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
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
A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah. — Ronald Reagan
When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers. — African Proverbs
Ride the elephant to catch the grasshoppers. — Thai Proverbs
When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets hurt. — African Proverbs
I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly. — Teju Cole
When an elephant is in trouble, even a frog will kick him. — Indian Proverbs
My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating - and he knows when to stop working. — Harry S. Truman
GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone. — Ambrose Bierce
I saw a giraffe with a short neck
That was sad
Or a deer — Bo Burnham
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself. — Saint Augustine
Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all. — Saint Augustine
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar. — Carl Sandburg
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. — Saint Augustine
And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks! — Jack Kerouac
It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over. — Roger Caras
I know at least two people who have never been killed by hippos. — Bill Engvall
Believe that you may understand. — Saint Augustine
Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden. — Saint Augustine
Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal. — George Ayittey
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Hippopotamus Quotes
I be more hipper than a hippopotamus
Get off in your head like a neurologist — E-40
I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em. — Hilaire Belloc
Once a month, a woman turns from a beautiful flower into an angry hippopotamus. — Grace Helbig
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are. — Saint Augustine
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. — Saint Augustine
Hungry Hungry Hippos is so depressing. You continuously chomp away at those balls and you are alone and it's your birthday.' — Thom Yorke
I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about. — Karl Pilkington
The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to sexuality. If any single man was responsible, it was Augustine of Hippo who murdered his way to sainthood spouting on about the sins located in his genitals. — Derek Jarman
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
I believe that every paper in the country should have one headline that when you read it, you laugh so hard you can't stand it. It has to be that way. What about a headline like this: 'Hippo Eats Dwarf'? How good is that? You read that headline, and you immediately close the paper and say, 'Wow, it's gonna be a great day. — Lewis Black
I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered. — Laura Mvula
African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen. — Jared Diamond
'You told me, Father, that after my past life it is still possible to become another St. Augustine. I don't doubt it, and today more than yesterday I want to try to prove it.' But you have to cut out sin courageously from the root, as the holy Bishop of Hippo did. — Josemaria Escriva
We wandered the halls of an infinite magic nursing home, led by a hippo nurse with a torch. Really, just an ordinary night for the Kanes. — Rick Riordan
Me, I was still in the pygmy hippo in a skirt, singing lusty songs about Solomon's private life and a giant stone back and forth through the air as I climbed out of the quarry at the edge of the site. — Jonathan Stroud
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd rather be wrong with Dante and Shakespeare and Milton, with Augustine of Hippo and Francis of Assisi, with Dr. Johnson, Blake, and Dostoevsky than right with Voltaire, Rousseau, the Huxleys, Herbert Spencer, H. G. Wells, and Bernard Shaw. — Malcolm Muggeridge
You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence. — Joseph Conrad
Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days before printing we had limited opportunities for satire. — Jonathan Stroud
We were born in a Jewish world, as part of a Jewish faith tradition. We had to translate ourselves into the neo-Platonic thinking Greek world; that took us about 400 years. Then, finally a man named Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo, recast Christianity in terms of neo-Platonic thought. — John Shelby Spong
Augustine of Hippo used to say that, but for God's grace, he should have been capable of committing any crime; and it is when we feel this sincerely, that we are most likely to be really improving, and best able to give assistance to others without moral loss to ourselves. — Henry Parry Liddon
Somewhere behind me, Zia yelled, "Hippo!" Which I thought was a little late. She stumbled toward me over the rocking deck, the tip of her staff on fire. Our ghostly pal Setne floated behind her, grinning with delight. "There is it!" Setne shook his diamond pink rings. "Told ya Apophis would send a monster to kill you." "You're so smart!" I shouted. "Now, how do we stop it? — Rick Riordan
But this plan of yous!' Tawaret shuddered, causing a tsunami of jiggling hippo flesh. — Rick Riordan
Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos. — Elizabeth Wein
You might not think a hippo could inspire terror. Screaming “Hippo!” doesn’t have the same impact as screaming “Shark!” But I’m telling you—as the Egyptian Queen careened to one side, its paddle wheel lifting completely out of the water, and I saw that monster emerge from the deep, I nearly discovered the hieroglyphs for accident in my pants. — Rick Riordan
Somewhere behind me, Zia yelled, "Hippo!" Which I thought was a little late. ~Carter Kane — Rick Riordan
The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind. — Terry Pratchett
If a hippo ever wants to fight, just walk away. — Dan Brown
We traveled for two weeks with a pickled hippo. — Sara Gruen
His lion and hippo legs twitched. I wondered if netherworld monsters dreamed of chasing rabbits. — Rick Riordan
Curled up at the base of the scales, fast asleep, was the oddest monster I'd seen yet. It had the head of crocodile with a lion's mane. The front half of its body was a lion, but the back end was sleek, brown, and fat - a hippo, I decided. The odd bit was, the animal was tiny - I mean, no larger than an average poodle, which I suppose made him a hippodoodle. — Rick Riordan
If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers. There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul. — Yann Martel
The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too, by Jove! - breathe dead hippo, so as to speak, and not be contaminated. And there, don't you see? your strength comes in, the faith in your ability for the digging of unostentatious holes to bury the stuff in - your power of devotion, not to yourself, but to an obscure, back-breaking business. — Joseph Conrad
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