Reptiles Quotes

• The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

  William Blake

  Change, Wisdom, Men

  William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

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• Reptiles and amphibians are sometimes thought of as primitive, dull and dimwitted. In fact, of course, they can be lethally fast, spectacularly beautiful, surprisingly affectionate and very sophisticated.

  David Attenborough

  Beautiful, Dull, Amphibians

  "Life in Cold Blood". Documentary, 2008.

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• Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.

  David Bowie

  Friendship, Men

  Song: The Jean Genie, Album: Aladdin Sane, 1973

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• Love is like a reptile, you cut off its tail and it grows another one." Kiss Me Judas

  Will Christopher Baer

  Cutting, Kissing, Love Is

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• Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

  Julia Roberts

  Republican, Dictionary

  "Hollywood’s Celebrity Bush Bashers" by Michelle Malkin, capitalismmagazine.com. March 24, 2001.

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• When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?

  Saadi

  Sleep, Men, Appreciate

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• Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Ambition, Rocks, Eagles

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• The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Love, Kissing, Night

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• When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mouths, Sin, Sensuality

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• I have dogs, and it's no secret that I find reptiles interesting, but the thing about reptiles is that they really just wanna be left alone, and I understand them. It's, 'Don't pick me up, stop holding me, don't look at me, just leave me alone.' I have to admit, sometimes I feel like that.

  Nicolas Cage

  Dog, Interesting, Pick Me Up

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• I always had an affinity for lizards. I've always felt somewhat close to them. They're reptiles. I find myself feeling somewhat reptilian at times.

  Johnny Depp

  Feelings, Lizards, Affinity

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• Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest, of plants, of birds, of beasts, of reptiles, of fishes, of the rivers and the sea? When he goes into the woods the birds fly before him and he finds none; when he goes to the river bank, the fish and the reptile swim away and leave him alone. His secret is patience; he sits down, and sits still; he is a statue; he is a log.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sea, Rivers, Bird

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• I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

  Ralph Steadman

  Looks, Humans, Ifs

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• Humanity is actually under the control of dinosaur-like alien reptiles called the Babylon Brotherhood who must consume human blood to maintain their human appearance.

  David Icke

  Blood, Humanity, Brotherhood

  "What the devil's he on about? David Icke says Opening Ceremony was a secret Satanic ritual" by Simon Head, www.mirror.co.uk. August 1, 2012.

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• There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

  Edmund Burke

  Courage, Fear, Results

  Edmund Burke (1807). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.317

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• High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit — reptiles and eagles.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Animal, Eagles, Two

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• We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual, and perhaps cannot be wholly expelled; like the worms which, even in life and health, occupy our bodies. Possibly we may withdraw from it, but never change its nature. I fear that it may enjoy a certain health of its own; that we may be well, yet not pure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Health, Animal, Sensual

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.157, Xist Publishing

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• I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

  Nicolas Cage

  Animal, Whales, Bird

  "Nicolas Cage Only Eats Animals With 'Dignified' Manner in Sex" by celebrity-mania.com, May 19, 2010.

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• And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

  George Washington Cable

  Land, Silence, Mourning

  George Washington Cable (1988). “The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life”, p.9, University of Georgia Press

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• Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2539, Delphi Classics

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• An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.

  William Cowper

  Crush, Humanity, May

  William Cowper (1826). “Poems. With an introductory essay by J. Montgomery”, p.340

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• If you have birds, or if you're a herpetologist and raise reptiles - you look in those eyes, and there is nothing there that's human. I mean, they don't think like us, they don't see the world like us.

  Stephen R. Bissette

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

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• The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ignorance, Animal, Lions

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.

  John Muir

  Mother, Feet, Envy

  John Muir (1999). “To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875”

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• I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not care for that enormous brand of natural history which deals with invertebrates any more than why I do not care for brandied peaches. All I can say is that almost as soon as I began to read at all I began to like to read about the natural history of beasts and birds and the more formidable or interesting reptiles and fishes.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Animal, California, Interesting

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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