Snakes Quotes

383 Snakes quotes by 308 unique authors

I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that. — Britt Ekland
My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar,… — Mem Fox
I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked. That said, in… — Matthew Gray Gubler
We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and found. How fine… — David Sobel
All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm… — Rufus Wainwright
… what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling… — Edsger Dijkstra
You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing. — Bob Dylan
That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice. — Smokey Robinson
The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone takes.… — Etgar Keret
I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake. — Edward Abbey
Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes, — James Cameron
Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might… — Mary Jane Ward
To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living. — Ambrose Bierce
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps. — Douglas William Jerrold
When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere. — William Stafford
In fact, it makes me mad when someone kills snakes or dogs or cats or horses. I don't even like to eat meat - that… — Charles Manson
Medusa was fascinating to work with because I gave her a snake's body so that she could pull herself with her hands which gave her… — Ray Harryhausen
Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water… — Luther Burbank
It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon… — Jack Gilbert
Maybe it’s animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of… — Carol Emshwiller
A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so slowly it seems… — Cameron Dokey
Street politics is what happens in our everyday life, living in the bando. It's the environment around us and what we doing in the streets.… — Quavo
My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue. — Bear Grylls

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