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Quotes About Penguins

In 'Deadliest Catch,' we have men in ships in rough seas catching crabs. With 'Whale Wars,' we have men and women from a dozen different nations going out to sea in rough weather to help save the whales. We also have icebergs, whales, penguins, and dramatic ship-to-ship confrontations.
~ Paul Watson
If you think your own life hard, and would like to leave it for a short hour I recommend you to beg, borrow or steal this tale, and read and see how the penguins live. It is all quite true.
~ Apsley Cherry-Garrard
In the evening every man looks the same. Like penguins. Women have a special dress for that event; men, the same tuxedo.
~ Roberto Cavalli
discovering Antarctica, its penguin kings and icy spires...
~ Marianne Moore
Instantly, there had been cries of protest from the industrial archaeologists, outraged at such vandalism, and from the naturalists, who pointed out that the penguins simply loved the abandoned pipeline.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
With his back turned on the life-giving sea, he eventually sets off waddling toward the mountains of the interior. There's more disturbing footage from polar regions, but it's the implications that needle at me. The penguin's journey is certain death. Were they to catch him and bring him back, the biologist explains, he would only head for the mountains again. It sounds like the voice of experience, as if they've tried and failed. The penguins refuse to be saved.
~ Ellen Datlow
I got given a pair of Christmas socks with penguins on. They know you're obviously not going to wear them. I think they do it just to annoy you, to be honest.
~ Jamie Vardy
As well, the Penguins arranged for Sidney to open a bank account in Pittsburgh. He had been keeping his nhl paycheques in his sock drawer.
~ Shawna Richer
in the foothills of the Pocono Mountains, home of the Baby Penguins, their American Hockey League farm team.
~ Shawna Richer
The thing I noticed immediately about Crosby the first time I saw him in the Penguins' dressing room that September was his thighs. They were the circumference of good-sized tree trunks.
~ Shawna Richer
When the Penguins arrived on Sunday from Boston, he wandered around Times Square with some of his teammates. He couldn't get over the lights and noise that never ceased. "It's a lot bigger than Cole Harbour," he said.
~ Shawna Richer
Penguins can shut down digestion by lowering the temperature inside their stomach to the point where the gastric juices are no longer active. The stomach becomes a kind of cooler to carry home the fish they've caught for their young. Penguins' hunting grounds may be several days' journey from the nest. Without this handy refrigerated mode, the swallowed fish would be completely digested by the time the adults get back—"like
~ Mary Roach
I have often had the impression that, to penguins, man is just another penguin — different, less predictable, occasionally violent, but tolerable company when he sits still and minds his own business.
~ Bernard Stonehouse
I have often had the impression that, to penguins, man is just another penguin -different, less predictable, occasionally violent, but tolerable company when he sits still and minds his own business.
~ Bernard Stonehouse
All the birds had flown away, save only the great, grotesque penguins.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
On the barren shore, and on the lofty ice barrier in the background, myriads of grotesque penguins squawked and flapped their fins; while many fat seals were visible on the water, swimming or sprawling across large cakes of slowly drifting ice.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
This arena is a special place. Everybody loves it. To be able to stand behind the bench and be a part of a great tournament for the '96 Elite is fun. The kids, having a chance to play in the building where the Penguins play, it's a special feeling for them.
~ Mario Lemieux
Meet me inside the Edge of the Icepack penguin enclosure in at four fifteen she says, sounding just like Kim Possible. If Kim Possible ever asked people to meet her inside a penguin enclosures.
~ Meg Cabot
Because part of the ride takes place within the penguins' habitat, usually maintained around 30°F, the park is boasting that it is the coldest temperature for any theme park ride anywhere.
~ Bob Sehlinger
There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.
~ Terry Pratchett
Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder.
~ Bruce Chatwin
For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.
~ Diane Ackerman
You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.
~ Rich Lowry
Jordan followed, buttoning his jeans and muttering about how there was nothing strange about having a pattern of dancing penguins on your underwear.
~ Cassandra Clare