Squirrelly Quotations:

• "Squirrels for nuts contend, and, wrong or right,
• For the world's empire kings ambitious fight.
• What odds?--to us 'tis all the self-same thing,
• A nut, a world, a squirrel, and a king."
• -Charles Churchill
• "The steeples swam in amethyst, the news like squirrels swam."
• -Emily Dickinson
• "Presents upon a tree equally plausibly, but (nut) Meat within, is requisite to squirrels, and to me."
• -Emily Dickinson (yet again)
• "Him dat giv' de squir'ls de bushtails made de bobtails fu' de rabbits"
• -Paul Dunbar
• "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
• "The mountain and the squirrel had a quarral."
• -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "The wildness of squirrels is an awesome wildness."
• -Douglas Fairbairn
• "You can't keep a squirrel on the ground."
• -Mary Lasswell
• "You can't find a striped squirrel in every hollow fence pole."
• -Nash
• "Policemen, like red squirrels, must be protected."
• -Joe Orton
• "Her chariot is an empty hazelnut, made by the joiner squirrel or old grub."
• -William Shakespeare
• "Some of you hide food around the house like a squirrel storing up nuts for the winter"
• -Richard Simmons
• "My squirrel with his tail curved up like half a silver lyre."
• -Winifred Welles
• "Like a small grey coffee pot sits the squirrel."
• -Humbert Wolfe
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