Frogs Quotes - Page 6

• I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.

  S. E. Hinton

  School, Might, Oh Well

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• A frog in a well does not know the great sea.

  Chris Bradford

  Sea, Doe, Wells

  Chris Bradford (2010). “The Ring of Earth (Young Samurai, Book 4): The Ring of Earth”, p.58, Penguin UK

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• Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of birds and 'gators, of life in every puddle and pond and knothole and leaf. I Travel By Night

  Robert R. McCammon

  Night, Rose, Bird

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• Old pond, leap-splash - a frog.

  Matsuo Basho

  Ponds, Leap

  Matsuo Basho, “The Old Pond”

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• As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.

  Paul Schullery

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Paul Schullery (2008). “Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir”, p.4, UNM Press

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• A decade or so ago, all over the world, cinemas underwent one of those prince-into-frog mutations, and became, instead popcorn-restaurants, which offered the option of visual diversions for diners.

  Kevin Myers

  Hollywood, Mutation, Popcorn

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• people talk about 'sex' as though it hopped about by itself, like a frog!

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Sex, People

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• The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.

  Jean Rostand

  Biologist

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• I will be very sad when global warming and toxins kill off all the toads and frogs and salamanders. Here's hoping we, as humans, figure out a way to be less stupid.

  Moby

  Stupid, Toxins, Toads

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 5, 2014.

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• Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Sleep, Eye, Curves

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books

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• A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own learning.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Summer, Ocean, Ice

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• Cogg would suddenly stand stock still. "Listen," he would say. Some feeble quack would be heard from the willow beyond the pond. "That's an easy one to tell. The frog-pippit." Then he would add, As a safety measure, "As I believe they call it in these parts."

  Stephen Potter

  Believe, Safety, Bird

  Stephen Potter (1962). “Three-upmanship: The theory & practice of gamesmanship: Some notes on lifemanship [and] One-upmanship”

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• Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

  Wallace Stevens

  Nature, Butterfly, Men

  Title of poem (1923)

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• Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Firsts, Ifs

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• It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince was a nursery fairy tale, but when we got to college they told us that a frog turning into a prince was science.

  Ron Carlson

  College, Taught Us, Fairy Tale

  Ron Carlson, Ed Decker (2003). “Fast Facts® on False Teachings”, p.47, Harvest House Publishers

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• Of course, certain religious expressions are fine. If a tribe of Aqualishes wants to boil rhino horns in frog saliva on the National Mall to honor their deity, we'd have a commemorative postage stamp ready by next December. But let a Christian mention the baby Jesus to a kindergarten class and the ACLU wants an exorcism.

  Kathleen Parker

  Christian, Baby, Religious

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• Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants.

  Woody Allen

  Cutting, Guy, Intellectual

  "Sleeper". www.imdb.com. 1973.

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• In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!

  Ron Carlson

  School, Taught, Facts

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• There are two kinds of women: those who marry princes and those who marry frogs. The frogs never become princes, but it is an acknowledged fact that a prince may very well, in the course of an ordinary marrige, gradually, at first almost imperceptibly, turn into a frog. Happy the woman who after twenty-five years still wakes up beside the prince she fell in love with.

  Stephen Mitchell

  Years, Two, Twenties

  Stephen Mitchell (1999). “The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults”, Harmony

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• I got a smile that'll make the mirror crack,
  And I seem to stay under clouds that's pitch black.
  So when it rains, it pours, and when it pours, I'm soaked.
  I contracted lung cancer from third hand smoke,
  And I'm like the frog that's dying to be a prince,
  The boy who cried wolf and no one was convinced.
  The man who hit lotto and lost his ticket,
  In a rainstorm...and struck by lightning trying to get it.

  GZA

  Cancer, Rain, Rap

  Song: Life Is a Movie

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• EPMD in effect, I'm clockin' mad green
  Like Kermit the Frog, sloppy like Boss Hog,
  Girl was runnin' wild...ate her like a corn dog.

  PMD

  Girl, Dog, Rap

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• I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Men, Blind

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud forests, rain forests, ice pack, boreal forests, coral reefs, forests of deciduous trees, conifer and palm.

  Eban Goodstein

  Rain, Home, Butterfly

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• The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.

  James McBride

  Jesus, Men, Finest

  James McBride (2006). “The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.132, Penguin

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• If The Muppet Show had a basketball team, the score would always be Frog 99, Chaos 98.

  Jerry Juhl

  Basketball, Team, Chaos

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