Mongoose Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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