Jungle Quotes - Page 6

• Law of the jungle. The betrayee gets to eat the betrayer. --Dante Pontis

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Law

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• Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Leadership, Law, Sky

  The Second Jungle Book "The Law of the Jungle" st. 1 (1895)

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• And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand. Metaphors turned beneath my feet and became biting snakes, similes fled from my grasp like frightened deer, taking all meaning with them. All was alien, and amidst the hanging, entangling creepers of this foreign grammar, all sound became a cacophany. I feared for myself, for my health and sanity, but then I thought of my purpose, of where I was and who I was, of pain and I pressed on.

  Vikram Chandra

  Pain, Snakes, Feet

  Vikram Chandra (2011). “Red Earth and Pouring Rain”, p.277, Faber & Faber

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• If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.

  Scott Dikkers

  Boss, Levels, Safe

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• I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.

  Keri Russell

  Children, Book, Reading

  "Keri Russell Brings the Laughs in Bedtime Stories". Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment Interview, movieweb.com. April 06, 2009.

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• Sleepwalking?" "Nightmare?" "Homicidal psycho jungle cat!

  Bill Watterson

  Cat, Psycho, Nightmare

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• Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.

  e. e. cummings

  Hands, Mountain, Despair

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• The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful; But a silly song can help along Yours ever and sincerely: At least we know for certain that we are three old sinners, that this journey is much too long, that we want our dinners, and miss our wives, our books, our dogs, but have only the vaguest idea why we are what we are. To discover how to be human now Is the reason we follow this star.

  W. H. Auden

  Dog, Song, Stars

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• The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Sleep, Heart, Moon

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• LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.

  Jack Kerouac

  Winter, Cities, Feelings

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Home, Should Have, Guilt

  Jimmy Buffett (2002). “Tales from Margaritaville: Fictional Facts and Factual Fictions”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed meals a day than wild animals that have to go out into the jungle and hunt for opportunities in order to eat.

  Matt Taibbi

  Animal, Opportunity, Order

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• I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.

  Pete Seeger

  Proud, Hobos

  "When Pete Seeger Faced Down the House Un-American Activities Committee" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. January 28, 2014.

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• 'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Book, Cinema, Saws

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• We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Cake, Georgia, Bethlehem

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures?

  Walt Disney

  Nature, Lying, Flower

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• I don't believe in anything, Mother," I said. "You told Armand long ago that you believe you'll find answers in the great jungles and forests; that the stars will finally reveal a vast truth. But I don't believe in anything. And that makes me stronger than you think

  Anne Rice

  Mother, Stars, Believe

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.861, Ballantine Books

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• He thought of the jungle, already regrowing around him to cover the scars they had created. He thought of the tiger, killing to eat. Was that evil? And ants? They killed. No, the jungle wasn’t evil. It was indifferent. So, too, was the world. Evil, then, must be the negation of something man had added to the world. Ultimately, it was caring about something that made the world liable to evil. Caring. And then the caring gets torn asunder. Everybody dies, but not everybody cares.

  Karl Marlantes

  Caring, Men, Evil

  Karl Marlantes (2010). “Matterhorn”, p.264, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I was so urban-centric once. I did not want to see a patch of grass. I did not want to look at a tree. I didn't want to be anywhere near a sparrow, or a squirrel, or a pigeon, because I just wanted to be consumed by the asphalt-jungle aspect of New York.

  Carlos Dengler

  New York, Squirrels, Tree

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was about to look away when he reached across the seat, touched my jaw with his long, strong, beautiful fingers, and caressed my face. Being touched by Jericho Barrons with kindness makes you feel like you must be the most special person in the world. It’s like walking up to the biggest, most savage lion in the jungle, lying down, placing your head it its mouth and, rather than taking your life, it licks you and purrs.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Beautiful, Strong, Kindness

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Jul 06, 2015

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• When I give the go ahead, go ahead," Alyss said, the jungle gym having come to a stop less than a gwormmy-length from her face. What? the four General Doppels cried at once. Run when I say so.

  Frank Beddor

  Running, Giving, Four

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• [Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.

  Anne Carson

  Mother, Hurt, Government

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• Just fully being skillful involves total lack of inhibition. We are not afraid to be. We are not afraid to live. We must accept ourselves as being warriors. If we acknowledge ourselves as warriors, then there is a way in, because a warrior dares to be, like a tiger in the jungle.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Warrior, Way, Accepting

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.266, Shambhala Publications

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• And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to topic as if it was the only way to cross the jungle of his thoughts.

  Jodi Picoult

  Running, Animal, Rocks

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• What is an adventure? That depends on where you are starting from. Little girls in your country, they hide in the gap between the washing machine and the refrigerator and they make believe they are in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around them. Me and my sister, we used to hide in a gap in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around us, and make believe that we had a washing machine and a refrigerator. You live in a world of machines and you dream off things with beating hearts. We dream of machines, because we see where beating hearts have left us.

  Chris Cleave

  Girl, Dream, Country

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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