Quotes About Alligators

A few alligators are naturally of the vicious type and inclined to resent it when you prod them with a stick. You can find out which ones these are by prodding them.

Not in my swamp, with my alligators. -Pendergast

hunt v. 1. harvest The state of Florida preferred the word "harvest" to the word "hunt" when it allowed hunters to kill 35,000 alligators. 2. naturalize kill (ANIMALS) v. 1. harvest; see also hunt 2. manage wildlife 3. depopulate

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

A few alligators are naturally of the vicious type and inclined to resent it when you prod them with a stick. You can find out which ones these are by prodding them.

Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

We'll be right on the bayou." Parker nodded, deadpan. "Alligators and water moccasins, up close and personal." "Oh, Parker, for heaven's sake. Don't listen to him, Miranda. I've never seen any nasty things around there." "Except for Roo," Parker added. "She can be pretty nasty.

Okay, Dumb Diary, school has taught me a few things over the years. Once, it taught me the difference between alligators and crocodiles. (Even alligators and crocodiles don't really care. Just avoid both.)

Sometimes it seems like Florida is trying to kill its residents, doesn't it? It wants us to go away so that it can reclaim its swampy self, be left alone to its darkness—alligators, snakes, and roaches free from pavement and walls of condo buildings, and wildlife corridors butting up against superhighways.

I remember certain group gatherings that are hard to get up and leave from. I remember alligators and quicksand in jungle movies. (Pretty scary.) I remember opening jars that nobody else could open. I remember making home-made ice cream. I remember that I liked store-bought ice cream better. I remember hospital supply story windows. I remember stories of what hot dogs are made of. I remember Davy Crockett hats. And Davy Crockett just about everything else.

Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.

The guy walks around with a banana in his ear. And people are like, 'Why do you have a banana in your ear?' He says, 'To keep the alligators away! There are no alligators! See?

Buell declined to answer, instead telling me that he had to be careful around this part of the swamp because "them alligators are meshugganeh.

They looked so dangerous, like alligators. Really fast alligators wearing black. Ninja alligators. I decided not to use that one on Megan.

They looked so dangerous, like alligators. Really fast alligators wearing black. Ninja alligators.

I grew up in Mobile, Alabama - somebody's got to be from Mobile, right? - and Mobile sits at the confluence of five rivers, forming this beautiful delta. And the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes, birds of every flavor.

In the swamp the alligators drifted like patches of bad-assed water.

The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.

All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.

Alligators like on the banks by the creeping moss/ And use the sinews of their prey to do their daily floss.

Living in a stupid country is living in a marsh! You are surrounded by the reptiles and the alligators! Refusing hell is the best path to eliminate the hell!

If she had any sense at all, she'd clean out her desk and look for another job. Something safe and sane, like catching alligators or looking for land mines in Afghanistan.

Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories.