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Julian Clary quote: "Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the..."
Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes. Julian Clary
...of eighteen kittens reared in the company of rodents, only three became rodent-killers later on. The other fifteen could not be trained to kill later by seeing other cats killing. For them the rodents had become 'family' and were no longer 'prey'. Even the three killers would not attack rodents of the same species as the one with which they were reared. Desmond Morris
If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten. Temple Grandin
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 E. B. White
It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood. Katherine Dunn
John Ashbery quote: "A little bunny or some kind of ferret was probablythere too,..."
A little bunny or some kind of ferret was probablythere too, and bore witness as only rodents can. John Ashbery
Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's... Jonathan Franzen
Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have... William S. Burroughs
Walter Jon Williams quote: "Terror skittered around the fringes of his consciousness on..."
Terror skittered around the fringes of his consciousness on fast rodent feet. Walter Jon Williams
Bill Watterson quote: "You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet could be..."
You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet could be running loose in your pants. Bill Watterson
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. Ethan Embry
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species. Anthony Storr
Preston Manning quote: "Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit..."
Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent. Preston Manning
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. Umberto Eco

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