Kangaroo Quotes

#1. As far as one knows of heroines from history. I'm capable of a great jerk, an effort, and then a relaxation - but steady every-day goodness is beyond me. I must be a moral kangaroo!

Elizabeth Gaskell

#2. Whenever a kangaroo puts his paws on your shoulder and gives you a big grin, that is the time to leave.

Will Cuppy

#3. Yeah, well, when they say 'You know it's a long way, don't you?' what they really mean is: 'You know it'd be faster if you just rode a kangaroo, don't you?

Elle Lothlorien

#4. Evolution is a snail, but Revolution is a kangaroo; one crawls, other jumps!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. Horton, the kangaroo has sent Vlad!' Vlad? I know two Vlads. One is a cute little bunny that brings me cookies. The other is bad Vlad. Which Vlad?' Which one do you think?' Bad Vlad?' Good call.

Dr. Seuss

#6. Ben often comes here. It's some kind of kangaroo graveyard. He likes to collect kangaroo bones. What can I say? It's just something Stink Collectors do.

J.E. Fison

#7. The kangaroo has a double penis - one for week days and one for holidays.

Henry Miller

#8. He (Ozzie Smith) plays like he's on a mini-trampoline or wearing helium kangaroo shorts.

Andy Van Slyke

#9. The subject was as easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket

Raymond Chandler

#10. With the signs of the Disc zodiac. There were sixty-four of them, from Wezen the Double-headed Kangaroo to Gahoolie, the Vase of Tulips (a constellation of great religious significance whose meaning, alas, was now lost).

Terry Pratchett

#11. Let me introduce myself. My name is, uh, Kangaroo ... Kangaroo - Captain Kangaroo ... I'm the keeper here of the Treasure House.

Bob Keeshan

#12. I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

Mark Twain

#13. If you were a kangaroo you'd forget you've got a joey in your pouch.

Steve Fowler

#14. Hands-Off Parenting Envy the kangaroo. That pouch setup is extraordinary: The baby crawls out of the womb when it is about two inches long, gets into the pouch, and proceeds to mature. I'd have a baby if it would develop in my handbag. RITA RUDNER

Anonymous

#15. I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.

Dick Van Dyke

#16. Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.

Steve Irwin

#17. When you come across with a problem in your life, do not always try to solve it; make a long jump like a kangaroo and continue your way! Sometimes problems must be leaped over without touching them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. Hopefully New Zealand let me stay, and they don't kick me out and ban me. And I hope I don't get killed by a kangaroo, 'cuz I heard that happens out there.

Vince Staples

#19. That would be like finding out Mr. Rogers was a serial killer that liked to dress up in clown outfits before he offed his victims. Or that Captain Kangaroo was a Brony.

Mark Tufo

#20. My mother on her death bed told me, 'Where the hell did that kangaroo come from!?' - it just popped out of nowhere and punched her in the head and caused a cerebral hemorrhage, so I thought I'd move to a country where there were no kangaroos!

Colin Mochrie

#21. Listen, Frank Zhang has moves. He's probably gonna turn into a kangaroo and do some marsupial jujitsu on their ugly faces.

Rick Riordan

#22. Australia! Australians! Surely it's still full of Magwitch-types, lumbering oafs with shaven pates and broken noses on the run from whatever law there is, chucking kangaroo heads on the barbie as they read their awful bush poetry.

Dave Franklin

#23. For a moment they all looked at Dermot incredulously, as if he'd just announced he was going to birth a kangaroo.

Charlaine Harris

#24. As far as he could see, the drawings were simply alive. They might be colored earth on rock, but they were as alive as the kangaroo that'd just hopped away.

Terry Pratchett

#25. Don't know what 2 say about Dunk-a-roos. They're just good! Sometimes you want a food that is comfortable and takes you back. For me, it's those crazy little kangaroo crackers.

Prince

#26. It is in the national interest to have the Flying Kangaroo. It's in the interests of our tourism industry. It's in the interests of jobs here in Australia.

Anthony Albanese

#27. As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang, and she went on to become a surgeon.

Aimee Bender

#28. I think I know now why it is called the Kangaroo Suite. It's because even when you no longer have a child, you carry him forever. It

Jodi Picoult

#29. I'm fairly adventurous with my eating. I've tried kangaroo, and Moreton Bay bugs, which are a kind of lobster, are so good.

Brian O'Driscoll

#30. If you hit a kangaroo in the street and you have to pull out on the side of the road, it can get back up and murder you.

Vince Staples

#31. Go to the Black Sea, meet new people, see beautiful places, get killed by a mutant carnivorous kangaroo goat. One item off my bucket list.

Ilona Andrews

#32. 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

#33. How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!

Vladimir Nabokov

#34. Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield to the cycles of time and climate, whether over an hour or a decade.

Simon Schama

#35. One meal I'm constantly reminded about is when I ate kangaroo tail in the desert in Australia; it wasn't necessarily my favorite, but I will always remember it.

Rob Machado

#36. Pursuit of happiness is like chasing a moving target - a target stuck to the belly of a frolicsome kangaroo.

Majid Kazmi

#37. I guess that compared to other comic strips, I'm edgy. But put me along something like 'South Park,' and I'm 'Captain Kangaroo.'

Stephan Pastis

#38. Kangaroo farts, as fate would have it, don't contain methane.

Steven D. Levitt

#39. You're in the country of the kangaroo and the duck-billed platypus, and you're asking 'why is it a mushroom? Because it just IS.

Elle Lothlorien

#40. Are there any mythical beasts which aren't simple pastiches of nature? Centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, griffons, chimeras, sphinxes, manticores, and the like don't speak well for the human imagination. None is as novel as a kangaroo or starfish.

William Poundstone

#41. It is hard eating a little kangaroo knob.

Karl Pilkington

#42. Any time you're near a kangaroo, it's a close call.

Jerry O'Connell

#43. What I've written here is a message to myself. I toss it into the air
like a boomerang. It slices through the dark, lays the little soul of
some poor kangaroo out cold, and finally comes back to me.
But the boomerang that returns is not the same one I threw.
Boomerang, boomerang.

Haruki Murakami

#44. The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates.

Joe Garagiola

#45. I could not eat a kangaroo. But many fine Australians do. Those with cookbooks as well as boomerangs Prefer him in tasty kangaroo-meringues.

Ogden Nash

#46. Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.

Calvin Trillin

#47. Your heart keeps jumping like a kangaroo, floating like an onion in a bowl of stew.

Fabian

#48. I liked the koala, wallaby, and I chilled with a kangaroo a bit. There was a wombat that I quite enjoyed also.

Todd Barry

#49. What's the matter with you anyway?" Riesenfeld shouts "You look like a moon-struck kangaroo!

Erich Maria Remarque

#50. Do you know if a kangaroo can jump higher than a house? Of course it does, a house does not jump at all. 2.

Kevin Moore

#51. How true, how true" said the Sour Kangaroo, "And from now on, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to protect them with you!" And the Young Kangaroo in her pouch said "Me too!

Dr. Seuss

#52. Creative new health strategies like micro-insurance for poor people or Kangaroo care for pre-term babies are transforming health outcomes in even the most low-resource settings. Dedication and innovation are transforming health care worldwide.

Liya Kebede

#53. When I was still a piccanin she tutuzela'd me on her back, a back-to-front kangaroo. Snug in the hollow of her back, I felt her humming and singing seep into me." (from "Blood Orange: A Novel" by Troy Blacklaws)

Troy Blacklaws

#54. There is nothing more delightful than to scoop up a wild joey in your arms and smell the wind and eucalyptus in the coats of the gentle kangaroo or the deep-earth smell of tiny wallabies. It is wonderful to see the trust in their eyes and the gradual realization that you mean them no harm.

Stella Reid

#55. It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.

Sid Waddell

#56. Envy the kangaroo. That pouch setup is extraordinary; the baby crawls out of the womb when it is about two inches long, gets into the pouch, and proceeds to mature. I'd have a baby if it would develop in my handbag.

Rita Rudner

#57. Kofi Annan's kangaroo court ... a clear and present danger to the war on terrorism and Americans fighting it all over the world.

Tom DeLay

#58. You have no spirit of culinary adventure. You need to be more like that snarky guy on the Travel Channel. He goes all over the world eating kangaroo a**holes and snail throw-up. He'd eat anything. He don't care how sick he gets. He's another one of my role models, except he needs ironing.

Janet Evanovich