Snakes Quotes - Page 14

• The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Real, Oil, Miracle

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.234, Penguin

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• A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

  Edward Abbey

  Zoos, Earth Day, Would Be

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, 'Do you hate me?' The white man is in no moral position to accuse anyone else of hate! Why, when all of my ancestors are snake-bitten, and I'm snake-bitten, and I warn my children to avoid snakes, what does that snake sound like accusing me of hate-teaching?

  Malcolm X

  Children, Hate, Teaching

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.248, Ballantine Books

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• As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mother, Heart, Son

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• All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its story. It wants to dissolve like a thousand writhing snakes that with a flick of kindness become harmless strands of rope.

  Geneen Roth

  Kindness, Compassion, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Aug 07, 2010

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• A thin line between the haters and the ones who love us.
  A thinner line from the freedom and the foul judges,
  In the streets where the snake niggas hold grudges.

  Intelligent Hoodlum

  Rap, Judging, Hip Hop

  Song: Calm Down

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• The snake, the rat, the cat, the dog...
  How you gonna see 'em if you livin' in the fog?

  DMX

  Dog, Rap, Cat

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• We got to stay awake for all these lizards and snakes;
  Some of them come as friends, some of them come as Jakes.

  Q-Tip

  Rap, Hip Hop, Jake

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• It's a thin line between paper and hate,
  Friends and snakes, nine millis and thirty-eights,
  Hell or the pearly gates...I was destined to come,
  Predicted, blame God, He blew breath in my lungs.

  Nas

  Hate, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Hate Me Now, Album: I Am..., 1999

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• People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Night, Reality, Thinking

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• Even in these mercifully emancipated decades, many people still seem quite seriously alarmed at the prospect of sleeping away from officially consecrated campsites, with no more equipment than they can carry on their backs. When pressed, they babble about snakes or bears or even, by God, bandits. But the real barrier, I'm sure, is the unknown.

  Colin Fletcher

  Real, Sleep, People

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• Every freak has a mother. When I met Marilyn Manson I was struck by how nice he was. People are rarely as weird as you anticipate. Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.

  Boy George

  Mother, Nice, Book

  "This much I know" by Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2002.

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• Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Animal

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• I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes.

  Don Bluth

  Dragons, Littles, Rooms

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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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• I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.

  Kristin Davis

  Mean, Pet, Insane

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• Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Science, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2387, Delphi Classics

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• I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

  Jessica Savitch

  Lifelong, Phobia

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• A wonder tale can be truer than true," I said. I had learned (...) that the deepest kind of truth can be found in the strangest and wildest of stories. One may not meet a fire-breathing dragon on the way to the well. One may not encounter an army of toothed snakes in the woodshed. That does not make the wisdom in those tales any less real.

  Juliet Marillier

  Real, Army, Fire

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• As Steve draws me closer to the band, all I can see is a frenzied mass of seething, writhing people, like a many-headed sea snake, grinding, waving their arms, stamping their feet, jumping. No rules, just energy - so much energy, you could harness it; I bet you could power Portland for a decade. It is more than a wave. It's a tide, an ocean of bodies.

  Lauren Oliver

  Ocean, Jumping, Sea

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• Goodness! Golly! Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Don't touch her! Grab her! Move closer! Run away! Don't move! Kill the snake! Leave it alone! Give it some food! Don't let it bite her! Lure the snake away! Here, snakey! Here, snakey snakey!

  Daniel Handler

  Running, Moving, Blessed

  "The Reptile Room". Book by Daniel Handler, 1999.

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• Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dog, Cat, Thinking

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• The next day she’d examined her red satin sandals and with a frown said, “I’m thinking about buying two snakes.” His are you kidding me “Why?” had caused her to shrug. “I’d name them Leftie and Rightie and when they were big enough, they’d become Mamma’s boots.

  Gena Showalter

  Thinking, Names, Two

  Gena Showalter (2011). “Dark Taste of Rapture”, p.390, Simon and Schuster

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• What’s happened so far? Coyotes evolved limited powers of speech. Worms developed teeth and became aggressive and territorial. Snakes grew wings and developed a new form of metamorphosis. Some of us developed powers. So far there’s been a lot of strange, but not a lot of stupid. This, though, this”—she aimed her finger at the carcass of the monstrosity—“is just stupid.

  Michael Grant

  Stupid, Wings, Teeth

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• That earns him a smack with my book bag. "Ow." He clutches his arm. "What do you have in there? Books?" A grin snakes across his face. "I like my women feisty." He adds, "I like my broken.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Book, Broken, Add

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