Tigers Quotes - Page 19

• The tiger is humbled by memories of prey.

  Steven Erikson

  Memories, Prey

  "Memories of Ice". Book by Steven Erikson, 2001.

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• Said the tiger to the lily, Said the viper to the rose, Let us marry so our children May attain the double pose. With a feline half a flower With the attar in the asp We could institute a slaughter That would make a planet gasp.

  Nathalia Crane

  Children, Flower, Rose

  Nathalia Crane (1928). “Venus Invisible: And Other Poems”

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• One of the neighbors found Nasreddin scattering crumbs all around his house. "Why are you doing that?" he asked. "I'm keeping the tigers away," replied Nasreddin. "But there aren't any tigers around here," said the neighbor. "That's right," said Nasreddin. "You see how well it works?

  Nasreddin

  House, Neighbor, Crumbs

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• Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.

  Kalki Krishnamurthy

  Ninety Nine, Killing, Should

  "Kalki : Selected Stories" by Kalki Krishnamurthy, translated by Gowri Ramnarayan, ("The Tiger King"), 1999.

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• In most states, it's more difficult to get a license for your dog than it is to buy a big cat. Right now, there are more tigers in the state of Texas than in all of India.

  Tippi Hedren

  Dog, Cat, Texas

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• I was studying my 'Bold and Beautiful' script the other day, lying in a hammock, when one of my Siberian tigers walked up and grabbed it out of my hand - she wanted to play. See - teeth marks!

  Tippi Hedren

  Beautiful, Lying, Hands

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• You know, tigers are very unpredictable.

  Suraj Sharma

  Unpredictable, Knows

  "Suraj Sharma, ‘Life Of Pi’ Star, Introduces Himself To The Rest Of The World". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2012.

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• One has said that Christ excelled all other moralists in this, that He puts the padlock not upon the hand, but upon the heart. But He does not use the padlock at all, He renders such a thing unnecessary. He takes the tiger from the heart, and replaces it with the lamb.

  Edward Thomson

  Heart, Hands, Padlocks

  Edward Thomson (1872). “Evidences of Revealed Religion”, p.228

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• It's just an old alley cat that has followed us all the way home. It hasn't a star on its forehead, or a silky satiny coat. No proud tiger stripes, no dainty tread, no elegant velvet throat. It's a splotchy, blotchy city cat, not a pretty cat, a rough little bag of old bones. 'Beauty,' we shall call you. 'Beauty' come in.

  Eve Merriam

  Stars, Home, Cat

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• You people are out of your minds. Clemsons Walker Course is not only one of the nicest courses in the Southeast, its one of the nicest collegiate courses in the country. The Tiger Paw 17th hole is amazing!

  Mark Richards

  Country, People, Mind

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• As for those deserters, malcontents, radicals, incendiaries, the civil and uncivil disobedients among the young, SDS, PLP, Weathermen I and Weathermen II, the revolutionary action movement, the Black United Front, Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, Lions and Tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for a single platoon of the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Zoos, Hippie, Black

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company

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• I met Tiger Woods, and I looked in his eyes - and I saw Derek Jeter. They don't have to tell people they're good. They just prove it by the way they love the competition.

  Joe Torre

  Eye, People, Competition

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• They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers.

  Henry Noel Brailsford

  Kings, Men, Albania

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• Even if you finish the year at No. 1 in the world, and Tiger Woods has done this, you can still probably get better.

  Matt Kuchar

  Years, Get Better, Done

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• Unfortunately, we both lead incredibly hectic lives that force us to spend a majority of our time apart. I will always admire and respect Tiger. He and his beautiful family will always hold a special place in my heart.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Beautiful, Heart, Special

  "Lindsey Vonn and Tiger Woods end three-year relationship". www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2015.

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• With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.

  Yani Tseng

  Golf, Thinking, Get Better

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• My favorite video game of all time is called 'Black Tiger'. It's a Capcom Dungeons and Dragons game from 1987. I have the actual arcade version sitting in my office.

  Ernest Cline

  Dragons, Games, Office

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• Roger Federer and my boyfriend, Tiger Woods, inspire me. It's incredible what they've done in their respective sports, especially Roger. He is the nicest and humblest guy. You would never know that he's the best tennis player of all time. And Tiger is so mentally tough. He can block everything completely out and stay in the moment.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Sports, Block, Player

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• (Gray) Davis said yesterday that he is going to fight like a Bengal tiger, which I believe is also an endangered species.

  Jay Leno

  Believe, Fighting, Yesterday

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• I now accept that it is looking increasingly likely that Tiger Woods is, in fact, straight.

  Stephen Fry

  Woods, Facts, Accepting

  Twitter post from Dec 7, 2009

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• We're at risk of losing this iconic species for all time. Once it's stripped of its natural instincts, it's no longer a tiger. But there's a lot of species like that. The more intriguing thing, throughout Asia, a lot of these countries are selling off their jungle-and-forest rights for oil and for paper-and-pulp companies.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Country, Rights, Oil

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• If you can unify the public mind saving an iconic species like the tiger, like they did with the panda, that means you have to protect their habitat and everything that they hunt. And that means saving massive, thousands of acres for them to be able to roam and breed. So it's more of a land effort.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mean, Land, Effort

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• If you look at the gifted sportsman, like Tiger Woods, or Ryan Giggs, you can see how they have been built up to be so much more than one person could ever be.

  Liz Garbus

  Giggs, Looks, Woods

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• Tony the Tiger usually thinks that stuff is great.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger.

  Adolf Hitler

  Character, Atheism, Foxes

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf”, p.528, Adolf Hitler

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