Frogs Quotes - Page 7

• I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Men, Blind

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud forests, rain forests, ice pack, boreal forests, coral reefs, forests of deciduous trees, conifer and palm.

  Eban Goodstein

  Rain, Home, Butterfly

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• Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Mind, Advertising

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• EPMD in effect, I'm clockin' mad green
  Like Kermit the Frog, sloppy like Boss Hog,
  Girl was runnin' wild...ate her like a corn dog.

  PMD

  Girl, Dog, Rap

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• You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

  Brian Tracy

  Tadpoles, Ponds, Enough

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat that Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you have two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.

  Brian Tracy

  Two, Firsts, Time Management

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you’re a long-time Thor fan you know there’s kind of a tradition from time to time of somebody else picking up that hammer. Beta Ray Bill was a horse-faced alien guy who picked up the hammer. At one point Thor was a frog. So I think if we can accept Thor as a frog and a horse-faced alien, we should be able to accept a woman being able to pick up that hammer and wield it for a while, which surprisingly we’ve never really seen before.

  Jason Aaron

  Horse, Thinking, Long

  "Marvel Comics Writers Explain Why They're Making Thor a Woman". Interview with Eliana Dockterman, time.com. July 15, 2014.

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• If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of the green frog skin, by people who are mindful of their own self, forgetting about the wants of others.

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Self, People, Greed

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• Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Religious, Ocean

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.105, Image

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• I got a smile that'll make the mirror crack,
  And I seem to stay under clouds that's pitch black.
  So when it rains, it pours, and when it pours, I'm soaked.
  I contracted lung cancer from third hand smoke,
  And I'm like the frog that's dying to be a prince,
  The boy who cried wolf and no one was convinced.
  The man who hit lotto and lost his ticket,
  In a rainstorm...and struck by lightning trying to get it.

  GZA

  Cancer, Rain, Rap

  Song: Life Is a Movie

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• There are two kinds of women: those who marry princes and those who marry frogs. The frogs never become princes, but it is an acknowledged fact that a prince may very well, in the course of an ordinary marrige, gradually, at first almost imperceptibly, turn into a frog. Happy the woman who after twenty-five years still wakes up beside the prince she fell in love with.

  Stephen Mitchell

  Years, Two, Twenties

  Stephen Mitchell (1999). “The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults”, Harmony

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• The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.

  James McBride

  Jesus, Men, Finest

  James McBride (2006). “The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.132, Penguin

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• As we passed under a streetlamp I noticed, beside my own bobbing shadow, another great, leaping grotesquerie that had an uncanny suggestion of the frog world about it . . . judging from the shadow, it was soaring higher and more gaily than myself. 'Very well,' you will say, 'Why didn’t you turn around. That would be the scientific thing to do.' But let me tell you it is not done ― not on an empty road at midnight.

  Loren Eiseley

  Judging, Shadow, World

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• Frog catching is the most fun a human being can have while on this earth.

  Jase Robertson

  Fun, Earth, Catching

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• Tonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and the pond was still. But one big frog, bright green like a poster-paint frog, didn't jump, so I waved my arm and stamped to scare it, and it jumped suddenly, and I jumped, and then everything in the pond jumped, and I laughed and laughed.

  Annie Dillard

  Couple, Scare, Ponds

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.119, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!

  Ron Carlson

  School, Taught, Facts

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• If The Muppet Show had a basketball team, the score would always be Frog 99, Chaos 98.

  Jerry Juhl

  Basketball, Team, Chaos

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• There was some women in a café the other week that I was sat in, and she came up and she sat down with her mate and she was talkin' loudly goin' on about "oh the baby's lovely." They said it's got, er, lovely big eyes, er, really big hands and feet. Now that doesn't sound like a nice baby to me. I felt like sayin' it sounds like a frog. But I thought I don't know her, there's only so much you can say to a stranger. I don't know what kept me from sayin' it.

  Karl Pilkington

  Baby, Nice, Eye

  "The Podfather Trilogy", Episode 1: Halloween, 2006.

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• I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be killed, boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behaviour.

  Charles Handy

  Change, Water, Alive

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• That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a frog in a pan of hot water, it jumps out. If you drop it in a pan of cold water, then turn the heat up slowly, you can roast it to death.

  Clive Thompson

  Funny, Animal, Appreciate

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• You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.

  E. B. White

  Jokes, Dies

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• You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.

  Terry Pratchett

  Girl, People, Giving

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• Your culture is your limit; if you can't go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lakes, Culture, Littles

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• If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.

  Nalini Nadkarni

  Art, Grief, Years

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• Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.

  Mason Cooley

  Waiting, Tongue

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