'Redwall' series, about anthropomorphic rodents in medieval times. I had a bowl cut, too, if you need the full imagery.

The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything

Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.

Rodents are pests and not pets, and anything that manically runs around a wheel 24/7 and occasionally has 19 babies in the middle of the night should not be brought into the house.

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.

Although you should respect venomous snakes and approach them with caution, most snakes you encounter in an urban environment are harmless and beneficial because they eat insects, mice and other rodents.

Let’s find someplace where there aren’t any dead people, insects, or rodents. For that matter, someplace that’s big enough to accommodate both of us without crimping any internal organs. (Shahara) Picky, picky, picky. (Syn)

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Don't "pole-vault over mouse truds" - by the time you've discussed the many options available to you, the problem itself could have been long behind you had you simply disposed of those rodent droppings with a simple tissue and dumped them into the garbage!

Your father wasn’t a positive influence on you, was he? (Simone) Being the god of nightmares, he wasn’t a warm fuzzy bunny. Unless you count Happy Bunny. Amazingly the two of them have a lot in common…And I have to say that I’ve developed a fondness for that pissy rodent. (Xypher)

Things I am allergic to: people who believe in star signs and think nothing of starting a conversation with: 'Hi, my name's Lucy. I'm a Sagittarius;' rodents (apart from miniature hamsters, which are not in fact rodents but small, breathing, brown balls of cotton wool); and people who go to the gym.

Perhaps most important for nomads was the belief in the symbiosis that existed between wolf and humans on the steppe. Wolves were an integral part of keeping the balance of nature, ensuring that plagues of rabbits and rodents didn't break out, which in turn protected the all-important pasture for the nomads' herds.

Then it's very easy to point fingers at other people and use this kind of rhetoric, infestation and comparing people to rodents, insects, showing them as very undesirable people - not people who feel the same, who care about their families too, no, but as people who are different and less human, to dehumanize them.

Years ago, it was pretty hard to get people to empathize even a little bit with scaly, cold-blooded critters; now, thanks a lot to good PR from television, it is easier to get the message of reptile conservation and tolerance across. We have a lot to be thankful to reptiles for, not the least of which is their control of rodents.

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