Snakes Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. It’s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people won’t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.

  Jack Gilbert

  Beautiful, Girl, Country

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.382, Knopf

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• Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

  Alexander Pope

  Song, Lasts, Length

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 354

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• My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, 'Are these snakes poisonous?' and 'But you look much too young to be a police officer.

  Cassandra Clare

  Police, Looks, Phrases

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.930, Simon and Schuster

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• I put a What Would Jesus Do bracelet on my Jewish friend's wrist and it burned his skin. He threw it on the ground, it turned into a serpent, we both started laughing. We left it there, we hate snakes. We think they're slimy, even though we know they're not.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Jesus, Hate

  "Completely Serious". Comedy album by Daniel Tosh, June 17, 2007.

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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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• It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power and a dim idea of how to use it to attempt one. Before you knew it, a three-headed Slavonic god was wreaking havoc in downtown Atlanta, the skies were raining winged snakes, and SWAT was screaming for more ammo.

  Ilona Andrews

  Rain, Atlanta, Sky

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• Yesterday is skin on snake, to be shed many times.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Yesterday, Skins, Shed

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.230, Dell

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• Then I glanced at the ring on my finger. The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from—but where did all you zombies come from? I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once—and you all went away. So I crawled into bed and whistled out the light. You aren’t really there at all. There isn’t anybody but me—Jane—here alone in the dark. I miss you dreadfully!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Dark, Light, Forever

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• I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf and try to suck out the snake poison.

  John Green

  Morning, Trying, Poison

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.75, A&C Black

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• The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a point, then to nothing. Pride is such a snake, and envy, and greed. Love, however, is a hoop, a wheel, that rolls on forever. We are rescued by those whom we have rescued. The saved become the saviors of their saviors.

  Dean Koontz

  Hate, Pride, Circles

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.107, Bantam

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• She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid through it, silent death. It was a place where snakes could slither and bogs could suck the shoe right off your foot. And it was a place, she thought, that went bright and beautiful with the twinkling of fireflies, where wildflowers thrived in the shade and the stingy light. Where an eagle could soar like a king. There was no beauty without risk. No life without it.

  Nora Roberts

  Beautiful, Summer, Kings

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• Beggin' your pardon, miss, but I was told you be the one to help me cross on to the next world." "Who told you this?" His eyes widen. "A fearsome creature with a head full of snakes!" "You musn't fear her," I say, taking the man's hand and leading his toward the river. "She's as tame as a pussycat. She'd probably lick your hand given the chance." "Didn't seem harmless," he whispers, shuddering. "Yes, well, things are not always as they appear, sir, and we must learn to judge for ourselves.

  Libba Bray

  Eye, Men, Hands

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