Top 63 Quotes About Alligators
#1. In order to approximate dinosaurian physiology, the trio of scientists carried out the unenviable task of sticking thermometers in the cloacae of American alligators.
Brian Switek
#2. Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest,
Charlie Daniels
#4. So he left the lagoon and entered the jungle again, within a few days was completely lost, following the lagoons southward through the increasing rain and heat, attacked by alligators and giant bats, a second Adam searching for the forgotten paradises of the reborn Sun.
J.G. Ballard
#5. Ceelie preferred cats and small dogs, although they tended to be eaten by alligators around here, as she recalled. Munchability wasn't a desirable trait in a pet.
Susannah Sandlin
#6. Couldn't I just take up juggling fire over a pit of alligators?" Liam muttered. "I think it might be easier.
Deborah Blake
#7. They looked so dangerous, like alligators. Really fast alligators wearing black. Ninja alligators. I decided not to use that one on Megan.
Brandon Sanderson
#8. I suspect alligators never get arm-barred; dinosaurs where probably safe from the submission as well, at least the T-rex.
Mark Johnson
#9. Stimulated by the juice, I believe, men have even been known to ride alligators.
P.G. Wodehouse
#10. I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.
Karen Russell
#11. Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories.
Diane Ackerman
#12. The alligators can get you at any age, Buddy. But the worst thing you can do is freeze.
Rebecca Wells
#13. Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
Olin Miller
#14. You don't like to talk to people, do you? I mean, slamming the door in my face was a clue that was hard to miss. I'm perceptive like that.
Susannah Sandlin
#16. I took a deep breath. The alligators were halfway up to my ass. Might as well let 'em keep climbing.
Suzanne Johnson
#17. Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean, there lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame.
Tony Joe White
#18. Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.
Terry Brooks
#20. In the swamp the alligators drifted like patches of bad-assed water.
Terry Pratchett
#21. 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
#22. We have unfinished personal business I do believe." He smiled. "And I do love to make you blush."
"It clashes with my hair.
Susannah Sandlin
#23. Boys, the longer you wait to get my requested prehistoric attack dogs, the more chance we have of people we care about getting hurt, more hurt, or killed. Oh, and don't hurt the alligators
they're a protected species.
Gini Koch
#24. Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell.
J.G. Ballard
#26. The thought of hovering above the earth, weightless in a lilac sky, appealed to her, in the same way imaginary friends appealed to her, or talking alligators.
Sarah Addison Allen
#27. Anytime I fall for a dame like you I hope that somebody will take me outside an' cut my head off quick because I would rather be tied up to a coupla wild alligators than get myself hitched on to you.
Peter Cheyney
#28. Jena shook her head. "Paul needs a life."
"Paul needs a woman," Ceelie said.
Susannah Sandlin
#29. Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear - dogs, alligators or men!
Solomon Northup
#30. the last time I saw commercial laying hens administered hormones, they were given by a unicorn, and brought onto the farm by one of the giant alligators from the sewers.
Marc Draco
#31. How 'bout you, Jena?" He leaned closer, speaking in an exaggerated whisper. "We could go somewhere private. I know you probably got some scars from being shot, but you can't see a scar in the dark, right?"
The dickwad was offering her a pity fuck in a darkened room?
Susannah Sandlin
#32. 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
#33. If she had any sense at all, she'd clean out her desk and look for another job. Something safe and sane, like catching alligators or looking for land mines in Afghanistan.
Janet Evanovich
#34. My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.
Jim Fowler
#35. Louisiana has a larger alligator population than any other state. Just over a million."
"Over a million!" exclaimed Amelia with astonishment.
Linda Weaver Clarke
#36. She struggled with all her might, but he was much too heavy and strong.
With a sigh, Amelia finally said, "You win. How can I defend myself in a situation like this?"
"That's a good question."
With a satisfied grin, he got to his feet and said, "I'll show you.
Linda Weaver Clarke
#37. Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
Chuck Palahniuk
#38. I grew up in Mobile, Alabama - somebody's got to be from Mobile, right? - and Mobile sits at the confluence of five rivers, forming this beautiful delta. And the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes, birds of every flavor.
Mike DeGruy
#39. He'd danced around that story about why he'd moved to Terrebonne more smoothly than an Olympic skater on ice.
Susannah Sandlin
#40. People wrestle alligators but not once has someone done it without an audience.
Doug Stanhope
#41. I've wrestled with alligators,
I've tussled with a whale.
I done handcuffed lightning
And throw thunder in jail.
You know I'm bad.
just last week, I murdered a rock,
Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick.
I'm so mean, I make medicine sick.
Muhammad Ali
#42. A few alligators are naturally of the vicious type and inclined to resent it when you prod them with a stick. You can find out which ones these are by prodding them.
Will Cuppy
#43. [Footnote:] Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
Will Cuppy
#45. But all she wanted to do was lie in bed, eat Kraft macaroni and cheese, and hide from the alligators.
Rebecca Wells
#46. Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.
Jack Hanna
#47. You've got forever; and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever; and it's a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators.
Jim Thompson
#48. Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.
Henry Walter Bates
#49. Amelia? Let's make sure we set some time aside every day for one another. We shouldn't bring our work home with us. Okay?"
She smiled. "Deal!
Linda Weaver Clarke
#50. On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he's now my golf bag.
Bob Hope
#51. I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.
Gail Simmons
#52. It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.
Ronald Reagan
#53. My love life couldn't be more nonexistent if Julius was all all-girls' boarding school with a moat full of alligators around it.
Flynn Meaney
#54. the difficulties of making temperature experiments [on fully grown alligators] would be great and can be best left to the imagination.")
Brian Switek
#55. Living in a stupid country is living in a marsh! You are surrounded by the reptiles and the alligators! Refusing hell is the best path to eliminate the hell!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#56. The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
Jack Hannah
#57. Alligators have beautiful undulating skin, which feels dense, spongy, solid, like the best eraser.
Diane Ackerman
#58. When you're up to your ass in alligators, you forget about cleaning the swamp.
Robert DeBard
#59. And now a brief public service announcement. Alligators: can they kill your children? Yes.
Cecil Baldwin
#60. It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts.
Kelly Brook
#61. All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.
Charlaine Harris
#62. When you go from the fake New Orleans of Disneyland to the real one, where the captain of the paddle-wheel steamer says it is possible to see alligators on the banks of the river, and then you don't see any, you risk feeling homesick for Disneyland.
-'City of Robots',1986
Umberto Eco
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