Zebras Quotes

• There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Limits

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• I asked the Zebra,
  are you black with white stripes?
  Or white with black stripes?
  And the zebra asked me,
  Are you good with bad habits?
  Or are you bad with good habits?

  Shel Silverstein

  White, Black, Stripes

  Shel Silverstein, “Who Does She Think She Is....”

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• I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits? Are you noisy with quiet times? Or are you quiet with noisy times? Are you happy with some sad days? Or are you sad with some happy days? Are you neat with some sloppy ways? Or are you sloppy with some neat ways? And on and on and on and on and on and on he went. I’ll never ask a zebra about stripes...again.

  Shel Silverstein

  White, Black, Stripes

  Shel Silverstein, “Who Does She Think She Is....”

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• Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

  Jodi Picoult

  White, Black, Stripes

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1316, Simon and Schuster

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• Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Butterfly, Thinking, Wind

  Song: Little Wing

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• How fast does a zebra have to run before it looks gray.

  Demetri Martin

  Running, Doe, Looks

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• God must've had a blast. painting the stripes on the zebra, hanging the stars in the sky, putting the gold in the sunset. What creativity!
  Stretching the neck of the giraffe, putting the flutter in the mockingbird's wings, planting the giggle in the hyena. And then, as a finale to a brilliant performance, He made a human who had the unique honour to bear the stamp, In His Image.

  Max Lucado

  Stars, Sunset, Creativity

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• A zebra does not change its spots.

  Al Gore

  Witty, Inspiration, Humor

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

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• I secretly want to be a zebra. That is why I always wear stripes.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Stripes, Want

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• Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!

  Ogden Nash

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• Somewhere, the zebra is dancing.

  Garth Stein

  Dancing

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• I can give or take elephants; I never can find the cheetah-but the zebras captivate me. They'd be one of the few things that would fit if we were lucky enough to live in a world that's black or white.

  Jodi Picoult

  Elephants, White, Giving

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are face-to-face with our worst times. The demon is us!

  Garth Stein

  Fear, Self, Worst Times

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• Though she be but little, she is fierce!

  William Shakespeare

  Tattoo, Fitness, Healing

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 323

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• I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it.

  Steven Wright

  Reading, Turns, Dictionary

  "The Simpsons", TV Series (1989– ). "The Last Temptation of Krust", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• A zebra can not change it's spots.

  Al Gore

  Stupid, Presidential, Spots

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• ...Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate their food cooked. You'd never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas for dinner or a lion charcoal-broiling a zebra steak. Cats don't often run to the oven with a mouse or bird they've captured, and a dog wouldn't naturally prepare its rabbit dinner in a stew.

  Dick Gregory

  Running, Dog, Cat

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• Pulling off a zebra-print dress can be challenging for some.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Challenges, Dresses, Print

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The Zebra is striped all over so that the Lion can see him and eat him. Some people say he is striped so that the Lion can not see him. These people believe that the stripes of the Zebra simulate the bars of sunlight falling through the tall jungle grasses and that therefore the Zebra is invisible and that the earth is flat.

  Will Cuppy

  Believe, Fall, People

  Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”

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• In the world of animation, you can be anything you wanna be. If you're a fat woman, you can play a skinny princess. If you're short wimpy guy, you can play a tall gladiator. If you're a white man, you can play an Arabian prince. And if you're a black man, you can play a donkey or a zebra.

  Chris Rock

  Princess, Men, Play

  "Rock's Riff On Animation: Right On Or Really Wrong?" by Christine Champ, www.mtv.com. March 7, 2012.

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• Scientists think they can now clone an all-white zebra. Now, I'm no expert, but isn't that a horse?

  Jay Leno

  Horse, Thinking, White

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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

  Cartoon, Hippopotamus

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

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• I'm not fighting with myself. Oh, my God. That's how I am. You know, the story of the hippo? The hippo comes to the monkey and said, listen, I'm not a hippo. So, he paint himself like a zebra. He said but he's still a hippo. He said but look at you, you're painted like a zebra but you are a hippo. So then he goes, you know, like I want be a little parrot. So, he put the colours on him and he comes to the monkey and said but, sorry, you are a hippo. So, in the end, you know, he comes and said I'm happy to be a hippo. This is who I am. So, I have to be who I am and he's happy being a hippo.

  Marat Safin

  Sorry, Fighting, Who I Am

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• They [zebras] looked like highly varnished animated toys.

  Elspeth Huxley

  Toys, Animated

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• I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.

  Yann Martel

  Overboard

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.110, Vintage Canada

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