Top 75 Quotes About Crocodiles

#1. Hippopotami should not have human hands and carry torches ... men should not have the heads of crocodiles ...

H.P. Lovecraft

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#2. Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.

Michael Jackson

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#3. Between valleys I took the stone stairways laid down by villages, and would glimpse the farmers toiling up below me in crocodiles of decorated straw hats, or waiting in curiosity above.

Colin Thubron

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#4. We can't behave like crocodiles and cry over spilled milk and broken eggs.

Giovanni Trapattoni

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#5. Then the animals began to sing. First the crocodiles.
But crocodiles can't sing, I objected at this point every evening.
Sure they can, answers my father very quietly. Crocodiles sing, if only you let them. You just have to be quiet to hear them.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

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#6. What's he doing?" Bethany asked. "He's bowing.'Good day milday." Bethany giggled. "Crocodiles don't bow."
"They should when they meet a princess.

Kerrelyn Sparks

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#7. The Church is the dwelling place of God in the Person of the Holy Ghost.
Where the Church thrives, people are blessed and progress is evident. Where there is no Church, people feed their babies to crocodiles and roam naked in the jungles.

Oliver B. Greene

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#8. For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., where's there's crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.

Ken Jennings

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#9. The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.

Pyotr Kapitsa

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#10. More mud, more crocodiles.

James Joyce

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#11. I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable.

Steve Irwin

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#12. All concierges are venal. It is not their fault. They are trained to regard all hotel guests except maharajahs as potential cheats and thieves. They have as much concern for your comfort or well-being as crocodiles.

Ian Fleming

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#13. Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#14. Upon my word,' said Dantes, 'you make me tremble. If I listen much longer to you, I shall believe the world is filled with tigers and crocodiles.'
'Remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than those that walk on four.

Alexandre Dumas

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#15. My neighbors are crocodiles and tigers and giraffes.

Bindi Irwin

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#16. I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

Maya Angelou

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#17. The hardest thing about my job isn't the snake bites or the crocodiles, it's being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.

Bear Grylls

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#18. Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

Aldous Huxley

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#19. To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.

Peter Kreeft

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#20. Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.

Erma Bombeck

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#21. In a marshland amongst the crocodiles, there float beautiful water lilies! Even in the Hell, one can find the good and the beauty.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#22. The crocodiles that frighten from crossing the rivers of our destinies are easily drowned with personal confidence but not team courage. It means you owe it to yourself to defeat your own crocodiles and cross over to the other side!

Israelmore Ayivor

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#23. It Is The Wisdom Of Crocodiles, That Shed Tears When They Would Devour

Francis Bacon

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#24. He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.

Barack Obama

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#25. As you know, the fossil record includes not only the ancestors of crocodiles and whales, but also the ancestors of human beings. And this, of course, is why evolution remains controversial.

Kenneth R. Miller

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#26. The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile

Louis Kahn

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#27. My field is with apex predators, hence your crocodiles, your snakes, your spiders.

Steve Irwin

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#28. The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.

Ehud Barak

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#29. Statistically there's only one crocodile-related human fatality per year in the whole of Australia.

Steve Irwin

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#30. A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

G.K. Chesterton

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#31. Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?"
"Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.

Alexandre Dumas

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#32. I prayed the monsters would give up. Or that perhaps Philip of Macedonia would climb back to the terrace (do crocodiles climb?) and renew the fight.

Rick Riordan

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#33. The crocodile doesn't harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.

Linda Hogan

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#34. I have done everything I have ever wanted to do. I have swum with tiger sharks, been charged by lions and elephants. I have been shot three times, chased by crocodiles and, God be praised, I've made enough money that I can continue to do all the things I want to for as long as I am able.

Wilbur Smith

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#35. My chauffer once told me that I would feel better in the morning, but when I woke up the two of us were still on a tiny island surrounded by man-eating crocodiles, and, as I'm sure you can understand, I didn't feel any better about it.

Lemony Snicket

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#36. Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!

Alexandre Dumas

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#37. How can it be hard and easy at the same time?" asked Omar.
"It's like a really tall wall," said Anja. "It might be hard to climb, but there's no flying crocodiles to fight off while you do it.

Dan Wells

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#38. Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep ... in a giant blender.

Homer

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#39. And I'm falling in love with you," he whispers. "But I would throw you in the water and watch crocodiles tear you to bits, if I thought that doing so would accomplish my goals. Do. Not. Trust. Anyone. Especially me.

Bethany Griffin

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#40. I dragged my mind away from that line of thought; there was nothing but quicksand and crocodiles down that path.

Melanie Casey

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#41. Unlike New Zealand, which has nothing especially predatory, Australia is full of spiders and crocodiles and all kinds of animals that will eat you and sting you.

Brian Cox

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#42. If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.

Peter Benchley

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#43. I am used to wrangling crocodiles.

Bindi Irwin

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#44. My earliest memories were on the cattle stations up in the Outback. And then we moved back to Melbourne and then back out there and then back again. Probably my most vivid memories were up there in Bulman with crocodiles and buffalo.

Chris Hemsworth

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#45. Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along.

Steve Irwin

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#46. Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels ... They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.

Anton Chekhov

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#47. Like the crocodile, he strikes always at the weakest spot.

George Orwell

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#48. They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.

Winston Churchill

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#49. Yes; and remember that two-legged crocodiles are more dangerous that the others.

Alexandre Dumas

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#50. I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.

Bear Grylls

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#51. After seventy-eight days and 2,200 miles, the enterprise was in serious trouble - not from crocodiles, hippos, bandits, diseases, or even bureaucracy - but from simple human conflict.

Richard Bangs

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#52. Crocodiles are basically Triassic animals living in the present. Sharks are Triassic. So we know it has happened before.

Michael Crichton

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#53. 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

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#54. The large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.

Nan Fairbrother

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#55. 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

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#56. I think I'll give the Cage of Death a miss too," I said. Crocodiles were fascinating creatures, like living dinosaurs, but they could do their living over there somewhere, far away from me.

Renee Conoulty

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#57. Crocodiles are easy,' Steve said. 'They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.

Terri Irwin

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#58. Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.

Winston Churchill

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#59. Crocodiles are really bold, and they do come up on land.

Linda Kozlowski

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#60. Have you seen the stars, Enaiat?" "What have the stars got to do with anything?" "Count them, Enaiat." "That's impossible. There are too many of them." "Then start now, said Mother. Otherwise you'll never finish." (p.10/11)

Fabio Geda

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#61. Australia! I wanna see some saltwater crocodiles!

Jay Park

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#62. Working with crocodiles is always amazing because they're beautiful. They're modern day dinosaurs, which is really cool.

Bindi Irwin

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#63. Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't undervalue the investigation of commonalities but can't avoid the conclusion that diversity has been relatively neglected, especially as concerns the brain.

Theodore Holmes Bullock

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#64. The Zambesi is a big river; there's no crocodiles on 4 Mile Run.

Jim Fowler

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#65. but man, if you're not honest with yourself you're a lost soul swimming with the 15 foot crocodiles.

Smokey Yunick

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#66. 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

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#67. 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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#68. As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

William James

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#69. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others." "Never

Alexandre Dumas

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#70. Crikey means gee whiz, wow! Crikey, mate. You're far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building.

Steve Irwin

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#71. Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout.

Ashanti

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#72. There are things that are worse than glass and crocodiles.

Alan Bradley

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#73. So you're lying to me again?" "It's a Southern tradition." "Are there any crocs in the water?" "I done told you there ain't no crocodiles around here." "What's the difference?" "Mostly the spelling, ...

Nick Wilgus

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#74. Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmetic Polaroidising, but one would bet they would rather go to Sargent.

Robert Hughes

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#75. Little sisters," Carter said. "If they talked too much, the Egyptians threw them to the crocodiles.

Rick Riordan

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