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Quotes About Tropical

Guavas are fragrant, delicious tropical fruits that many Americans know only because they're frequently used in jellies. But these red-fleshed (and sometimes white-fleshed) fruits pack an amazing nutritional wallop. New
~ Jonny Bowden
Nadie sabe en dónde queda mi país, lo buscan entristeciéndose de miopía: no puede ser, tan pequeño ¿y es tanta su desgarradura, tanto su terremoto, tanta tortura militar, más trópico que el trópico?
~ Jorge Enrique Adoum
Where'd you get the coconuts?
~ Ernest Cline
I think pineapple is very sexy. It reminds me of bikinis and the beach.
~ Penn Badgley
Miami is just really fun whenever I go there. It's like this post-apocalyptic Barbie world: everything is pink, and there're palm trees everywhere.
~ Grimes
Coming delights, like tropical beaches, send out their native enchantment over the vast spaces that precede them - a perfumed breeze that lulls and drugs you out of all anxiety as to what may yet await you below the horizon.
~ Gustave Flaubert
The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it.
~ Isabella Bird
Lights are glowing in the palm trees.
~ Jimmy Buffett
A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.
~ Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Mon climat intérieur est tropical aujourd'hui : il y a de la pluie, du soleil, des odeurs fortes, et un sentiment de pourriture végétale flotte dans l'air débilitant.
~ Simone Schwarz-Bart
I'm like a mosquito, I love humidity. I don't sweat.
~ Shakira
The crumbs blow free down the pointless sea To the beat of a cakey heart And the sensitive steel of the knife can feel That love is a race apart In the speed of the lingering light are blown The crumbs to the hake above, And the tropical air vibrates to the drone Of a cake in the throes of love.
~ Mervyn Peake
A group of parrots is called a pandemonium.
~ Susan Mallery
The tantalizing scent transported me to a white, sandy beach lapped by a turquoise sea under a tropical sun. Lime and coconut were the getaway flavors my bakery customers needed in April, tax time.
~ Judith Fertig
Watch out for flying coconuts.
~ Judy Blundell
Although I don't ever think I'll get enough mangoes in my life, eating one in the hot rain is one of the more perfect divine interventions. Mangoes will make you forget anything but mangoes.
~ Eve Babitz
Does a typical Florida area 'waterspout' feature a faucet or a shut-off valve?
~ F.M . Faber Jr.
In any case, these changes in body fat are too small to have any significant effect on thermal balance and there is no evidence that populations living in cold environments are fatter than those in tropical ones.
~ Frances Ashcroft
The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done.
~ Bill Gates
Florida? I'd never been there and all my life I've liked orange juice.
~ Michael Connelly
I love whenever they downgrade a hurricane to a tropical depression, because I always think of a tropical depression as how I feel three songs into a Jimmy Buffett concert.
~ Andy Kindler
Suddenly we were in Hawaii—tropical mountains running down to sparkling seas, sweeping bays, flawless beaches guarded by listing palms, little green and rocky islands standing off the headlands. From time to time we drove through sunny canefields, overlooked by the steep, blue eminence of the Great Dividing Range.
~ Bill Bryson
Then, about seven million years ago, something major happened. A group of new beings emerged from the tropical forests of Africa and began to move about on the open savanna. These
~ Bill Bryson
The tropical, stale heat the sidewalks had been sucking up all day hit me in the face like a last insult.
~ Sylvia Plath