Crocodiles Quotes - Page 4

• EBay may be a shark in the ocean, but I'm a crocodile in the Yangtze River. If we fight in the ocean, we lose, but if we fight in the river, we win.

  Jack Ma

  Ocean, Fighting, Winning

  "Standing Up to Ebay" by Justin Doebele, www.forbes.com. April 18, 2005.

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• He imagines Owens' body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his agitation. A species of dwarf crocodile lazing beside an artery.

  Lisa Ling

  Dwarves, Bird, Skins

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• I could sit and watch nature documentaries with Jenks and the kids the rest of the night if I wanted. And trust me, watching a dozen pixies scream as a crocodile chomped on a zebra was something not to be missed. They invariably cheered for the crocodile, not the zebra.

  Kim Harrison

  Zebras, Kids, Night

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• The hardest thing about my job isn't the snake bites or the crocodiles, it's being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.

  Bear Grylls

  Religious, Jobs, Children

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• Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or their place, until you've exterminated their resident monsters.

  David Quammen

  People, Monsters, Lions

  David Quammen (2004). “Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind”, p.254, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The Church is the dwelling place of God in the Person of the Holy Ghost.
  Where the Church thrives, people are blessed and progress is evident. Where there is no Church, people feed their babies to crocodiles and roam naked in the jungles.

  Oliver B. Greene

  Christian, Baby, Blessed

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• Feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers against the sun.

  John Keats

  Feelings, Sun, Vain

  John Keats (2015). “The Complete Poetry of John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn + Ode to a Nightingale + Hyperion + Endymion + The Eve of St. Agnes + Isabella + Ode to Psyche + Lamia + Sonnets and more from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.534, e-artnow

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• The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.

  P. W. Botha

  World, Want, Red

  "Dictionary of South African Quotations" by Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books, (p. 90), 1994.

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• I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.

  Bear Grylls

  Animal, Snakes, Healthy

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• Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic?

  Anna Lee

  Bird, Survival, Together

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• Right,” I said. “So the baboon, the crocodile…any other pets I should know about?” Amos thought for a moment. “Visible ones? No, I think that’s it.

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Pet, Moments

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Faint equivalents can sometimes be found ... . Or it can be rendered obliquely-an adolescent's mental image of his or her parents making love, which must be something on the order of crocodiles mating.

  Donald Barthelme

  Order, Parent, Making Love

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• I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

  George Chapman

  Song, Courage, Yield

  Eastward Ho act 5, sc. 1 (1605).

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• We were alone in a strange mansion with a baboon, a crocodile, and a weird cat. And apparently, the entire world was in danger. I looked at Sadie. “What do we do now?

  Rick Riordan

  Cat, World, Strange

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I prayed the monsters would give up. Or that perhaps Philip of Macedonia would climb back to the terrace (do crocodiles climb?) and renew the fight.

  Rick Riordan

  Giving Up, Fighting, Monsters

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Just because one is spiritual doesn't mean that one doesn't like crocodile, cashmere. We live in a material world. We still experience these things. It doesn't mean to completely disregard them.

  Tom Ford

  Spiritual, Mean, World

  "Tom Ford Unzipped: Interview Transcript". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. December 12, 2009.

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• But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) Babies are illogical. 2) Nobody is despised who can manage a crocodile. 3) Illogical persons are despised. Therefore, babies cannot manage crocodiles. And: 1) No interesting poems are unpopular among people of real taste. 2) No modern poetry is free from affectation. 3) All of your poems are on the subject of soap bubbles. 4) No affected poetry is popular among people of taste. 5) Only a modern poem would be on the subject of soap bubbles. Therefore, all your poems are uninteresting.

  Steve Martin

  Baby, Real, People

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• Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last. At the moment, the biggest crocodile in the world is Microsoft, and everybody is busy sucking up to it.

  John Naughton

  Funny, Nice, Humor

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• [At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric telegraphs, and rifled guns, and so forth; and knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things that no one will know till the coming of the Cocqcigrues.

  Charles Kingsley

  Knowledge, Character, Science

  Charles Kingsley (1872). “The Water-babies a Fairy Tale for a Land-baby by the Rev. Charles Kingsley”, p.385

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• My guiltiest pleasure? 'Untamed & Uncut'. Videos of people being attacked by animals. Yeah. I don't know why. I just love seeing guys who say, 'I'm gonna stick my hand in that crocodile's mouth and see what happens.' And then it snaps down on them. There you go - that's what you get! It's a wild animal, my friend.

  Nathan Fillion

  Animal, Hands, People

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• The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that was the end Permian extinction, where climate change caused in part by mega-volcanic eruptions wiped out ninety-five percent of life on Earth. It took about ten or twenty million years for the planet's ecosystems to stabilize. During that time you saw a lot of weird, out-of-balance ecosystems where, for example, crocodile-like predators ripped the crap out of each other along the coasts.

  Annalee Newitz

  Mass Extinction, Years, Ecosystems

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't like to try strange foods. I like to explore different foods, but if you ask me to eat crocodile or frogs... I'm like no. That's where I draw the line.

  Gabby Douglas

  Trying, Lines, Frogs

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The Marquis sighed. "I thought it was just a legend," he said. "Like the alligators in the sewers of New York City." Old Bailey nodded, sagely: "What, the big white buggers? They're down there. I had a friend lost a head to one of them." A moment of silence. Old Naeiley handed the statue back to the Marquis. Then he raised his hand, and snapped it, like a crocodile hand, at the Carabas. "It was OK," gurned Old Bailey with a grin that was most terrible to behold. "He had another.

  Neil Gaiman

  New York, Hands, Cities

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• ...good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Sports, Wrestling, Jumping

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Rivers of London”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• When the East Timor conflict broke out, when they gained independence, the militia killed a lot of East Timorese people. And their sacred totem is the crocodile. They believe that their island is actually a solidified crocodile, so it has sacred status.

  Steve Irwin

  Believe, Islands, People

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