61 Reptilian Quotes
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Famous Reptilian Quotes
I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard. — Trevor Dunn
The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Humanity is actually under the control of dinosaur-like alien reptiles called the Babylon Brotherhood who must consume human blood to maintain their human appearance. — David Icke
Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels. — John Muir
The snake moves, erasing its tracks with its tail. — Albanian Proverbs
And there's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk. — Leigh Bardugo
the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself. — Francis Bacon
To be aroused in the dark by five feet of cold, green snake gliding over one's face is unpleasant. — David Livingstone
A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle. — Ambrose Bierce
Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings. — Juvenal
With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down — Sappho
Well, we have found salamanders are very resistant to cancer. Inject a carcinogen into a salamander and it regulates the growth and turns it into an extra limb. — Annie Jacobsen
The Scorpion connects with the Serpent through the Dragon. — Sayings
Feeling animalistic. Feeling Hyena. Feeling Wolf. Feeling Dog. I am tongue and heart. — David Wojnarowicz
A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man. — Martin Delany
Short Reptilian Quotes
- Misogyny is at the reptilian brain stem of a lot of right-wing politics. — Bradley Whitford
- A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity. — David Icke
- Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so. — Iain Banks
- A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance. — Colin McEnroe
Reptile Quotes
When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles? — Saadi Shirazi
Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water. — Ambrose Bierce
Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The stress response is incredibly ancient evolutionarily. Fish, birds and reptiles secrete the same stress hormones we do, yet their metabolism doesn’t get messed up the way it does in people and other primates. — Robert M. Sapolsky
Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant. — Julia Roberts
Reptiles and amphibians are sometimes thought of as primitive, dull and dimwitted. In fact, of course, they can be lethally fast, spectacularly beautiful, surprisingly affectionate and very sophisticated. — David Attenborough
High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit — reptiles and eagles. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
The Loch Ness monster doesn't exist either. Loch Ness is just not big enough to hide a thirty foot amphibian or reptile for hundreds of years. — Brian Jones
You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap! — Ambrose Bierce
An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live. — William Cowper
Crocodile Quotes
Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first. — Steve Irwin
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
Runaway from a tiger and face a crocodile. — Thai Proverbs
There’s a crocodile in every big river. — Filipino Proverbs
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile. — Bill Haley
Don’t think there are no crocodiles just because the water is calm. — African Proverbs
Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't undervalue the investigation of commonalities but can't avoid the conclusion that diversity has been relatively neglected, especially as concerns the brain. — Theodore Holmes Bullock
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last. — Winston Churchill
Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last. — Winston Churchill
People Writing About Reptilian
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 David Icke |
118 | 1756 |
 Trevor Dunn |
33 | 192 |
 F. Scott Fitzgerald |
698 | 8587 |
 John Muir |
350 | 8078 |
 Albanian Proverbs |
109 | 5 |
 Leigh Bardugo |
27 | 64 |
More Reptilian Quotes
Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and slick. A zipper is where the Industrial Revolution meets the Cobra Cult. — Tom Robbins
I have a passion for big cats, I like big snakes. There is something about snakes that is so wise, they have this uncanny perfection. I'd like to get inside their reptilian heads. — Anton Szandor LaVey
I always had an affinity for lizards. I've always felt somewhat close to them. They're reptiles. I find myself feeling somewhat reptilian at times. — Johnny Depp
As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses. — Julian Sands
The goal of cable news executives is not to make me an informed citizen of Earth. Their mission is to tickle the dark reptilian depths of my brain and hook me so they can then barter with my soul for advertising revenue. — Guy P. Harrison
The families in positions of great financial power obsessively interbreed with each other. But I'm not talking about one Earth race, Jewish or non-Jewish. I'm talking about a genetic network that operates through all races, this bloodline being a fusion of human and reptilian genes. — David Icke
But this is not a world of free freights. One pays according to an iron schedule--for every strength the balanced weakness; for every high a corresponding low; for every fictitious god-like moment an equivalent time in reptilian slime. For every feat of telescoping long days and weeks of life into mad magnificent instants, one must pay with shortened life, and, oft-times, with savage usury added. — Jack London
[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape, protoplasmic-ooze shape. A shape that calls straight through civilization to our reptilian brains. — Cynthia Heimel
One thing we've learned about Donald Trump - this candidate first, president-elect, and now president - is that he has this sort of reptilian instinct for rooting out supposed enemies and finding people he can whip up distrust into rage. — Ben H. Winters
The only one that's appeared in my dreams is the one from Aliens. H.R. Giger's version of that Necronom was almost like a tic. It's reptilian. That creature is like a baby and tic combined. It's very frightening. It scared the hell out of me, it really did. — Lance Henriksen
The Visitors reported by contactees, abductees, and other witnesses may, in fact, be a highly advanced amphibian or reptilian culture from an extraterrestrial world, who evolved into the dominant species on their planet millions of years ago and who have interacted in Earth's evolution as explorers, observers, caretakers, and genetic engineers. — Brad Steiger
Reptilian green the wrinkled throat, Green as a bough of yew the beard; He bent his head, and so I smote — Yvor Winters
It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this reasoning is sound.... Birds, as a group, did descend from dinosaurs and ... all 8,600 species of birds living today carry some inheritance from their reptilian ancestors. — David M. Raup
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as the human body connects us with the mammals and displays numerous relics of earlier evolutionary stages going back to even the reptilian age, so the human psyche is likewise a product of evolution which, when followed up to its origins, show countless archaic traits. — Carl Jung
But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see. — Gregory Maguire
However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we're not a separate tribe. — Ian McEwan
Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove. — Matt Taibbi
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