“I don't like rats any more than the next bloke, but they ain't wicked and cruel like people can be. They're just… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You’d make an enemy out of me over a human?” The word “human” might as well have been “rodent. — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Don't "pole-vault over mouse truds" - by the time you've discussed the many options available to you, the problem itself could have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one… — Harriet Harman Copy Share Image
The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Speciesism is a failure to empathize with those outside one's group. In general, speciesists simply disregard the myriad nonhumans whom humans intentionally… — Joan Dunayer Copy Share Image
Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Years ago, it was pretty hard to get people to empathize even a little bit with scaly, cold-blooded critters; now, thanks a… — Romulus Whitaker Copy Share Image
I'm not a big-game hunter. I've made that very clear. I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmints, if you… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish… — A. Whitney Brown Copy Share Image
You can’t protect yourself. No matter how safe you think you are. No matter how much precaution you take, the rodents always… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species. — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
Your father wasn’t a positive influence on you, was he? (Simone) Being the god of nightmares, he wasn’t a warm fuzzy bunny.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Although you should respect venomous snakes and approach them with caution, most snakes you encounter in an urban environment are harmless and… — Robert Pierce Copy Share Image
Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes — Julian Clary Copy Share Image
The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed,… — June Callwood Copy Share Image