Kangaroos Quotes

• When you come across with a problem in your life, do not always try to solve it; make a long jump like a kangaroo and continue your way! Sometimes problems must be leaped over without touching them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Long, Touching

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• Evolution is a snail, but Revolution is a kangaroo; one crawls, other jumps!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Revolution, Evolution, Snail

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• It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.

  Sid Waddell

  Trying, Trampolines, Darts

  "A shocking sight at the theatre" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2006.

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• With kangaroos, you say 'Sit!' and they start boxing with you. They're nuts!

  Jerry O'Connell

  Nuts, Boxing

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• I liked the koala, wallaby, and I chilled with a kangaroo a bit. There was a wombat that I quite enjoyed also

  Todd Barry

  Koalas, Wombats, Bits

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• I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.

  Steve Irwin

  Nature, Fear, Koalas

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

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• Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.

  Steve Irwin

  Thinking, Government, Australia

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• Two kangaroos were talking to each other, and one said, 'I hope it doesn't rain today. I hate it when the children play inside.

  Henny Youngman

  Children, Hate, Rain

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• Your heart keeps jumping like a kangaroo, floating like an onion in a bowl of stew.

  Fabian

  Heart, Animal, Jumping

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• The chimpanzees in the zoos do it, Some courageous kangaroos do it Let's do it, let's fall in love. I'm sure giraffes on the sly do it, Even eagles as they fly do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.

  Cole Porter

  Falling In Love, Zoos, Eagles

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• If you were a kangaroo you'd forget you've got a joey in your pouch.

  Steve Fowler

  Forget You, Joey, Ifs

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• There is nothing more delightful than to scoop up a wild joey in your arms and smell the wind and eucalyptus in the coats of the gentle kangaroo or the deep-earth smell of tiny wallabies. It is wonderful to see the trust in their eyes and the gradual realization that you mean them no harm.

  Stella Reid

  Nature, Mean, Eye

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• Kofi Annan's kangaroo court [is] a clear and present danger to the war on terror and to Americans fighting it all over the world.

  Tom DeLay

  War, Fighting, World

  "Court Boycott Hits US Aid Budget". news.bbc.co.uk. July 16, 2004.

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• What will happen to the spirit of this ancient dreaming land without the great mobs of kangaroos bounding across the song lines, energizing the land? Will the sunset and dawn mourn the passing of the creatures who danced in their light?

  Sue Arnold

  Dream, Song, Future

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• Envy the kangaroo. That pouch setup is extraordinary; the baby crawls out of the womb when it is about two inches long, gets into the pouch, and proceeds to mature. I'd have a baby if it would develop in my handbag.

  Rita Rudner

  Baby, Pregnancy, Two

  "Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature". Book by Rita Rudner, 1992.

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• How true, how true" said the Sour Kangaroo, "And from now on, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to protect them with you!" And the Young Kangaroo in her pouch said "Me too!

  Dr. Seuss

  Said, Sour, Young

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• When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.

  Taylor Lautner

  Crazy, Nice, Swimming

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• Let me introduce myself. My name is, uh, Kangaroo... Kangaroo - Captain Kangaroo ... I'm the keeper here of the Treasure House.

  Bob Keeshan

  Names, House, Treasure

  "Fictional character: Captain Kangaroo". TV Series "Captain Kangaroo", October 3, 1955.

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• If you hit a kangaroo in the street and you have to pull out on the side of the road, it can get back up and murder you.

  Vince Staples

  Sides, Murder, Streets

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-have proved suitable for domestication. There still are no domestic kangaroos.

  Jared Diamond

  Animal, Nuts, Plant

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• It is in the national interest to have the Flying Kangaroo. It's in the interests of our tourism industry. It's in the interests of jobs here in Australia.

  Anthony Albanese

  Jobs, Australia, Flying

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

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• Besides my professional goals, I have a couple of private ones, my man. One of those is to pet a kangaroo before I leave Australia. I understand there's lots of Eastern Grays around this area. What do you say? Are you in?' Bergman looked at him like he'd just made the worst financial investment of his life. 'Kangaroos are wild animals. I've heard they claw like girl fighters and kick like jackhammers. You're going to get your skull crushed.' Cole held up a finger. 'Or I'm going to pet a kangaroo. How cool would that be?

  Jennifer Rardin

  Girl, Couple, Animal

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• Are there any mythical beasts which aren't simple pastiches of nature? Centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, griffons, chimeras, sphinxes, manticores, and the like don't speak well for the human imagination. None is as novel as a kangaroo or starfish.

  William Poundstone

  Simple, Imagination, Sphinx

  "Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge". Book by William Poundstone, 1988.

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• This is your court and you possess the force to celebrate the trial and convict me on the basis of your lists of accusations, the public one and the secret one, and you can dictate a sentence prepared by the political and security apparatuses that are behind this trial. But I too possess a will obtained from the justice of our cause and the determination of our people to reject any decision from this 'kangaroo court'.

  Ahmad Sa'adat

  Determination, People, Justice

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• I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

  Mark Twain

  Dance, Party, Butterfly

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