I be more hipper than a hippopotamus
Get off in your head like a neurologist — E-40
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar. — Carl Sandburg
Once a month, a woman turns from a beautiful flower into an angry hippopotamus. — Grace Helbig
It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over. — Roger Caras
Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus? — Mitch Hedberg
Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus! — Phyllis Bottome
The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be. — Will Cuppy
Hippo Quotes
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself. — Saint Augustine
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
Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all. — Saint Augustine
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
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. — Saint Augustine
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
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
And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks! — Jack Kerouac
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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