Top 100 Quotes About Jungle
#1. So you're reinstating the law of the jungle?" asks Mo.
"You were bringing it back, every time you filled your tank.
David Mitchell
#2. Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.
Arthur Miller
#3. The inside of my head is out of control. It is on fire. It is snowing. It is a wild jungle. It is an Arctic wilderness. It is everything that has ever happened and everything that ever will happen, all at once.
Emily Barr
#4. Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs" searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.
Duke Ellington
#5. Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere.
Colin Baker
#6. Surviving in business is like surviving in the jungle;
you must look for prey while on the lookout for predators.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#7. Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.
Mohsin Hamid
#8. The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ... He may even believe that equal pay will do something terrible to his gonads.
Elaine Morgan
#9. In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.
Werner Herzog
#10. Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than on ... there was something touching and appealing about her.
John Huston
#11. Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.
John F. Kennedy
#12. Yes, your man, Jane Porter. Your savage, primeval man come out of the jungle to claim his mate--the woman who ran away from him," he added almost fiercely.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#13. I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible.
Adam Garcia
#14. When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness,
there are three things that can show you the way:
instinct to survive, the knowledge of navigation,
creative imagination. Without them, you are lost.
Toba Beta
#15. Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.
Dan Quayle
#16. I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.
Amitav Ghosh
#17. I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you.
Wes Anderson
#18. Just like we respect your legal system, you [europeans] should respect our legal system. You cannot impose your values on us, otherwise the world will become the law of the jungle. Every society decides what its laws are, and it's the people who make decisions with regards to these laws.
Adel Al-Jubeir
#19. Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.
Rene Daumal
#20. When I was a tiny tot, we only had one record player in the house, so there was either Genesis on it or the Jungle Book or The Beatles as well, and various other things.
Rick Astley
#21. May I ask how your revolution's going?
Revolutions always go more smoothly around a campfire in the jungle than they do in real life.
Colin Cotterill
#22. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.
Frantz Fanon
#23. When I was filming 'Lost,' we'd be in the jungle. The only thing we had to contend with was the sound of the ocean. That was it, really.
Henry Ian Cusick
#24. There comes a time in every man's life when his thoughts lightly turn to setting his library on fire. To burn away the jungle to let him find the books that most matter to him.
Steven Hardesty
#25. Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
Bill Veeck
#26. The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#27. Because you are young and free and one with the jungle. You are mortal, but instead of clinging to the hope of immortality, you embrace each day, one at a time, and never worry about tomorrow.
Jessica Khoury
#28. In Nam, the jungle's heat was heavy, and like a spoiled overweight child, it insisted on being carried everywhere.
Billy O'Connor
#29. They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.
M. F. Husain
#30. It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.
Max Frisch
#31. The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.
Armand Hammer
#32. Look at this save. Cat-like, jungle-like, quick. Big puma. Big, beautiful, brave gladiator goalkeeper. Spartacus, I called him. Mix in a bit of octopus. Beautiful.
Ray Hudson
#34. You know, I had a lot of romantic notions about the jungle and this kind of finished that
David Grann
#35. [N]ine-tenths of the people who are in the Home Service don't want to go abroad. They are people who live in Washington and have gotten acquainted with the jungle of this town and know their way around.
Charles E. Bohlen
#36. Kate said, her eyes very large, 'I find your rudeness abominable and your politeness obnoxious but my goodness, Francis Crawford, what terrifies me more than a jungle of tigers is the moment when you look worried.
Dorothy Dunnett
#37. She was mine. She was all fucking mine.I was the king of the jungle, and the woman beside me was my queen.
J.J. McAvoy
#38. A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
Rudyard Kipling
#39. The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.
Jimmy Buffett
#40. I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you - forever.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#41. Bryn, when you were six years old, you tried to bungee jump off a jungle gym by connecting the straps of your overalls to the bars with your shoelaces. Caution has never been your strong suit.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#42. Every person is a creator. We create with our ideas and beliefs. Our daily labor creates a worldly cocoon that enfolds us. We mold out of a granite substance not yet hardened the tutelary angels whose ideological formation will guide our passageway through the jungle of life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#43. There is no solitude greater than the samurai's, unless perhaps it be that of a tiger in the jungle.
Jean-Pierre Melville
#44. I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.
Timbaland
#45. She'd been so busy worrying about soldier boys and villagers she'd forgotten the jungle had hunters of its own, and now she was going to die for it.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#46. But if she was going to live in a damn jungle, she preferred it be a damn jungle in Georgia, she always said, and never saw any reason to elaborate on that.
Rick Bragg
#47. I want people to think that I'm a magical, weird-looking freak of nature, but they really see me as a sexy Amazon jungle cat. That makes sense - I'm a little bit of both, but I definitely lean toward the narwhal side of the equation.
Kesha
#48. What I see is tellin me this world's gone crazy, but, What is real says God's still on His throne, What I need is to remember one thing, that the Lord of the gentle breeze is Lord of the rough and tumble, and he is the King of the jungle.
Steven Curtis Chapman
#49. This, however, is OKCupid, the vast, weird pink-and-blue toned jungle of the id masquerading as a dating site, where rare birds of modern romance flutter amongst the night-terrors of human loneliness and despair and the suspicious skin irritants of late-night hook-uppery.
Laurie Penny
#50. From the very, very beginning, we made the decision that 'Tarzan' wasn't going to sing. My co-director, Chris Buck, and I said to each other that we couldn't imagine a half-naked man in the jungle simply bursting into song.
Kevin Lima
#51. These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.
Allan Bloom
#53. I'm too old to be humiliated on reality shows, and I don't want to look desperate. You won't see me on 'Big Brother' or in the jungle.
Bobby Davro
#54. No man's cub can run with the people of the jungle," howled Shere Khan. "Give
Rudyard Kipling
#55.
he stopped and eyed Bill Corso
if you choose to just sit here like a bored jungle gorilla, you will have to write out this quote as many times as you can during the next hour.
A.S. King
#56. The Tezuman Empire in the jungle valleys of central Klatch is known for it organic market gardens, its exquisite craftsmanship in obsidian, feathers and jade, and its mass human sacrifices in honor of Quezovercoatl, the Feathered Boa, god of mass human sacrifices.
Terry Pratchett
#57. My heart is a drum, deep in the jungle of my chest, and it bangs and bangs and bangs for him.
Christina Lauren
#58. When they told him this, Ransom at last understood why mythology was what it was
gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on a jungle of filth and imbecility.
C.S. Lewis
#59. My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.
Julie Christie
#60. The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Outsiders came into the jungle, enslaved the tribes to harvest the rubber and killed those that resisted.
Tom Cole
#61. Through the metal bars of the jungle gym, she watches two gray squirrels chase each other around a tree. Around and around and around. So gratuitous.
Thomas Pierce
#62. Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle.
Peter Gabriel
#63. I try to imitate the effortless grace that Day and Pascao have in this urban jungle.
Marie Lu
#64. I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.
Pam Grier
#65. I love you, Quinn Shaughnessy. From the very first day when we snuck into my house and stole those chocolate chip cookies and then hid behind the jungle gym, I was hooked.
Samantha Chase
#66. I lived in grass huts in a jungle in the Philippines for three weeks with tribal people.
Evangeline Lilly
#67. We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realise we're in the wrong jungle.
Stephen Covey
#68. But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace.
Roberto Clemente
#69. Jungle - so wise that everyone else would notice
Anonymous
#70. The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade.
Tahir Shah
#71. It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.
Thor Heyerdahl
#72. Spiritual growth is more than a procedure; it's a wild search for God in the tangled jungle of our souls.
Michael Yaconelli
#73. Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
Norman Mailer
#74. Dad used to read aloud to us from Dickens and Kipling. My tastes were omnivorous. I read anything I could lay my hands on, but the memory that stays with me is that of my father reading the Jungle Books to us when we were young. Beautiful stories!
A.B. Guthrie Jr.
#75. There was nothing strange about it. Jed and i were on a covert mission. We had dinoculars, jungle, a quarry, a threat, the hidden presence of AK-47s and slanted eyes. The only missing element was a Doors soundtrack.
Alex Garland
#76. Truthfully, I love being in the jungle. I love it when the make-up artists come to set, they come equipped with dirt and sweat. I spend my days climbing trees and I can crawl out of bed and walk on set and that's exactly all I have to look like.
Evangeline Lilly
#77. In Congo, a slashed jungle quickly becomes a field of flowers, and scars become the ornaments of a particular face. Call it oppression, complicity, stupefaction, call it what you like, it doesn't matter. Africa swallowed the conqueror's music and sang a new song of her own.
Barbara Kingsolver
#78. The scene he witnessed there in the twilight depths of the African jungle was burned forever into the Englishman's brain.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#79. I don't like sleeping in the dark jungle by myself.
Ren
Colleen Doran
#80. The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#81. I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
Candace Bushnell
#82. If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.
Nigel Short
#83. We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death.
Chuck Palahniuk
#84. I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, really, because the people making it weren't musicians.
Aphex Twin
#85. If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.
Gautama Buddha
#86. The bathroom was jungle-fogged, flooded with puddles, piled with soaked towels; cakes of soap with long strands of blonde baked in.
A girl in pieces: Barbie-thin ankles, a shaving cut on her knee; hipbones she could stab you with; white hands gelled with strawberry body lotion.
Allyse Near
#87. If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.
Neil Young
#88. I have a place in Costa Rica that is in the middle of the jungle. There's no Internet. There's no TV. Do I work there? Hell no.
Shane Smith
#89. I'd make you my favorite jungle gym if you'd let me.'
- Katrina, 'Convicted
Dee Tenorio
#90. Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council - Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey - rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.
Rudyard Kipling
#91. That evening we sat around the campfire. The clouds that had gathered overhead all day broke up and the moonlight shimmered on the Cocus River. The current glittered a silvery reflection. Nor was the Jungle dark. Hundreds of fireflies danced about - it was a magnificent evening
Yossi Ghinsberg
#92. Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.
Mahatma Gandhi
#93. Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.
Adrian Frutiger
#94. A lot of punk rock. I listen to various stuff just cuz my friends now listen to a lot of different bands. I listen to a lot of underground stuff like jungle music.
Cassie Steele
#95. A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.
Herb Caen
#96. She realized the spell that had been upon her in the depths of that far-off jungle, but there was no spell of enchantment now in prosaic Wisconsin.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#97. The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they don't their failure will be a tragedy for civilization, a loss of cooperative effort, a baulking of energy, and the fixing in American life of a class-structure.
Walter Lippmann
#98. I have very long legs and I hate driving anything unless it's a boat or an ATV in the jungle. I like to sit in the back of a car, where I can look out the window, answer my emails on my iPad, or hold hands with a pretty girl.
Jean Pigozzi
#99. Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
Evelyn Waugh
#100. Perhaps jungle life, despite physical danger, was a relaxing one. Surely it was free of the petty grievances, the disparate values of society. It was simple, devoid of artifice and ulcer-burning pressures.
Richard Matheson
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