Top 72 Alligator Quotes
#1. It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing his latest banjo symphony, having just completed another movie and acclaimed, best-selling novel.
Karen Russell
#2. Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
Dan Rather
#3. Do you realize we're very probably seeing something that no one has seen for centuries?"
"Yes, it's a bloody flying alligator setting fire to my city!" shouted Vimes.
Terry Pratchett
#5. Be the alligator girl. Be whatever your dreams and your luck will let you be. Wear your green cornflakes with pride. Snarl at the crowds, and do your best to make them flinch. Give them a quarter's worth of wonder.
Dolly Parton
#6. ECassChoosesPikachu: Patrick's new favorite joke: What do you call an alligator in a vest? An "investigator" HA!
JoseyInHeels to ECassChoosesPikachu: The kid needs better jokes
SeanCassinova to ECassChoosesPikachu: MY NEPHEW IS BRILLIANT!
L. H. Cosway
#7. Paper balls? You were throwing balled up paper at an alligator?
Gini Koch
#8. You know you're in the Lowcountry when the steering wheel in your old red pick up is slippery from humidity, the news on the radio is all about the projected path of the latest Atlantic hurricane and the road kill you narrowly miss smearing further is a five foot long alligator.
Natasha Boyd
#9. Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks, the zoo or animal control.
Janice Hahn
#10. The housekeeper had been there that afternoon. I could always tell because the sheets on the bed would be tucked in so tight, trying to get them out was like wrestling an alligator.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#11. Behind her warm facade radiating empathy and understanding, there was an aggressive, bad- tempered bitch, putting up endless walls of goodness to conceal her rage and resentment toward the entire world. She was like an alligator in a velvet jumpsuit.
Zygmunt Miloszewski
#12. All I could think of was the phrase my dad's father used to say to him when I was a kid, "Don't let your alligator mouth overload your hummingbird ass," and I think I'd done just that.
Brynn Myers
#13. Louisiana has a larger alligator population than any other state. Just over a million."
"Over a million!" exclaimed Amelia with astonishment.
Linda Weaver Clarke
#14. Little bucktoothed alligator
ready to taste my bills.
Make something suffer.
Make something stick.
B.J. Ward
#15. I'm also fascinated by the difference between terror and fear. Fear says, "Do not actually put your hand in the alligator," while terror says, "Avoid Florida entirely because alligators exist.
Mira Grant
#16. The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.
Annie Dillard
#17. It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.
George Foreman
#18. On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he's now my golf bag.
Bob Hope
#19. Then a very large komodo breaks into view, spooked by our trespass, and scrambles up the vertical face of the bluff, like an alligator scaling a four-story building.
David Quammen
#20. When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.
Benicio Del Toro
#21. Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing a shirt with a picture of a little golfer on it.
Buddy Hackett
#22. The only thing worse than living inside an alligator had to be living inside a decrepit one.
Robert Dunbar
#23. THE ALLIGATOR IS AN ANACHRONISM THAT CAN EAT YOU!
Karen Russell
#24. There is no point in delaying crying. Sadness is like having a vicious alligator around. You can ignore it for only so long before it begins devouring things and you have to pay attention.
Lemony Snicket
#25. The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.
Mike Pence
#26. Where was I when the rockets came to life
And carried you away into the alligator sky
Even though, I'll never know what's up ahead
I'm never lettin' go, I'm never lettin' go!
Owl City
#27. He's like the kid they use down in Louisiana as alligator bait. They tie him to the end of a rope and he walks out into the swamp. All the kid can do is hope they jerk the rope back in time.
Michael Levine
#28. I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust [tree].
Davy Crockett
#29. When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down there. We spent two days dancing to Zydeco music, eating fried alligator ... It was one of the craziest festivals I've ever been to in my life, but I loved it.
Alexander Skarsgard
#30. I'm Southern, so alligator tail is pretty interesting and yummy.
LeAnn Rimes
#31. Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems.
Mary Oliver
#32. Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.
Ambrose Bierce
#33. She sat in her chair and looked around the room. What should she take with her? The antique chatrang board her predecessor had given her? Her mummified baby alligator, which she had on the theory that every sorcerer's lair should have a mummified reptile of some kind?
Tim Pratt
#34. See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.
Bill Haley
#35. pony, mashed potato, alligator, watusi, twist, jerk.
A.V. Club
#36. I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to be artists, not rising, emerging, amateur, beginning, but the real thing.
Jack White
#37. Is the rain getting the mud off of me?"
She tilted her head. A hint of laughter crept into her eyes. "Actually it's running down your face in a rather dramatic fashion. I think you'd even manage to scare an alligator."
"Before you start laughing at me, you might take a look at yourself.
Christine Feehan
#38. If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the universal earth.
Davy Crockett
#39. Okay, maybe it didn't get that close and it didn't move that much, but it still came toward me, and if you've been chased by an alligator at any distance or speed, I don't think people should get all 'But how far was it? And how fast was it going?
Maureen Johnson
#40. I have tested my nerve by reaching a little too closely toward a lengthy alligator on the Gulf Coast and a saucer-sized tarantula in a Houston car park.
Jim Crace
#41. You clearly are a remarkable man," she said, "to travel with such creatures. The rooster is much more than he seems, as is the alligator. But, of course, you know that." Homer
Homer Hickam
#42. Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.
Cordell Hull
#43. Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harassing that woman.
Homer
#44. The calluses on your feet in space will eventually fall off. So, the bottoms of your feet become very soft like newborn baby feet. But the top of my feet develop rough alligator skin because I use the top of my feet to get around here on space station when using foot rails.
Scott Kelly
#45. I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.
Karen Russell
#47. I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.
Luther Allison
#48. A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.
Homer
#49. If I was good each week, my father would take me to a different pet store each Saturday. I had a snake, horny toads, turtles, lizards, rabbits, guinea pigs ... I kept my alligator in the bathtub until it got too big.
Dick Van Patten
#50. What's an alligator?" Kaz asked. He'd never seen a figure like the one Claire projected onto the cabinet wall. "It's a reptile that lives in Florida," Claire explained. Kaz didn't know what Florida was, either.
Dori Hillestad Butler
#51. It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated in jars. The air smelled of a limited life expectancy.
Terry Pratchett
#52. When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp.
Jerry Reed
#53. Zain poured skimmed milk over Weetabix, throwing in a handful of cashew nuts to add flavour. A glass of grapefruit juice to go with it, and green tea. He tried to avoid caffeine. Maybe the green pills were loaded with it, anyway. Alligator balls, snake venom and caffeine. He
Alex Caan
#54. I don't do romance, in the same way I don't do heroin Russian roulette, or nude alligator wrestling. I consider all of the above self-destructive, and demeaning and these are things up with which I will not put.
D.D. Barant
#55. Aware that a man has no more chance with a woman, armed with the offensive and defensive weapons of tongue, tears, nails, and bamboo, than in a river with an alligator, I, for the first time in my life, acted prudently, and fled the fight.
Edward John Trelawny
#56. Sometimes this was much harder than trying to get an alligator in a suitcase.
Micheal Rivers
#57. The room inside looked like the mouth of an alligator - gaped wide open to swallow something down.
Zora Neale Hurston
#58. You are a Seminole alligator wrestler. Half naked, with your two bare hands, you hold and fight a sentence's head while its tail tries to knock you over.
Annie Dillard
#59. I was beginning to think I had let 'my alligator mouth overload my jaybird ass.
Hal Needham
#60. 'Alligator' was the first record that anyone paid attention to, and it seemed like it was the screamy songs that got us that attention.
Matt Berninger
#61. Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases.
Russell Baker
#62. You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.
Phyllis Diller
#63. Every day I'd come home after school, pop the hood of my mom's car, put alligator clips on the battery, and wire into the house and go play on my computer. If I used it for too long, I'd wear down the car battery, and my mom would be all mad at me the next day.
Ryan Holmes
#64. Nervousness hates a vacuum. 826 alligator. Nervousness will blurt right out with something, anything, to kill the silence. 839 alligator. Unless nervousness is kept busy doing something more useful. Like counting. 842 alligator.
Lauren Beukes
#65. Gators are just something you have to accept where I come from. Most don't go anywhere near the houses, even though there are lots of delicious children and dogs there. Every once in a while, though, an alligator has a lightbulb moment and decides to take a stroll and see the world a bit.
Maureen Johnson
#66. Albert made of solid alligator - he heavy.
Walt Kelly
#67. My mom was beautiful; she was supposed to be the original Jane in the original Tarzan movie. They asked her to put her foot in the water and there was an alligator in there, and she wouldn't put her foot in the water.
Dr. John
#68. I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.
Karen Russell
#69. I'm scared to death that I'll never be afraid.
Owl City
#70. I haf the sownd of more words butt i coud not remember the shaps of the letters.
Karen Russell
#71. When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.
Karen Russell
#72. We keep giggling, happy and nervous, tickled by an incomplete innocence. We both sense that some dark joke is being played on us, even if we can't quite grasp the punch line.
Karen Russell
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