Frogs Quotes - Page 9

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Blow, Puff, Development

Algernon Charles Swinburne, Clyde Kenneth Hyder (1966). “Swinburne Replies: Notes on Poems and Reviews, Under the Microscope [and] Dedicatory Epistle”, p.72, Syracuse University Press

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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.

Nate Berkus

Baseball, Mother, Years

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The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.

Martin Luther

Religious, Mentor, Praying

Martin Luther (1892). “Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther”

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You just mingled saliva with the most beautiful boy ever to tread the hallways of Saint Pock's. Saliva. There's DNA in saliva. You're like carrying his cells in your mouth like one of those weird frogs that incubates its eggs in its cheeks

Laini Taylor

Beautiful, Boys, Dna

Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.31, Scholastic Inc.

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Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?

Rita Mae Brown

Thinking, Evolution, Pinnacle

Rita Mae Brown (2014). “Rubyfruit Jungle”, p.215, Bantam

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Regweld is really a fine wizard," he continued, patting the shoulder again. "And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog are not without merit; never mind the explosion! Alchemy shops can be replaced!

R. A. Salvatore

Horse, Ideas, Mind

R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Streams of Silver: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.117, Wizards of the Coast

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Frog said, 'I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' 'Oh,' said Toad, 'that makes a very good letter.'Then Frog and Toad went out onto the front porch to wait for the mail. They sat there, feeling happy together.

Arnold Lobel

Book, Waiting, Feelings

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Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!

Matsuo Basho

Dark, Unexpected, Sleepy

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Every animal on the planet attracts mates with the goal of reproduction. Frogs swell their bodies. Male gorillas beat their chests. Have you ever watched a male lobster rise up on the tips of his legs and snap his claws, demanding female attention? Attraction is the first element of all animal reproduction, humans included

Becca Fitzpatrick

Animal, Goal, Female

Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

Mark Twain

Long, Staring, Ifs

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Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste.
The biologist passes, the frog remains.

Jean Rostand

Facts, Grenouille, Biologist

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You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.

Arnold Lobel

Home, Cake, Willpower

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I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell.

Patricia Briggs

Dream, Garbage Cans, Middle

Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.137, Penguin

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The frogs hopping indoors agree that we are on a prison planet. They themselves are frog criminals that were convicted of doing frog crimes.

Philip K. Dick

Criminals, Prison, Crime

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Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of frogs' legs (especially if the frogs are decapitated) and that, on the other hand, any doctrine chiefly vouched for by the feelings of human beings (with heads on their shoulders) must be benighted and superstitious.

William James

Science, Thinking, Hands

1907 Pragmatism.

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You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.

Zhuangzi

Summer, Ocean, Ice

Zhuangzi, Herbert Allen Giles (1909). “Teachings and Sayings of Chuang Tzu”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don’t kick you around.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Self, Weakness, World

Paramahansa Yogananda (2015). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.147, Sheba Blake Publishing

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It's all very romantic," Gabriel said, and then frowned. "Or it would be, if my brother could get a word out without sounding like a choking frog. I fear he will not go down in history as one of the world's greatest wooers of women.

Cassandra Clare

Brother, Gabriel, World

Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1267, Simon and Schuster

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There's a flame of magic inside every stone & every flower, every bird that sings & every frog that croaks. There's magic in the trees & the hills & the river & the rocks, in the sea & the stars & the wind, a deep, wild magic that's as old as the world itself. It's in you too, my darling girl, and in me, and in every living creature, be it ever so small. Even the dirt I'm sweeping up now is stardust. In fact, all of us are made from the stuff of stars.

Kate Forsyth

Girl, Stars, Flower

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I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.

Deb Caletti

Water, People, Abuse

Deb Caletti (2011). “Stay”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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What happens to me if this slipper fits?" "I turn you into a handsome frog.

Judith McNaught

Hands, Fit, Turns

Judith McNaught (2016). “Double Standards”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Long Ago, Order, Buttons

FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Dec 10, 2012

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I suffer for birds and fireflies but not frogs, she said, and threw him across the room. Kaboom! Like a genie out of a samovar, a handsome prince arose in the corner of the bedroom.

Anne Sexton

Firefly, Bird, Suffering

Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out. But if you put that frog in a pot of tepid water and slowly warm it, the frog doesn't figure out what going on until it's too late. Boiled frog. It's just a metter of working by slow degrees.

Stephenie Meyer

Water, Degrees, Too Late

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And beyond the timeless meadows and emerald pastures, the rabbit holes and moss-covered oak and rowan trees and the "slippy sloppy" houses of frogs, the woodland-scented wind rushed between the leaves and blew around the gray veil that dipped below the fells, swirling up in a mist, blurring the edges of the distant forest. (View from Windermere in the Lake District)

Susan Branch

Lakes, Views, Wind

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