Top 100 Crocodile Quotes
#1. I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes,
blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn,
"Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm."
Bob Dylan
#2. Give me a 15-ft. crocodile any day over a bee.
Bindi Irwin
#3. Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.
Barbara Kingsolver
#4. I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.
Steve Irwin
#5. Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or their place, until you've exterminated their resident monsters.
David Quammen
#6. We passed through glowering statues of monsters and gods whom I'd fought in person- the vulture Nekhbet, who'd once possessed my Gran (Long story); the crocodile Sobek, who'd tried to kill my cat (longer story); and the lion goddess Sekhmet, whom we'd once vanished with hot sauce (don't even ask)
Rick Riordan
#7. That's half of your trouble," muttered the crocodile. "You believe everything's true."
"That's because everything is," replied Mr. Bacchus.
Clive Barker
#8. My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he used to tell us about growing up near the Irrawaddy river and how one brother was eaten by a crocodile.
Jamie Cullum
#9. Even a thirsty man will not drink at the river where a crocodile waits.
Timothy G. Bax
#10. He imagines Owens' body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his agitation. A species of dwarf crocodile lazing beside an artery.
Lisa Lang
#11. ...but now that I know it's possible for a couple of zebras to outsmart a crocodile, life is starting to look up" -Joe
Sarah Weeks
#12. The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.
Steve Irwin
#13. No matter how long a log of wood remains in the river it does not become a crocodile
Jude Idada
#14. The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.
Pyotr Kapitsa
#15. I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.
J.M. Barrie
#16. If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last.
Ronald Reagan
#17. He broke through the wall of men surrounding Olivia - dim-witted fowl clustered about a dozing crocodile, as he saw it - and offered to take her home.
Loretta Chase
#18. Actually, I have this random fear, and it's of bees and wasps. Bees and wasps actually scare me just a little bit. I'd rather have a snake or a crocodile, yes ... I appreciate them, and I love them, but I have a slight fear.
Bindi Irwin
#19. I'm not a big scatology fan, unlike my sons, who can amuse themselves for an entire afternoon by repeating the phrase 'crocodile fart.' So I'll spare you from an overabundance of detail in this chapter. This chapter will be somewhat soft focus, like the TV camera in a Barbra Streisand interview.
A. J. Jacobs
#20. To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.
Ronald Reagan
#21. I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo.
Wyndham Lewis
#22. No matter how long a log stays in the water, it doesn't become a crocodile.
Philip K. Dick
#24. Just because one is spiritual doesn't mean that one doesn't like crocodile, cashmere. We live in a material world. We still experience these things. It doesn't mean to completely disregard them.
Tom Ford
#25. SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as ... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.
Ambrose Bierce
#26. OF course they did,' she snapped back. 'According to them, you single-handedly won a dozen battles, restored the Spanish throne, and infiltrated Napoleon's inner circle, after which you rode an elephant, wrestled a crocodile, and swam the Straits of Gibraltar.
Eloisa James
#27. A beautiful, intelligent woman with a body like Salome and a mouth like a saltwater crocodile.
Craig Johnson
#28. To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.
Peter Kreeft
#29. The first contraceptive was crocodile dung," she whispered. "The Egyptians used it in 2000 BC.
Jill Shalvis
#30. However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.
Ousmane Sembene
#31. That lucky fucking inanimate animal. "I want to grow up to be a stuffed crocodile.
Lauren Blakely
#32. Whatever it was, it was the size of a cow, and looked like what you'd get if you somehow managed to cross a beaver and a crocodile, looked at the results, and decided what your new monster really needed was a bunch of extra teeth.
Seanan McGuire
#34. The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.
P. W. Botha
#35. The vulture Nekhbet, who'd one possessed my gran (long story); the crocodile Sobek, who'd tried to kill my cat (longer story); and the lion goddess Sekhmet, whom we'd once vanished in hot sauce ( don't even ask) - page 9
Rick Riordan
#36. I have the best daddy in the whole world, and I will miss him every day. When I see a crocodile, I will always think of him, and I know that Daddy made this zoo so everyone could come and learn to love all the animals.
Bindi Irwin
#37. Thoes prepared to shed copious floods of crocodile tears ...
Stephen King
#38. they knew what we're doing for them, they'd kiss our feet. But mentally they are closer to the crocodile and the hippopotamus than to you or me. That's why we decide what is good for them and have them sign those contracts.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#39. Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic?
Anna Lee
#40. I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.
Louis Leakey
#41. "Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#42. The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile
Louis Kahn
#43. Shabelsky: I'd go into the flames of hell, into the jaws of the crocodile, just so as not to stay here. I am bored.
I've become dulled from boredom. I've got on everyone's nerves. You leave me at home so she isn't bored alone, but I've made her life hell, I've eaten her up!
Anton Chekhov
#44. I got a film fairly quickly and felt like I was on a roll. I would walk into auditions sounding like Crocodile Dundee, thinking, 'This is going to be a novelty for them.' Then I realised that there are a million other Australians here, and I should just shut up.
Chris Hemsworth
#45. Statistically there's only one crocodile-related human fatality per year in the whole of Australia.
Steve Irwin
#46. They watched as the Shaw brothers played tug of war with a crocodile over what Travis would guess was a nine-point buck. The buck was still kicking, too, but that didn't stop the brothers or the croc.
"I'm sensing the crazy gene, hoss," Donnie mumbled.
"Ya think?
Shelly Laurenston
#47. The crocodile doesn't harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.
Linda Hogan
#48. You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!
Anton Chekhov
#49. Love is a crocodile just above the water line waiting to attack the innocent herbivore of my freedom.
Dov Davidoff
#50. I had a dream about you. You was a crocodile and i was always looking for you with fear. Your teeth were alabaster and your skin green as grass. Unfortunate you had already a girlfriend. And i hoped she finish like a handbag. I love you from my all reptile heart, which is poikilothermic.
Kattie Belgar
#51. Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep ... in a giant blender.
Homer
#52. The novel, arguably the author's best, had a disquieting power, like a sleeping crocodile.
Roberto Bolano
#53. I was raised on science as other people are raised on God, or Gods, or the crocodile.
Lily King
#54. Right," I said. "So the baboon, the crocodile ... any other pets I should know about?"
Amos thought for a moment. "Visible ones? No, I think that's it.
Rick Riordan
#55. A great man of science ... knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg does not turn into a crocodile and two or three other little things."
Charles Kingsley
#56. Oh, devil, devil!
If that the earth could teem with woman's tears,
Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.
Out of my sight!
William Shakespeare
#57. How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale!
Lewis Carroll
#58. Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough.
The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse.
Rick Riordan
#59. The Allegator is the same, as the Crocodile, and differs only in Name.
John Lawson
#60. I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
Zahi Hawass
#61. The crocodile on the bus goes
snap, snap, snap
Jane Cabrera
#62. Look, man, I don't know who you are, but that crocodile has been terrorizing Long Island for weeks. I take that kind of personal, as this is my home turf. A few days ago, it ate one of our pegasi.
Rick Riordan
#63. After 'Crocodile Dundee,' I turned down lots of stuff, most of it where I'd play the girlfriend of some funny man.
Linda Kozlowski
#64. The worst part of directing is always seeing the first assembly. It's devastating. It really is. It's like going into the delivery room and you can't wait to see your baby, and it's a crocodile.
David Ayer
#65. I could sit and watch nature documentaries with Jenks and the kids the rest of the night if I wanted. And trust me, watching a dozen pixies scream as a crocodile chomped on a zebra was something not to be missed. They invariably cheered for the crocodile, not the zebra.
Kim Harrison
#66. Helping to match people to the book that would change their life, or make them fall in love, or get over a love affair gone wrong. And for the children, she could show them where to dive into a crocodile-infested river, or fly through the stars, or open the door of a wardrobe...
Jenny Colgan
#67. Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.
Steve Irwin
#68. Like the crocodile, he strikes always at the weakest spot.
George Orwell
#69. They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.
Winston Churchill
#70. A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.
Winston Churchill
#71. Niten's hand moved and the ragged end of the broken katana caught the crocodile in the center of the chest. Eyes wide, mouth gaping in surprise, it staggered back into the fog. "You talk too much," Niten whispered.
Michael Scott
#72. I am the soul brother to everything that lives, to the giraffe and to the crocodile as much as to man.
Alain De Botton
#73. EBay may be a shark in the ocean, but I'm a crocodile in the Yangtze River. If we fight in the ocean, we lose, but if we fight in the river, we win,
Jack Ma
#74. See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.
Bill Haley
#75. We must either rearrange this unstable universe or we must exit from here! If we are not a mosquito or a crocodile, we must either dry out the marsh or exit from it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#76. the fallen of the baboon into the river is the risen of the joy of the crocodile. Though the crocodile becomes happy, it conceals its joy until it deploys all its necessary deft and strength to take captive of the Baboon
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#77. Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.
Ambrose Bierce
#78. Elsa had looked back at the girl in the only way one can look back at someone who has just pointed at a Gryffindor scarf and said, "Ugly bloody scarf." Not totally dissimilar to how one would look at someone who had just seen a horse and gaily burst out, "Crocodile!
Fredrik Backman
#79. I wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter.
Shakira
#80. When the East Timor conflict broke out, when they gained independence, the militia killed a lot of East Timorese people. And their sacred totem is the crocodile. They believe that their island is actually a solidified crocodile, so it has sacred status.
Steve Irwin
#81. Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.
Winston Churchill
#82. Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last. At the moment, the biggest crocodile in the world is Microsoft, and everybody is busy sucking up to it.
John Naughton
#83. Man is too near all kinds of beasts,
a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
Abraham Cowley
#84. I've eaten lion, leopard, crocodile, python. I don't recommend lion. It tastes exactly like when a tomcat comes into your house and sprays. Snake and crocodile are great - a cross between lobster and chicken.
Wilbur Smith
#85. You should make a sad face when you meet a crocodile
Ruth Krauss
#86. It's simple, Miss Philpot. This is one of God's early models, and He decided to give the subsequent ones smaller eyes." I raised my eyebrows. "Do you mean God rejected it?" "I mean God wanted a better version - the crocodile we know now - and replaced it.
Tracy Chevalier
#87. Is this how you repay my goodness
with badness?" cried the boy. "Of course," said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. "That is the way of the world.
Alex Haley
#88. I am trying different styles, and while you can't climb a tree or jump on a crocodile in a dress, it is nice to get dressed up every now and then and kind of walk away from the khaki for a moment.
Bindi Irwin
#89. A doll with skin like that isn't going to mess it up with a revolver shot. [ ... ] Revolvers are meant for crocodile-skins like ours.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#90. Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.
Steve Irwin
#91. You have only to creep into a secluded corner or into a crocodile, to shut your eyes, and you immediately devise a perfect millennium for mankind.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#93. Eating next to a twenty-foot-long crocodile took some getting used to, but Philip was well trained. He only ate bacon, stray waterfowl, and the occasional invading monster.
Rick Riordan
#94. Love is the crocodile in the river of desire.
Bhartrihari
#95. [...] but personally if I never drink another crocodile pee I shall be a happy man.'
'Crocodile pee?'
'I always assumed that that was the main ingredient in Gatorade, but I may be wrong.
M.J. Trow
#96. Have you killed a man, drowned a crocodile, hunted a wolf, or raped an abuser? Stop pretending you love someone.
M.F. Moonzajer
#97. Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
Jorge Luis Borges
#98. I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating.
Tori Amos
#99. When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that its one breath could dissolve him in a sea of a thousand charms and delights; but if one looks into the soul
it's nothing but a common crocodile.
Anton Chekhov
#100. When I went to Amazonia, l went as the field doctor for biologists studying crocodile behavior. There's no way humans should have any encounters with crocodiles. You should stay away from them!
Kenneth Kamler
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