Quotes About Tadpoles

#1. Across the road, tadpoles are dancing on the quarter thumbnail of the moon. They cant see, not yet.

James Wright

#2. I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles
champions every one.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.

DeForest Kelley

#4. Within six months of starting my Ph.D. work in 1956, I had already obtained feeding tadpoles derived from transplanted nuclei of embryonic cells.

John Gurdon

#5. Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the Ursulines, there are millepeds in the Pantheon, there are tadpoles in the ditches of the Champs-de-Mars.

Victor Hugo

#6. Memories are't like words; they're soft and gooey. Covered with a sticky slime, like a penis after sex, or your vagina when you menstruate, and shaped like tadpoles or tiny watersnakes

Ryu Murakami

#7. Their (Council of Dads) wisdom reads like a psalmbook of living:
Approach the cow
Pack your flip-flops
Don't see the wall
Tend your tadpoles
Live the questions
Harvest miracles
Always learn to juggle on the side of a hill
Take a walk with a turtle

Bruce Feiler

#8. The humped bladderwort has yellow, snapdragon-like flowers, and it's actually carnivorous, capable of trapping and eating not just insects but even tadpoles and tiny fish.

Sam Kean

#9. Little jointed stringy things the shape of tadpoles drifted across his vision. He had to keep blinking his eyes to get rid of them, but soon they drifted back.

Elizabeth Taylor

#10. We play hide-and-seek, wade into her ponds to fill jam jars with writhing tadpoles, and cavort with her pack of dogs, named Brandy, Whiskey, Lager, so that just calling the pack makes one feel light-headed and drunk.

Nayomi Munaweera

#11. When the future you see is worse than the present, one begins to worry. And, oh, I speak of Ghanaian politicians. The tadpoles are out-jumping the toads.

Nana Awere Damoah

#12. Tarts and tadpoles!...The boy is still alive!

L. Frank Baum

#13. Maybe that's what our friendship was. It was the feeling that we didn't have to speak or explain. We could sit in the darkness and watch the tadpoles just as easily as we could lie out in the heat and breathe in the smell of peaches and gravel, all without saying a word.

Rachel Coker

#14. I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs.

William Joyce

#15. In a world full of monochromatic tadpoles, if you are fluorescent it does not matter what size of tadpole you are.

Subroto Bagchi

#16. The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

Robert Kennedy

#17. It's the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that's worth having.

Katie Ashley

#18. I used to go swimming and passed the tennis courts every day, and that's how it started. My mum said, 'Why don't you play tennis in your summer holidays because you have nothing to do except swim for an hour or whatever?,' and that's how I started playing.

Sania Mirza

#19. It follows that the more people we take to be our equals and compare ourselves to, the more people there will be to envy.

Alain De Botton

#20. much of the developing world - no longer suffers from diseases of deficiency. Instead we get the diseases of excess. This

Scott Carney

#21. I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.

Florence Griffith Joyner

#22. Happiness also requires external goods in addition.

Aristotle.

#23. Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right ...
That flawed utterance is dearer to God!

Rumi

#24. I did Second City, and Nia Vardalos also did Second City, so I knew her from there.

Rachel Dratch

#25. There is no quick fix. At the end of the day, you still have to do the work to maintain your weight. It can't be a diet. You have to change your life.

Al Roker

#26. I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.

Richard Feynman

#27. "This is Lakshmi Singh." It's like a tadpole dying in muck. Take a drink. Wet your mouth.

Doug Stanhope

#28. Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have; take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois.

Rod Blagojevich

#29. St. Patrick ... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish.

Charles Madigan

#30. When I drove for British teams ... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

Alain Prost

#31. Galatians 5:21 constitutes the most serious warning to those who may think they can sin that grace may abound.

Billy Graham

#32. Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.

Patrick Macnee