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  • I couldn't be more chuffed if I were a badger at the start of the mating season!

  • Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.

    Hate   Dinner   Badgers  
    Kenneth Grahame (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Kenneth Grahame (Illustrated)”, p.39, Delphi Classics
  • Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Find them. Badger them. Get them elected. They might not thank you for it, but a lot of other people will.

  • The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place.

    Long   Important   Unseen  
    Kenneth Grahame (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Kenneth Grahame (Illustrated)”, p.39, Delphi Classics
  • One of the recurring philosophical questions is: 'Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one to hear?' Which says something about the nature of philosophers , because there is always someone in a forest. It may only be a badger, wondering what that cracking noise was, or a squirrel a bit puzzled by all the scenery going upwards, but someone.

    Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.10, Random House
  • Who is Alice?" asked mother. "Alice is somebody that nobody can see," said Frances. "And that is why she does not have a birthday. So I am singing Happy Thursday to her." - Frances the badger

    Mother   Singing   Doe  
  • Remember on this one thing, said Badger. The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other's memories. This is how people care for themselves.

    FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Jun 30, 2010
  • I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and thats really motivating.

    Fun   Secret   Having Fun  
  • The good doctor put a spoon of tea into my honey." "You're drinking tea a honey badger made," Jim said. "What did you expect?

    Drinking   Doctors   Tea  
    Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.208, Penguin
  • Don't badger people without children into admitting the secret desire for children you're sure they have to you! Don't badger anyone! Leave the badgering to the badgers.

    "Do It for the Kids". Live Chat, www.slate.com. December 21, 2015.
  • It's tax day and while many Americans are filing their taxes with a groan, taxpayers in the Badger State have reason to cheer. In Wisconsin, we have enacted more than $2 billion in tax cuts, giving our citizens much-needed relief, call us crazy Midwesterners but we think you know how to spend your money better than the government.

    Cheer   Crazy   Cutting  
  • I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.

    Funny   Running   Country  
  • [Leafpool] waved her tail in greeting as she padded past Cloudtail and Daisy; as she left the clearing she heard Cloudtail meowing, "This time try to pretend I'm a badger and I'm going to eat your kits." "But my kits really like you," Daisy protested.

    Past   Trying   Tails  
  • You are who you are. I know you. You believe that? "Yea but--" "You're Eve Dallas. You're the love of my life. My heart and Soul. You're a cop, mind and bone. You're a woman of strength and resilience. Stubborn, hardheaded, occassionally mean as a badger, and more generous that you'll admit.

    Believe   Heart   Mean  
  • Badgers know where their strength lies. Do you?

    Lying   Badgers   Knows  
  • I'm more lopsided than a one legged badger!" Graypaw stopped his careful stalking to wander comically across the clearing "I will have to settle for hunting stupid mice I shall just wander up to them, and sit on them until they surrender!

  • Simple,' Tummeler replied.' Blueberries is one of the great forces o'good in the world.' How do you figure that?' said Charles. Well,' said Tummeler, 'have you ever seen a troll, or a Wendigo, or,' he shuddered, 'a Shadow-Born ever eating a blueberry pie?' No,' Charles admitted. There y'go,' said Tummeler. It's cause they can't stand the goodness in it.' Can't argue with you there,' said Charles. Foods is good and evil, just like people, or badgers, or even scowlers.' Evil food?' said Charles. Parsnips,' said Tummeler, 'Them's as evil as they come.

    Simple   Pie   People  
  • It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

    "Expecting Someone Taller". Book by Tom Holt, 1987.
  • The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be "free" because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free.

    "Julian Assange answers your questions". Q&A, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2010.
  • My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

    Shy   Firsts   Nocturnal  
  • You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn't know before, just talking about the Badgers.

    Talking   Two   People  
  • 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.

    Dodie Smith, Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Daughter: I Capture the Castle & The Secret Garden”, p.419, Random House
  • Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right." —The law of Badger Lords

    Law   Giving   Justice  
  • Governor Scott Walker didn't know who he was messing with when he picked a fight with the hard-working union folks of Wisconsin. He must have forgotten that Wisconsin is the Badger State. And badgers are scrappy little creatures. We may look cute, warm and fuzzy, but we have a fighting spirit.

    "The Struggle Continues: The Wisconsin Labor Movement One Year Later" by Rep. Gwen Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2012.
  • Last week a former Royal Marine who is the boyfriend of the model Kelly Brooks crashed into a bus stop while driving a van carrying a load of dead badgers. I mention this solely to remind you that linguists are not kidding when they say … that your command of English enables you to understand sentences that have never occurred before in the entire history of the human species.

  • It’s probably the most unpopular policy I’m responsible for. I know it is very unpopular, culling badgers. But I believe it is the right thing to do. You have to make choices as a politician. Sometimes it means doing something you know people don’t like.

    Believe   Mean   People  
  • I've read about myself and my husband and my family, to the point where they've called my parents, they've called my brothers, offering money to tell stories. They call friends of mine. I'd just like for them to just ... don't badger us. Don't scrutinize us. We have children and they have to live, too. It's not fair.

    "Houston praises fans, bashes rumors as new album releases" by Mark Scheerer, www.cnn.com. November 18, 1998.
  • I'm running for Governor, and this Honey Badger is ready to fight.

  • Well, I'm more lopsided than a one-legged badger.

    Erin Hunter (2015). “Warriors 6-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Enter the Clans: Books 1-6 Plus Enter the Clans”, p.39, HarperCollins
  • A nod is as good as a wink to a blind badger.

    Blind   Badgers  
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