Best Tropical Quotes
93 Tropical quotes by 86 unique authors
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I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.
— Rickie Lee Jones
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of…
— Adam Zagajewski
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It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the…
— Henry Walter Bates
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If you're ever shipwrecked on a tropical island and you don't know how to speak the natives' language, just say "Poppy-oomy." I bet it means…
— Jack Handey
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People often find it easier to refute a fake extreme opponent than a more cautious real one, so they knock down the straw man instead.…
— Unknown Author
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All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.
— Marjory Stoneman Douglas
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Tropical rainforests [are] the only place you can go nowadays and not get ‘friended.’
— Rives
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The one-handed palmer can always reach higher, they say. They may be right, but the result is that nearly every line-out is like a tropical…
— Unknown Author
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Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.
— E. O. Wilson
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For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow…
— James Dwight Dana
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Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from…
— Jared Diamond
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Today there remain but a few small areas on the world's map unmarked by explorers' trails. Human courage and endurance have conquered the Poles; the…
— Roy Chapman Andrews
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Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.
— Gloria Swanson
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Scuba Blue offers a feeling of escape as it is reminiscent of a tropical ocean. This stirring and energizing shade takes us off to an…
— Leatrice Eiseman
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Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest.
— Kim Jong-un
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A strip club is one of the few places where two groups voluntarily come together who have such precipitous contrasts in net worth and familiarity…
— Tim Dorsey
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The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and really smell the…
— Jack Kerouac
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China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main market for rhino horn. Tigers are being killed for…
— Mark Carwardine
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I'm a tropical weather cruiser. I like surfing, you know. I like being on the beach.
— Michael B. Jordan
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It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their…
— Tim Cahill
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The mangosteen, queen of the tropical fruit.
— David Fairchild
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You have these 'hot towers', tropical storm clouds acting like chimneys to carry heat to the upper atmosphere.
— Peter May
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The hurricanes are following the tropical ocean temperature. The tropical ocean temperature is following the Northern Hemisphere. And it's very hard now to believe that…
— Kerry Emanuel
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Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too.
— Carl Schurz
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People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.
— Carrie Fisher
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