Snakes Quotes · Page 13

I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like…

— Britt Ekland

If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake…

— Mahatma Gandhi

My success symbolizes loyalty, great friends, Dedication, hard work, routine builds character. In a world full of snakes, rats and scavengers

— Nas

Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers.

— Rumi

Luckily there were no venomous snakes around Hoosick, N.Y., so I amassed quite a collection of milk snakes, garters, ribbons and ring-necked…

— Romulus Whitaker

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the…

— Jerome Lawrence

Sasuke: Snakes can sense things through temperature, and they can also do it with their sense of smell by passing the smell…

— Masashi Kishimoto

Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're…

— Anne Rice

If you annoy the Hog-nosed Snake enough, he will roll over on his back and play dead. If you turn him right-side…

— Will Cuppy

People who keep a large snake in their apartment building, which happens quite a bit, all of a sudden, within two summers,…

— Henry Rollins

Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all…

— Anonymous

“Everything in Australia is trying to kill you, haven't you heard? Half of the ten deadliest snakes in the world live in…

— Rosalind James

Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings…

— Gary Snyder

Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait,…

— William Carlos Williams

“There is not a moral to every story in animal behavior. Sometimes a snake is just a snake, and sometimes snake sex…

— Marlene Zuk

That worries me an awful lot. If people misunderstand our intentions [in Black Snake Moan], especially regarding my character, then they're essentially…

— Christina Ricci

Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the…

— Omar Khayyam

“He knew for a fact that he was so hopelessly bad at seeing through camouflage that, if left alone in the forest,…

— Sorin Suciu

Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake.

— Jacqueline Carey

Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.

— Wesley Strick

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes…

— Edward Abbey

It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks…

— Marlon Brando

He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly…

— Gautama Buddha

Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday…

— Joseph Campbell

If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get…

— Robert E. Howard

People don't like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will…

— Dick Van Patten

I'm fascinated by the whole concept of snake handling. When you read about the Pentecostal snake handlers, what strikes you the most…

— Lucinda Williams

The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like,…

— David Harvey

No, no the mind I love must still have wild places - a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy…

— Katherine Mansfield

POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find…

— Ambrose Bierce

I made $3,000 opening for the Neville Brothers, and they paid me in cash. That was a bad situation, because I bought…

— Mitch Hedberg

“There once was a kindly farmer who found a viper freezing on the ground in the snow. Please help me, the poor…

— Rachel Caine

[Oliver North is a] document-shredding, Constitution-trashing, Commander in Chief-bashing, Congress-thrashing, uniform-shaming, Ayatollah-loving, arms-dealing, criminal-protecting, résumé-enhancing, Noriega-coddling, Social Security-threatening, public school-denigrating, Swiss-banking-law-breaking, letter-faking,…

— Chuck Robb

Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps,…

— Cassandra Clare

“Through the window, I saw the beautiful world outside: the sky, the sun, the cacti, the rocks, and the dirt. How I…

— Patrick Jennings

Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that…

— William S. Burroughs

[St. Patrick] was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along…

— Arthur Brisbane

The morning woods were utterly new. A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appeared and vanished on the path,…

— Annie Dillard

Medusa was fascinating to work with because I gave her a snake's body so that she could pull herself with her hands…

— Ray Harryhausen