Snakes Quotes · Page 4

Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“One wouldn't want to consult with foreign snakes.”

— John Maddox Roberts

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I wanna see a snake eat spaghetti.

— Demetri Martin

Tinsel is really snakes' mirrors.

— Steven Wright

Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?

— Toni Morrison

The snake, the rat, the cat, the dog... How you gonna see 'em if you livin' in the fog?

— DMX

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

— Laurie Anderson

Our ancestors used to play with snakes, we play with mouse.

— Narendra Modi

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

— Ross Perot

Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.

— Christina Ricci

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

— Gautama Buddha

That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice.

— Smokey Robinson

Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It…

— Marion Dane Bauer

Well, it's a lot less dangerous - working with snakes and mountaibn lions and dangerous animals - than working in Hollywood [laughs].…

— Bernie Krause

I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous,…

— Bear Grylls

As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived…

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

If there were ever two sentences that you will not respond well to, 'Don't move. There's a snake behind your foot,' is…

— Warren Hutcherson

We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and…

— David Sobel

I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging…

— Bear Grylls

We got to stay awake for all these lizards and snakes; Some of them come as friends, some of them come as…

— Q-Tip

I grew up in Mobile, Alabama - somebody's got to be from Mobile, right? - and Mobile sits at the confluence of…

— Mike deGruy

The Gospel of the army is cunning, as of all other human activities. The wisdom of the snake under the meekness of…

— John Dos Passos

There were only two things I knew in a Christian framework that I could do. One would be the pastor of a…

— Gary Chapman

It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective…

— Etgar Keret

Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes…

— Paul Bloom

I put a What Would Jesus Do bracelet on my Jewish friend's wrist and it burned his skin. He threw it on…

— Daniel Tosh

“That reminds me." I dug into my book bag and pulled out a white cardboard box tied with a string. "I brought…

— Jeri Smith-Ready

The ability to make judgments lies at the heart of Christian living. Unless we are able to judge doctrine, lifestyles, and entertainment,…

— Erwin W. Lutzer

I'm not a big fan of spiders and snakes and worms and stuff like that, but they don't really creep me out.

— Kane

Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.

— Theresa May

To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.

— Anne Sexton

Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

— Wallace Stevens

To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.

— Al Gore

When you've been around a snake long enough, you learn how to crawl in the dirt.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“There are always snakes in the grass lurking, waiting for the right opportunity to take you down.”

— Mercedes Taylor

Don King is the best snake oil salesman I ever met. The absolute best.

— Mickey Duff

“The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.”

— Abraham Verghese

I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'

— Dane Cook

I'm very nervous of snakes. I think it's something about the movement. I'm not a huge fan of spiders either.

— Kate Garraway