Quotes About Hippopotamus
If you were to go to the National Museum in Addis Ababa, you would walk into a huge room filled with literally tens of tons of fossils, and most of them would be elephants and rhinos and hippopotamus and monkeys and giraffes and antelopes and so on. Hominids are very rare in the landscape, and it's very rare to find them.
~ Donald Johanson
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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
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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
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Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus or just a really cool opotamus?
~ Mitch Hedberg
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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
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Jay lurched in one direction, jerked back, lurched in another, tripped for no reason. He finally made it through a gauntlet of invisible obstacles and crouched behind a water fountain shaped like a hippopotamous throwing up.
~ Adam Rex
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A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city.
~ Herb Caen
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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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Hippopotamus, As the leaves fall to the ground Mechs now leave Japan
~ Jo Walton
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You have more chances of giving birth to a live hippopotamus," said Requin, "than the best thief alive has of making it past the cordon drawn around my vault.
~ Scott Lynch
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The hippopotamus is said to have a tender heart by those who have eaten that delicacy baked, so a thick skin is not necessarily a reliable index to what is inside the man.
~ Eric Temple Bell
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I shoot the Hippopotamus With bullets made of platinum, Because if I use leaden ones His hide is sure to flatten 'em.
~ belloc hilaire iii
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That's as preposterous as a H-I-P-P-O-P-O-T-A-M-U-S," Jessica said.
~ Megan McDonald
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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
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WHERE'S MY COW?! IS THAT MY COW?! HRRRUUUUGGGH!!!! THAT'S NOT MY COW! THAT'S A HIPPOPOTAMOUS!
~ Terry Pratchett
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If a hippo ever wants to fight, just walk away.
~ Dan Brown
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The hippopotamus is a vegetarian but ferociously territorial (you might find that true of certain vegans you know), and will flip a raft or bite it in half: once one is in the water, the crocodiles show up like a bunch of starving hobos descending on a boxcar full of fried chicken.
~ Tom Robbins
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barmen, radyoyu açm??t?. bir haber sunucusu bir sirk yang?n?ndan bahsediyordu ve ÅŸöyle denildiÄŸini iÅŸittim: ve hipopotamlar tanklar?nda haÅŸlan?p öldüler. bu ayr?nt?lar? radyo spikerlerinin karakteristik tatl? dilli, hevesli üslubuyla anlat?yordu...
~ Jack Kerouac
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The hippopotamus's dayIs passed in sleep; at night he hunts;God works in a mysterious way—The Church can sleep and feed at once.
~ T. S. Eliot
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Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!
~ Phyllis Bottome
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Mali means "the hippopotamus," which is often used in association with Sundiata, as are the lion, the symbol of the Keita clan, and the buffalo of his mother's clan.
~ Patricia C. McKissack
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If a hippo ever wants to fight, just walk away.
~ Dan Brown
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Frankly, I couldn't be more astonished that this guy was involved in something like this than if you came riding through my apartment on a hippopotamus.
~ Dan Rather
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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
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