Hippo Quotes

Believe that you may understand,

— Saint Augustine

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

— Saint Augustine

And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!

— Jack Kerouac

“idea of whacking the hippo.”

— Stuart Gibbs

We traveled for two weeks with a pickled hippo.

— Sara Gruen

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.

— Terry Pratchett

His lion and hippo legs twitched. I wondered if netherworld monsters dreamed of chasing rabbits.

— Rick Riordan

Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.

— George Ayittey

“Don’t worry, Houndstooth. This hippo caper will go off without a hitch.” Houndstooth”

— Sarah Gailey

But this plan of yous!' Tawaret shuddered, causing a tsunami of jiggling hippo flesh.

— Rick Riordan

I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.

— Laura Mvula

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

— Saint Augustine

Somewhere behind me, Zia yelled, "Hippo!" Which I thought was a little late. ~Carter Kane

— Rick Riordan

African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen.

— Jared Diamond

I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile…

— Zahi Hawass

“Frankly, I couldn't be more astonished that this guy was involved in something like this than if you came riding through my…

— Dan Rather

We wandered the halls of an infinite magic nursing home, led by a hippo nurse with a torch. Really, just an ordinary…

— Rick Riordan

You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

— Joseph Conrad

Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But…

— Jonathan Stroud

“attacker. The tusks on a hippo too are formidable weapons that are used to good effect against rivals, or as a threat…

— Patrick Brakspear

You might not think a hippo could inspire terror. Screaming “Hippo!” doesn’t have the same impact as screaming “Shark!” But I’m telling…

— Rick Riordan

I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo.…

— Karl Pilkington

I believe that every paper in the country should have one headline that when you read it, you laugh so hard you…

— Lewis Black

The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals…

— Yann Martel

Curled up at the base of the scales, fast asleep, was the oddest monster I'd seen yet. It had the head of…

— Rick Riordan

We were born in a Jewish world, as part of a Jewish faith tradition. We had to translate ourselves into the neo-Platonic…

— John Shelby Spong

A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some…

— Shel Silverstein

Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by…

— William Gibson

“Back in the kitchen, Mummy was trying to make her [knitted] hippo stand up on the table. I had to swallow a…

— Hester Browne

I'm not fighting with myself. Oh, my God. That's how I am. You know, the story of the hippo? The hippo comes…

— Marat Safin

“I am she who lifts the mountains When she goes to hunt, Who wears mamba for a headband And a lion for…

— Nancy Farmer

The fact is that philosophy has been a decisive source of inspiration in all the great crises that Europe has faced. It…

— Roberto Esposito

I know at least two people who have never been killed by hippos.

— Bill Engvall

“Few things are stranger than watching a giant hippo fly.”

— Orpheus Collar

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

— Saint Augustine

“breathe dead hippo, so to speak, and not be contaminated.”

— Joseph Conrad

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

— Saint Augustine

“He's as mad as a hippo with a hernia.”

— Zazu

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

— Saint Augustine