Hippopotamus Quotes

• There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

  Carl Sandburg

  Eagles, Want, Mud

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• There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

  Carl Sandburg

  Eagles, Christian Inspirational, Literature

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• Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus or just a really cool opotamus?

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Really Cool

  "Do You Believe In Gosh?". Comedy album by Mitch Hedberg, 2008.

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• The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?

  Erma Bombeck

  Wall, Food, Track

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• Once a month, a woman turns from a beautiful flower into an angry hippopotamus.

  Grace Helbig

  Beautiful, Flower, Months

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• Molecular genetics can show off some surprising relationships like, for example, the close relationship of whales to hippopotamuses, which I think nobody ever guessed until molecular data was looked at. The closest relatives of whales are hippopotamuses, even closer than any other cloven-hoofed animals.

  Richard Dawkins

  Animal, Thinking, Whales

  Source: www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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• I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Religion, Awake, I Can

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• A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Men, Giraffe

  John Ruskin (1894). “Letters on Art and Literature”

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• A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string, a dash of pepper. That ought to do it. And now comes the problem... biting into it!

  Shel Silverstein

  Food, Cake, Cooking

  Shel Silverstein, “Recipe For A Hippopotamus Sandwich”

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• It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over.

  Roger Caras

  Dog, Panty Hose, Looks

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• I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

  Ted Turner

  Snakes, Earth, Bunnies

  "Interview Showdown: Ted Turner 1, Publicist 0" by Michelle Kung, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

  Phyllis Bottome

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “Old Wine: A Novel”, p.86, Northwestern University Press

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• When business accepts help from the government, it can be like going to bed with a hippopotamus. It's nice and warm for the moment, but then your bedmate rolls over and crushes you.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Crush, Money, Nice

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• He said he would come in,' the White Queen went on, `because he was looking for a hippopotamus. Now, as it happened, there wasn't such a thing in the house, that morning.' Is there generally?' Alice asked in an astonished tone. Well, only on Thursdays,' said the Queen.

  Lewis Carroll

  Morning, Queens, White

  Lewis Carroll “Alice Through the Looking Glass”, Lulu.com

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• The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.

  Will Cuppy

  Animal, Looks, Ifs

  Will Cuppy, P. G. Wodehouse (2005). “How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes”, p.113, David R. Godine Publisher

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• I be more hipper than a hippopotamus
  Get off in your head like a neurologist

  E-40

  Hip Hop, Neurologists

  Song: Sprinkle Me, Album: In a Major Way, 1995

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• A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mistake, Men, Inferiority

  "Charles Dickens: A Critical Study". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1906.

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• There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

  Bertrand Russell

  Funny, Men, Weight Loss

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.370, Routledge

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• The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.

  T. S. Eliot

  Sleep, Night, Church

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• Emily said ... Well, I read that it's important to sleep. While you sleep, the hippopotamus in your brain replays things that happend during the day, e.g. what you studied. So therefore it remembers it for you.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Sleep, Brain, Important

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “Dreaming of Amelia”, p.345, Pan Macmillan

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• And you came back to Lyrian?" Galloran said in disbelief. "Believe it or not, I came through the same hippopotamus that brought me here the first time. Jumped into the tank on purpose. I wanted to keep others from wasting their time pursuing the Word. And I couldn't ditch Rachel." Galloran smiled. "Truly, you are possessed by that species of madness that begets heroism.

  Brandon Mull

  Believe, Tanks, Heroism

  Brandon Mull (2012). “Seeds of Rebellion”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• I have never been able to entertain a God-idea which was not integrally related to the fact of chipmunks, squirrels, hippopotamuses, galaxies, and light years.

  Joseph Sittler

  Squirrels, Light, Years

  Joseph Sittler, Steven Bouma-Prediger, Peter W. Bakken (2000). “Evocations of Grace: The Writings of Joseph Sittler on Ecology, Theology, and Ethics”, p.77, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

  Zahi Hawass

  Mean, Found, Crocodiles

  "The king of the pharaohs" by Tim Radford, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2003.

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• There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now that’s formalism.

  Alain Robbe-Grillet

  Zebras, Cartoon

  Alain Robbe-Grillet, Richard Howard (1989). “For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction”, p.43, Northwestern University Press

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• A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city.

  Herb Caen

  Girl, Flower, Dark

  Herb Caen (1967). “San Francisco, City on Golden Hills”

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