quotes about Squirrels
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I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.
-- Amy Weber -
I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.
-- Andre Leon Talley -
I've started collecting taxidermy: I've got a red squirrel, called Steve. I made sure he came with certificates so we know he wasn't just killed for stuffing.
-- Arthur DarvillSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!"
-- Bear Grylls -
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My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.
-- Beth Ditto -
Go on, try weasel, try squirrel; it tastes like chicken, it tastes just like chicken! If it tastes just like chicken, why don't you gimme some damn chicken?
-- Bobcat Goldthwait -
Step aside? I step aside for nobeast, whether it be a hallowed hedgehog, an officious otter, a seasoned squirrel, a mutterin' mole or a befuddled badger!
-- Brian Jacques -
I was so urban-centric once. I did not want to see a patch of grass. I did not want to look at a tree. I didn't want to be anywhere near a sparrow, or a squirrel, or a pigeon, because I just wanted to be consumed by the asphalt-jungle aspect of New York.
-- Carlos DenglerSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and get into the forests again, we shall shiver with cold and fright but things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in, and passion will make our bodies taut with power, we shall stamp our feet with new power and old things will fall down, we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
It's good to see you," Said Haru. "You can see me?" asked Marcus, patting himself in sudden shock."The potion must have worn off! That's the last time I give my lunch to a talking squirrel". P12
-- Dan Wells -
All paths lie together in the hand of god like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or less than the beetle's or the squirrel's or the sparrow's. All are held together.
-- Daniel Quinn -
Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon Envy and Avarice. A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste ...
-- Dorothy L. Sayers -
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The next time you see one of those squirrels go near my putting green, take a gun and shoot it
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don't know what to do with it.
-- Edward Weston -
I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said between clenched teeth. "True, he apparently has the morals of a squirrel, but that's my cross to bear.
-- Eloisa James -
I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun!
-- Emily Dickinson -
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I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day.
-- Emily Procter -
My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.
-- Eric Roberts -
I was becoming more cunning than an animal in hiding my supply of morphine. A squirrel saving nuts is limited by its undeveloped imagination ... but I was not so handicapped. A squirrel, for example, is debarred from sending money to some greedy doctor or druggist and making arrangements to have a bit of powder sent each day by mail.
-- Evalyn Walsh McLeanSource : Evalyn Walsh McLean, Boyden Sparkes (2000). “Queen of Diamonds: The Fabled Legacy of Evalyn Walsh McLean”, Turner Publishing Company
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Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.
-- Frances Hodgson BurnettSource : Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.143, Penguin
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Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden-in all the places.
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Although we didn't invite Lucinda, she arrived anyway-with a gift. "No need," Char and I chimed together. "Remember when you were a squirrel," Mandy said.
-- Gail Carson Levine -
Squirrels are just rats with good publicity
-- Garrison Wynn -
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I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and squirrels. I hear the life of the trees this wood came from.
-- Garth Stein -
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
-- George Eliot -
A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.
-- George Eliot -
There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb.
-- George W. Bush -
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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
-- Hal Borland -
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.
-- Harriet HarmanSource : "Harriet Harman Says 'Ginger Rodent' Comment Was Wrong". www.bbc.com. October 30, 2010.
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No one knew about the squirrel’s skull beneath her bed, but no one wanted to know.
-- Ian Mcewan -
Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans.
-- James Lee -
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Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.
-- Jay GriffithsSource : "Fifty years on, the silence of Rachel Carson's spring consumes us" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2012.
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Sometimes big trees grow out of acorns - I think I heard that from a squirrel.
-- Jerry Coleman -
Many people love grey squirrels, but the reality is that they are a real problem for some of our most threatened native species, like the red squirrel and dormouse. It is not realistic, practical or even desirable to completely eradicate grey squirrels, but we must control them effectively.
-- Jim KnightSource : "Grey squirrels targeted" by James Meikle, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2006.
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For instance, the blood of hibernating arctic squirrels may supercool to minus 3 degrees, when it would normally congeal. The supercooled blood still flows, since it remains a liquid, but the slightest disturbance will cause it to freeze, killing the squirrel; therefore, you should not disturb hibernating arctic squirrels.
-- Joao MagueijoSource : João Magueijo (2004). “Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, Penguin Group USA
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The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.
-- Jodi Picoult -
Let me tell you, if you have never seen an agitated squirrel you have seen very little, nor have you heard much, because the sound of an angry squirrel is not to be forgotten.
-- Joe R. LansdaleSource : Joe R. Lansdale (2016). “Bad Chili: Hap and Leonard Book Four”, p.12, Hachette UK
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I've been stocking my nuts away like a squirrel for 15 years. I don't have kids, I don't have a wife. I own my own house. I don't owe anybody for it so I put my nuts away. I really made a commitment to myself to just do what I like to do and want to do, and not to do anything. I'm not even going to give six weeks away for money anymore, you know?
-- John Corbett -
Like squirrels, the best in every business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilities - they flat out trust their skills, which is why we call this high-performance state of mind the "Trusting Mindset."
-- John EliotSource : John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.26, Diversion Books
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I have never been able to entertain a God-idea which was not integrally related to the fact of chipmunks, squirrels, hippopotamuses, galaxies, and light years.
-- Joseph SittlerSource : Joseph Sittler, Steven Bouma-Prediger, Peter W. Bakken (2000). “Evocations of Grace: The Writings of Joseph Sittler on Ecology, Theology, and Ethics”, p.77, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.
-- Kate DiCamillo -
She told them simply and directly that the meadow was a place of peace and beauty, where indeed if one came to it in a quiet manner, the animals would not be disturbed; for there are lovely birds, and squirrels and field mice, and sometimes deer.
-- Kathryn LaskySource : Kathryn Lasky (2013). “The Royal Diaries: Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769”, p.138, Scholastic Inc.
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I love my squirrel and dumplings, but you can make it with chicken and dumplings. I love making the dumplings. I think I just like to roll out dough.
-- Kay Robertson -
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A witch, a vampire, and a pixy walk into a bar, I thought as I led the way into the Squirrel’s End. It was early, and the sun had yet to set when the door swung shut behind Jenks, sealing us in the warm air smelling faintly of smoke. Immediately Nick yanked it open to come in behind us. And there’s the punch line.
-- Kim Harrison -
The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one.
-- Lee Child -
Small birds throw seeds out of the feeder; large birds pick them up off the ground, but the squirrels try to muscle in.
-- Lilian Jackson BraunSource : Lilian Jackson Braun (1999). “The Cat Who Sang for the Birds”, p.37, Penguin
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Well, it may be humorous to you, but it’s a very serious matter to the squirrels.
-- Lisa Kleypas -
Ant Prune was holding one of the squirrels in her hand. ‘And once a day, we have ta clean their little private parts with a Q-tip, so they'll learn ta clean themselves.' That was a visual I didn't need
-- Margaret Stohl -
A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
-- Mark Zuckerberg -
You can't keep a squirrel on the ground.
-- Mary LasswellSource : Mary Lasswell (2016). “Suds in Your Eye”, p.114, Open Road Media
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Red squirrels... you don't see many of them since they became extinct.
-- Michael Aspel -
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
-- Millicent Fenwick -
Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
-- Naz?m HikmetSource : Nâzım Hikmet, Mutlu Konuk Blasing (1994). “Poems of Nazim Hikmet”
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A squirrel attacked me. I got attacked by a squirrel in Battersea Park. They're dangerous. It's rare. I've torn most of the ligaments in my knee. So no football for me. It's early retirement now. I've got a floating knee-cap!
-- Niall Horan -
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When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it is like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around.
-- Nick HanauerSource : "Here Is the Full Inequality Speech and Slideshow That Was Too Hot for TED". www.theatlantic.com. May 17, 2012.
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The thought of eating rabbit and squirrels doesn't appeal to me. And that was on our table quite often as a kid. In your uppity restaurants, they serve a lot of rabbit. But I just can't help but think of Peter. And deer, I can't go there, because of Bambi.
-- Paula Deen -
Never lose sight of an antelope for a dashing squirrel.
-- PLO Lumumba -
I held a blue flower in my hand, probably a wild aster, wondering what its name was, and then thought that human names for natural things are superfluous. Nature herself does not name them. The important thing is to know this flower, look at its color until the blends becomes as real as a keynote of music. Look at the exquisite yellow flowerettes at the center, become very small with them. Be the flower, be the trees, the blowing grasses. Fly with the birds, jump with a squirrel!
-- Sally Carrighar -
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A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit!
-- Sarah Jessica Parker -
You can't spell squirrel without si, and that's me.
-- Si RobertsonSource : Si Robertson (2014). “Si-cology 1: Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty’s Favorite Uncle”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
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the sex even in serious ***** has less singularity than the mating of squirrels.
-- Storm Jameson -
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.
-- Susan MallerySource : Susan Mallery (2012). “Falling for Gracie”, p.30, Harlequin
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I had to make squirrel noises as Bubbles and without realizing it, I was making the face and putting my fingers up to my face to look like a squirrel and everyone made fun of me for the rest of the day.
-- Tara StrongSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational.
-- Thomas M. DischSource : Thomas M. Disch (1986). “The brave little toaster: a bedtime story for small appliances”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers
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...in the woods, if you stopped, if you grew still, you'd hear a whole new set of sounds, wind rasping through silhouetted leaves and the cries and chatter of blue jays and brown thrashers and redbirds and sparrows, the calling of crows and hawks, squirrels barking, frogs burping, the far braying of dogs, armadillos snorkeling through dead leaves...
-- Tom Franklin -
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again.
-- Will Smith -
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Outside openings to attics, crawl spaces and similar locations should be sealed off so rats and squirrels cant get into houses, garages or other structures. Pet owners should make an extra effort to keep their domestic animals free of fleas and avoid leaving out pet food where it can attract wild animals.
-- Frank Hall