Jungle Quotes - Page 8

• The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.

  Tahir Shah

  Waiting, Village, Dangerous

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.88, Lulu.com

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• I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading, Grew Up

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• It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Christmas, Country

  Ronald Reagan (1968). “I goofed: the wise and curious sayings of Ronald Reagan, 33rd Governor of California”

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• Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Strong, Home, Sick

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• There's not much pressure on the golf Tour. Walking to the first tee is in no way comparable to walking through the jungle in combat

  Larry Nelson

  Golf, Way, Pressure

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• I've made a couple of movies in the jungle, and I don't want to go back to the jungle.

  Christopher Walken

  Couple, Want, Made

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You guys (Boko Haram) are trying so hard to convince everybody that you're such badasses. But all you've done with this kidnapping is highlight who the real badasses are, the kids you kidnapped. Compared to a teenager who knows that her desire for an education could get her dragged into a snake infested jungle to be sold as a bribe to some demented, stick-chewing cartoon villain but still gets up and goes to class everyday, fully aware of that danger - compared to their courage - I'd say Boko Haram is a bunch of little girls. But, you know what? You don't deserve that compliment.

  Jon Stewart

  Girl, Badass, Teenager

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• I was a grunt, walking around in the jungle of Vietnam, trying not to find the enemy. Because I am so big, they were going to give me either a heavy radio or a huge machine gun to carry. I carried a radio.

  Bob Gunton

  Gun, Giving, Enemy

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

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• I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted me. I could work in a studio, but I would never really feel at home.

  Werner Herzog

  Home, Alaska, Sahara Desert

  "Interview with Director Werner Herzog. 'I Am Clinically Sane'". Interview with David Gordon Smith, www.spiegel.de. February 12, 2010.

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• I came home for a week after I finished filming Rambo because, after being in the jungle for three months, all I wanted to do was walk in the Highlands.

  Graham McTavish

  Home, Three, Rambo

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• It may be that to eat and be eaten are the same thing in the end. My wisdom tells me that this is probably so. We are all made of the same stuff, remember, we of the Jungle, you of the City. The same substance composes us-the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star-we are all one, all moving to the same end. Remember that when you no longer remember me, my child.

  P. L. Travers

  Stars, Children, Moving

  P. L. Travers (2014). “Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Whoever had the bright idea of putting Indiana Jones in a leather jacket and a fedora in the jungle ought to be dragged into the street and shot.

  Harrison Ford

  Ideas, Leather Jackets, Indiana

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

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• I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive. It's like, to walk in the jungle, or to do anything where there's a certain tightrope wire aspect you need to be instinctive. And you have to be comfortable at it also.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Cutting, Wire, Needs

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• The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 'Lipstick Jungle' was on the air for 20 episodes - I loved 'Lipstick Jungle.'

  Candace Bushnell

  Air, Episodes, Lipstick

  "‘The Carrie Diaries’ On The CW: Candace Bushnell, ‘Sex And The City’ Creator, On Carrie’s Backstory And The Boys Before Big". Interview by Laura Prudom, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2013.

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• Unpredictable as a hungry lion, he might be feared by everyone else, but he never ripped out my throat, only licked me, and, if his tongue was a little rough sometimes, it was worth it to walk beside the king of the jungle.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Kings, Hungry Lion, Littles

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.18, Delacorte Press

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• When you were sleeping on the sofa I put my ear to your ear and listened to the echo of your dreams. That is the ocean I want to dive in, merge with the bright fish, plankton and pirate ships. I walk up to people on the street that kind of look like you and ask them the questions I would ask you. Can we sit on a rooftop and watch stars dissolve into smoke rising from a chimney? Can I swing like Tarzan in the jungle of your breathing? I don’t wish I was in your arms, I just wish I was peddling a bicycle toward your arms.

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Dream, Stars, Ocean

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• Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from the jungle yet the developed world thinks nothing of hauling in magnificent wild creatures like swordfish, tuna, halibut, shark, and salmon for our meals. The fact is that the global slaughter of marine wildlife is simply the largest massacre of wildlife on the planet.

  Paul Watson

  Marine, Thinking, Hunting

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• My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

  Julie Christie

  Children, Tea, India

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• I don't see [the jungle] so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. It's just - Nature here is vile and base. I wouldn't see anything erotical here. I would see fornication and asphyxiation and choking and fighting for survival and growing and just rotting away. Of course, there's a lot of misery. But it is the same misery that is all around us. The trees here are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don't think they sing. They just screech in pain.

  Werner Herzog

  Pain, Fighting, Thinking

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• Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our pastors and masters run our society, however much they pull to pieces that which they claim to be keeping intact, nature remains fecund, human beings are born with human traits, sometimes human strength outweighs human weakness, and human grace shows itself amid human ugliness. ‘In the bloodiest times,’ as our play has it, ‘there are kind people.’

  Eric Bentley

  Running, Spring, Flower

  Eric Bentley (2008). “Bentley on Brecht”, p.200, Northwestern University Press

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• Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE! Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you're over here like this? Calvin:...I don't think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.

  Bill Watterson

  Mom, Kings, Nice

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• But I'll always love you, and I'll always miss you and I'll never forget that It's okay to put dragons in the jungle and tears on a tiger

  Sharon M. Draper

  Love You, Dragons, Missing

  Sharon M. Draper (2006). “Tears of a Tiger”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• She led him past the engine room, which looked like a very dangerous, mechanized jungle gym, with pipes and pistons and tubes jutting from a central bronze sphere. Cables resembling giant metal noodles snaked across the floor and ran up the walls. “How does that thing even work?” Percy asked. “No idea,” Annabeth said. “And I’m the only one besides Leo who can operate it.” “That’s reassuring.” “It should be fine. It’s only threatened to blow up once.” “You’re kidding, I hope.” She smiled. “Come on.

  Rick Riordan

  Wall, Blow, Past

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• In the end, only Leif believed that you were still alive. He thought you might be hiding somewhere, playing a game. As the rest of us grieved, Leif searched the jungle for you day after day.” “When did he finally stop?” I asked. “Yesterday.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Games, Yesterday, Alive

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Magic Study”, p.36, Harlequin

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