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Quotes About Tarzan

One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.
~ Ralph Bakshi
Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE! Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you're over here like this? Calvin:...I don't think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.
~ Bill Watterson
THIS IS THE HOUSE OF TARZAN, THE KILLER OF BEASTS AND MANY BLACK MEN. DO NOT HARM THE THINGS WHICH ARE TARZAN'S. TARZAN WATCHES. TARZAN OF THE APES.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
P44- in tarzans clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of reason.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
From a lofty perch Tarzan viewed the village of thatched huts across the intervening plantation.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
Your Paris is more dangerous than my savage jungles, Paul, concluded Tarzan
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
P38- little tarzan, which was the name they had given to the tiny lord greystoke and which meant white skin
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
John! cried Lady Greystoke, running toward him, how could I have been mistaken? I- but the rest of the sentence was lost as Tarzan of the Apes sprang into the room and taking his mate in his arms covered her lips with kisses.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
As he passed through the winding corridors and the subterranean apartments, Tarzan saw nothing of the hyenas. They will return, he said to himself. In the crater between the towering walls Bukawai, cold with terror, trembled, trembled as with ague. They will return! he cried, his voice rising to a fright-filled shriek. And they did.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
Come, then, cried Tarzan, and prove your loyalty. It were better to die now than to live in slavery forever.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
And the man rose and put a foot upon it and, raising his face to the heavens, voiced a horrid cry —the victory cry of the bull ape. Corrie was suddenly terrified of this man who had always seemed so civilized and cultured. Even the men were shocked. Suddenly recognition lighted the eyes of Jerry Lucas. John Clayton, he said, Lord Greystoke— Tarzan of the Apes! Shrimp's jaw dropped. Is dat Johnny Weissmuller? he demanded.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
A perfect type of the strongly masculine, unmarred by dissipation, or brutal or degrading passions. For, though Tarzan of the Apes was a killer of men and of beasts, he killed as the hunter kills, dispassionately, except on those rare occasions when he had killed for hate—though not the brooding, malevolent hate which marks the features of its own with hideous lines.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan looked across at his companion in misery. While there is life, he said, there is hope, but he grinned as he voiced the ancient truism. Lieutenant Harold Percy Smith-Oldwick returned the other's smile. I fancy, he said, that we are getting short on both.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had a mustache. Tarzan had a mustache.
~ Jean Dujardin
You look like … like a boxer, or like somebody in a Tarzan movie." "Cheetah," I said.
~ Robert B. Parker
I didn't read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Tarzan' and that kind of stuff.
~ Jesse L. Martin
I was actually looking at the poster for 'Tarzan,' and I was thinking how abs look so different now. These are not your grandma's abs. They go so deep and so sharp now.
~ Kumail Nanjiani
The first home system we had was an Apple II, and I remember playing a game called 'Conan.' It should have been called 'Tarzan' because you were essentially Conan running around a forest with a boomerang, but it was obviously Tarzan.
~ Thomas Middleditch
Oddly enough, Black Panther's almost like an analog to Tarzan.
~ Brian Stelfreeze
I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit.
~ Esther Williams
When I left Haiti, I was eight. I went to the Congo where my father was working. The only images that I had were the images of Tarzan. That's what I thought Africa was. Of course, the first day I arrived there, I thought I would see a lot of savages dancing on the tarmac.
~ Raoul Peck
The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.
~ Phil Collins
I do sometimes joke that I'm Tarzan and Ben's Jane when it comes to dealing with spiders or if there's dead things in the garden.
~ Sara Cox
The leopards call me their Nimir-Ra, leopard queen. Me and Tarzan, huh? I
~ Laurell K. Hamilton