Reptiles Quotes
44 quotes by 42 authors
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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
— William Blake
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I have dogs, and it's no secret that I find reptiles interesting, but the thing about reptiles is that they really just wanna be left…
— Nicolas Cage
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I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.
— Nicolas Cage
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To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough…
— Humphry Davy
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Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each…
— Richard Owen
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What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I'm always keen to use my body in my work, so I'm looking forward to the motion capture for Smaug. Both Gollum and King Kong…
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.
— Edmund Burke
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High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit — reptiles and eagles.
— Jean le Rond d'Alembert
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I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished abound. There's a…
— May Kendall
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A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print -Reptiles- you have given such…
— M.C. Escher
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It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all…
— Elizabeth Kolbert
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And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land…
— George Washington Cable
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This is a unique aquarium in that a large portion of its collection features freshwater species, and it specializes in fish, amphibians and reptiles from…
— John Grant
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America eats its youth like reptiles...Educat e yourself before they dumb you down.
— Ice Cube
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What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited…
— Carl Sagan
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And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been destroyed. And I…
— Yann Martel
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If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it for the reptile from whom it…
— Albert Einstein
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