When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for…

In Florida, North Florida, and across the South, Black children used to be used as alligator bait. That's how they would get children out…

— RaMell Ross

“In the swamp the alligators drifted like patches of bad-assed water.”

— Terry Pratchett

When youre up to your armpits in alligators, its hard to remember to drain the swamp.

— Ronald Reagan

“When you're up to your ass in alligators, you forget about cleaning the swamp.”

— Robert DeBard

It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

— Ronald Reagan

Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing…

— Buddy Hackett

Everything on Saturday morning [cartoons] moves alike that's one of the reasons it's not animation. The drawings are different, but everybody acts the same…

— Chuck Jones

When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival…

— Alexander Skarsgard

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

— Dan Rather

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…

— Muhammad Ali

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

— Cordell Hull

It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots,…

— Kelly Brook

The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.

— Mike Pence

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

— Bill Haley

All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.

— Charlaine Harris