Mongoose Quotes:

The motto of all the mongoose family is, "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

- Rudyard Kipling

source: Rudyard Kipling, Lambert Davis (1992). “Rikki-tikki-tavi”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Running, Motto, Mongoose

The mongoose I want under the stairs when the snakes slither by.

- Hannibal

topic: Snakes, Want, Stairs, Mongoose

Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

topic: Looks, World, Easy, Inspirational Friendship, Musicianship

Fiction. . . . It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins.

- Shauna Singh Baldwin

topic: Winning, Battle, Fiction, Cobras, Mongoose

Throughout history, men have tried to play God by moving rabbits, goats, sparrows, mongooses, and a hundred other species to oceanic islands and island continents, and later have wished to God they hadn't.

- Victor Blanchard Scheffer

topic: Moving, Men, Islands, Mongoose

Humans are a young species, and my little life abides in a very big place, where epochs glide by as swiftly as the mongoose. And strangely enough, when we put our human concerns into their proper, small place, we can turn our attention completely to the small things. To a cricket hidden in a crack of lava. To each other.

- Sallie Tisdale

topic: Attention, Littles, Lava, Mongoose, Small Places