Reptiles Quotes

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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. — William Blake
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
I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles. — Nicolas Cage
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
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
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
What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders… — Oliver Goldsmith
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
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
There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear. — Edmund Burke
High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit â€” reptiles and eagles. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
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
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
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
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
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
America eats its youth like reptiles...Educat e yourself before they dumb you down. — Ice Cube
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
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
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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