Quotes About The Jungle Book

#1. Pictures are very important. I remember at home we had illustrated editions of Rudyard Kipling's 'Just So Stories' and 'The Jungle Book,' which were read to me. Living in Zimbabwe made it very real, especially the 'Just So Stories' with the 'great grey-green greasy Limpopo.'

Korky Paul

#2. Every freak has a mother. When I met Marilyn Manson I was struck by how nice he was. People are rarely as weird as you anticipate. Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.

Boy George

#3. 'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.

Marjane Satrapi

#4. 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

#5. I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's 'The Elephant's Child' and 'The Jungle Book.' Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant.

Michael Morpurgo

#6. I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.'

Keri Russell

#7. I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.

Sean Connery

#8. The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own ... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.

James Gleick

#9. Each dog barks in its own yard.

Rudyard Kipling

#10. It is possible to know when, at least basically, we please God. In fact, Joseph Smith taught that one of the conditions of genuine faith is to have "an actual knowledge that the course of life which [one] is pursuing is according to [God's] will."

Neal A. Maxwell

#11. From what I saw the plurality of students and faculty had been educated exclusively in the tradition of writers like William Gaddis ...

Junot Diaz

#12. Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.

Benedict Of Nursia

#13. Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

Bob Dylan

#14. If you're going to live, you might as well do painful, brave, and beautiful things.

Jeff Zentner

#15. You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality.

Amy Irving

#16. Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

Jon Meacham

#17. No, no, you have driven me mad! When I think
that I had only one object in life: to give my name to an opera wench!

Gaston Leroux