Snakes Quotes - Page 11

• It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right now, it will probably be a long, long time before the yard gets overrun by lions and snakes.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Long, Yards, Mowing

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• Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer live the majority of all the plant species, the vast majority of the insects, most of the strange ... quadrupeds, all of the great and most of the poisonous snakes and large lizards, most of the brilliantly colored sea fishes, and the strangest and most gorgeously plumaged of the birds.

  David Fairchild

  Cancer, Science, Sea

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• I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes
  of snakes that run in frightful coils watching for their prey. I believe
  it was born with the yelping, howling, growling and snarling of wild beasts...
  I despise it, I defy it, and I hate it.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Running, Hate, Believe

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1906). “Famous Speeches, Complete ...”

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• Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who as a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all.

  J. C. Ryle

  Hands, Idols, Heaven

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• I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House

  Deval Patrick

  Names, House, St Patrick

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• Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. Other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. Pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where Hannibal himself cannot go. But the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like.

  Thomas Harris

  Wrestling, Dark, Echoes

  Thomas Harris (2007). “Hannibal Rising”, Dell

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• The first time I showed the tattoo it was big news in the newspaper. 'She has a tattoo with a snake.' It's not a snake!

  Li Na

  Tattoo, News, Firsts

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• But I'm in favor of every religion with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he's got coming to him.

  Earl Long

  Favors, Providence, Exception

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• The skin of a python is no less precious to the snake than fur is to the fox.

  Maneka Gandhi

  Python, Skins, Fur

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• Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain.

  Thomas Huxley

  Lying, Records, Bleeding

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

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• Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.

  William Christopher Handy

  Home, Wind, Rivers

  William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

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• Tim Tebow's like the snake doctor for Florida. Gotta stop the snake doctor, keep the Gators from moving the ball....this time he snaked Alabama with a play action pass.

  Gary Danielson

  Moving, Doctors, Florida

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• It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts.

  Kelly Brook

  Thinking, Skins, Boots

  "Kelly Brook fashion verdict: Model bares skin to support Peta - but is floaty dress better?". www.mirror.co.uk. September 15, 2011.

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• I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.

  Bear Grylls

  Home, Healthy, Trying

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• Do I still think there will be a day when all the wrongs are made right, when our souls find the completion they are looking for?  I do.  But when all things are made right, it won’t be because of some preacher or snake-oil salesman or politician or writer making promises in his book.  I think, instead, this will be done by Jesus.  And it will be at a wedding.  And there will be a feast.

  Donald Miller

  Jesus, Book, Thinking

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.206, Thomas Nelson

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• Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.

  Kate Seredy

  Crush, Moving, Heart

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• She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled newborn babies, as blind puppies, as sun-starved newly hatched baby snakes. She left us a dark Gulf and salt-burned land. She left us to learn to crawl. She left us to salvage. Katrina is the mother we will remember until the next mother with large, merciless hands, committed to blood, comes.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Mother, Baby, Cutting

  Jesmyn Ward (2012). “Salvage the Bones”, p.262, A&C Black

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• The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.

  Zhuangzi

  Heart, Eye, Wind

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• A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Water, Hot, Pajamas

  'Snake' (1923)

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• Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Gliding, Purpose

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.122, Harvard University Press

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• We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.

  Glenn Danzig

  Circles, Skulls, Skins

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• From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

  Margot Asquith

  War, Men, Expression

  Margot Asquith (1963). “Autobiography”

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• Say, "I can do everything ." "Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it."

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Poison

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• The morning woods were utterly new. A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appeared and vanished on the path, since a third of the trees I walked under were still bare, a third spread a luminous haze wherever they grew, and another third blocked the sun with new, whole leaves. The snakes were out - I saw a bright, smashed one on the path - and the butterflies were vaulting and furling about; the phlox was at its peak, and even the evergreens looked greener, newly created and washed.

  Annie Dillard

  Strong, Morning, Butterfly

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• Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.

  Toni Morrison

  Night, Differences, Making A Difference

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