Alligators Quotes

• Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

  Cordell Hull

  Funny, Epic, Rivers

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  It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Remember You, Remembers You

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

  Bill Haley

  Crocodiles, Dark Tower Series

  Song: See You Later, Alligator, Album: Rock Around the Clock

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• Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

  Dan Rather

  Wisdom, Creeks, Taunting

  "Sign-off" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. March 07, 2005.

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• I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.

  Muhammad Ali

  Mean, Greatness, Rocks

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Mar 04, 2013

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• Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Kindness, Trouble, Bigger

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• You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.

  Phyllis Diller

  Compliments You, Shoes, Barefoot

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

  Richard Miller

  Wrestling, Writing, Way

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• Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Owning A Pet, Adorable, Literature

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• I’m also fascinated by the difference between terror and fear. Fear says, “Do not actually put your hand in the alligator,” while terror says, “Avoid Florida entirely because alligators exist.

  Mira Grant

  Florida, Hands, Differences

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• Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

  Jack Hanna

  Nests, Boat, Come Up

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• People wrestle alligators but not once has someone done it without an audience.

  Doug Stanhope

  People, Done, Audience

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• Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems.

  Mary Oliver

  Lying, Red, Study

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• Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Animal, Forests, Common

  Henry Walter Bates (1875). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.253

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• You've got forever; and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever; and it's a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators.

  Jim Thompson

  Forever, Inches, Miles

  Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

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• I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust [tree].

  Davy Crockett

  Horse, Turtles, Ohio

  Davy Crockett (1834). “Sketches and eccentricities of Col. David Crockett,: of West Tennessee”, p.164

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• My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.

  Jim Fowler

  Father, Adventure, Tree

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• The Marquis sighed. "I thought it was just a legend," he said. "Like the alligators in the sewers of New York City." Old Bailey nodded, sagely: "What, the big white buggers? They're down there. I had a friend lost a head to one of them." A moment of silence. Old Naeiley handed the statue back to the Marquis. Then he raised his hand, and snapped it, like a crocodile hand, at the Carabas. "It was OK," gurned Old Bailey with a grin that was most terrible to behold. "He had another.

  Neil Gaiman

  New York, Hands, Cities

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• Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean, there lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame.

  Tony Joe White

  Girl, Mean, Evil

  Song: Polk Salad Annie, Album: Black and White

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• My number one rule is to keep that camera rolling. Even if it's shaky or slightly out of focus, I don't give a rip. Even if a big old alligator is chewing me up I want to go down and go, 'Crikey!' just before I die. That would be the ultimate for me.

  Steve Irwin

  Rip, Numbers, Giving

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• She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid through it, silent death. It was a place where snakes could slither and bogs could suck the shoe right off your foot. And it was a place, she thought, that went bright and beautiful with the twinkling of fireflies, where wildflowers thrived in the shade and the stingy light. Where an eagle could soar like a king. There was no beauty without risk. No life without it.

  Nora Roberts

  Beautiful, Summer, Kings

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• Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.

  Terry Brooks

  Writing, Florida, Connections

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• A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.

  Homer

  Gun, Knives, Tools

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• It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.

  George Foreman

  Hurt, Thinking, Dust

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• It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts.

  Kelly Brook

  Thinking, Snakes, Skins

  "Kelly Brook fashion verdict: Model bares skin to support Peta - but is floaty dress better?". www.mirror.co.uk. September 15, 2011.

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