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Quotes About Toad

Give me your arm, old toad; Help me down Cemetery Road.
~ Philip Larkin
Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars.
~ Ray Bradbury
Out of all the toads I kissed you are my first prince
~ James D Wilson
At least today you've got your shade." "It's raining." He said it like it was my fault, like I'd done something to make it rain. Oh, to have such power. I'd turn him into a toad. "Exactly, so there's no sun, which is what you were complaining about the other day." "I like the sun." "I thought you wanted shade." "You have to have sun to have shade." Okay. This was going nowhere.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
[Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
O curse of marriage!That we can call these delicate creatures ours,And not their appetites. I had rather be a toad,And live upon the vapor of a dungeon,Than keep a corner in the thing I loveFor others' uses.
~ William Shakespeare
Toad's ancestral home, won back by matchless valour, consummate strategy, and a proper handling of sticks.
~ Kenneth Grahame
The motor-car went Poop-poop-poop, As it raced along the road. Who was it steered it into a pond? Ingenious Mr. Toad!
~ Kenneth Grahame
SONG. . . . BY TOAD. (Composed by himself.) OTHER COMPOSITIONS. BY TOAD will be sung in the course of the evening by the. . . COMPOSER.
~ Kenneth Grahame
And let each one of the crowd try and shout it very loud, In honour of an animal of whom you're justly proud, For it's Toad's—great—day!
~ Kenneth Grahame
This is the end of everything' (he said), 'at least it is the end of the career of Toad, which is the same thing; the popular
~ Kenneth Grahame
Washerwoman, indeed!' he shouted recklessly. 'Ho! ho! I am the Toad, the motor-car snatcher, the prison-breaker, the Toad who always escapes! Sit still, and you shall know what driving really is, for you are in the hands of the famous, the skillful, the entirely fearless Toad!
~ Kenneth Grahame
WHOSE hour, you should rather say,' replied the Badger. 'Why, Toad's hour! The hour of Toad! I said I would take him in hand as soon as the winter was well over, and I'm going to take him in hand to-day!
~ Kenneth Grahame
Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The gesture would have been far more gallant if his cuff hadn't been dripping with toad piss.
~ Jim C. Hines
Killer on the road / His brain is squirming like a toad.
~ Jim Morrison
At this period, after his long fast, the toad has a very spiritual look, like a strict Anglo-Catholic towards the end of Lent. George Orwell, cited by John Carey
~ John Carey
They left too many questions unanswered, too many ramifications unexplored. My parents told me that I was expecting too much from Frog and Toad Are Friends: it wasn't a novel. In that way, I understood that a novel would explain all the things I still wanted to know
~ Elif Batuman
Avenging a toad. Pointing at a tree. Who could handle that kind of thing, in a mother?
~ Margaret Atwood
And people say it all the time: 'You're a celebrity.' No, I'm an actor. I'm a producer. I'm a director. I'm a toad. I'm roadkill. I'm anything but a celebrity.
~ Drew Barrymore
If you were a RiverClan cat, you wouldn't mind getting your paws wet!" "And I wouldn't mind catching a frog or a toad to eat," mewed Littlecloud. When the other cats glanced at him in surprise, he added defensively, "They don't taste that bad!
~ Erin Hunter
Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
~ Ambrose Bierce
What you have never noticed about the toad, probably ... his front feet, which are sometimes padded, hold three nimble digits - had anyone a piano small enough I think the toad could learn to play something, a little Mozart maybe
~ Mary Oliver
And in the distance a toad farted ominously.
~ Beth Goobie