Crocodiles Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That is the way of the world.

  Alex Haley

  Boys, World, Mouths

  Alex Haley (2016). “Roots: The Saga of an American Family”, p.11, Da Capo Press

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• I looked down at my stomach. I grabbed at it, seeing how much fat I could lift up in a roll. "Don't worry," you said, one eye open again like a crocodile watching me. "You're beautiful." You tipped your head back. "Beautiful," you murmured. "Perfect.

  Lucy Christopher

  Beautiful, Eye, Perfect

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.115, Scholastic Inc.

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• Being a seasoned Londoner, Martin gave the body the "London once-over" - a quick glance to determine whether this was a drunk, a crazy or a human being in distress. The fact that it was entirely possible for someone to be all three simultaneously is why good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like BASE jumping or crocodile wrestling.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Sports, Crazy, Wrestling

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• My chauffer once told me that I would feel better in the morning, but when I woke up the two of us were still on a tiny island surrounded by man-eating crocodiles, and, as I'm sure you can understand, I didn't feel any better about it.

  Daniel Handler

  Morning, Feel Better, Men

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• Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough. The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Glowing, Giants

  Rick Riordan (2016). “Demigods and Magicians: Three Stories from the World of Percy Jackson and the Kane Chronicles”, p.8, Penguin UK

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• The vulture Nekhbet, who'd one possessed my gran (long story); the crocodile Sobek, who'd tried to kill my cat (longer story); and the lion goddess Sekhmet, whom we'd once vanished in hot sauce ( don't even ask) - page 9

  Rick Riordan

  Cat, Long, Hot Sauce

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• I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes,
  blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn,
  "Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm."

  Bob Dylan

  Marriage, Giving, Storm

  Song: Shelter From The Storm

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• I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet. Unfortunately there are countries who are still destroying it, but we really hope the conservation message rubs off in our film. Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.

  Steve Irwin

  Country, Optimistic, Environmental

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• When the tribal groups of december trade
  Seated in the figure of crocodile
  And songs are sung and deals discussed, are made
  Real. All... For more than one reason they smile.
  These codes are writ in secret, feeling fine
  To keep what's private to my self since we
  All must face our maker in our own ryhme
  And reasons for being ( from regrets) free
  So let the memory of your glory
  Be the tenderness heartfelt love starkly
  In the sky of my mind vast and pretty
  Evermore glittering simplicity
  Where in the truth of country grows sober
  And sunshines through fog to radiate wonder

  John Armstrong

  Country, Song, Nature

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• The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.

  Ehud Barak

  Israel, Giving, Cleansing

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• We can't behave like crocodiles and cry over spilled milk and broken eggs.

  Giovanni Trapattoni

  Eggs, Broken, Milk

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• I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.

  Brian Jacques

  Teacher, Believe, Writing

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• You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!

  Anton Chekhov

  Soul, Ordinary, Looks

  "The Boor" by Anton Chekhov, sc. viii, 1888.

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• Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Breathing, Dobermans, Favors

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• Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive, while timidity is not vulgar, if it be a characteristic of race or fineness of make. A fawn is not vulgar in being timid, nor a crocodile "gentle" because courageous.

  John Ruskin

  Courage, Race, Rude

  John Ruskin (1869). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual”, p.288

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• Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.

  Abraham Cowley

  Dog, Men, Roaring

  Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...”

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• One immense old lady has a family of lively young crocodiles running over her, evidently playing like a lot of kittens. The heavy musky smell they give off is most repulsive, but we do not rise up and make a row about this, because we feel hopelessly in the wrong in intruding into these family scenes uninvited.

  Mary Kingsley

  Running, Smell, Giving

  Mary Kingsley (2010). “Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons”, p.244, Cambridge University Press

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• Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Dream, Sea, Rivers

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.81, Faber & Faber

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• If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers. There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul.

  Yann Martel

  Fall, Animal, Ostriches

  Yann Martel (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.307, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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