#crocodile

What's he doing?" Bethany asked. "He's bowing.'Good day milday." Bethany giggled. "Crocodiles don't bow." "They should when they meet a princess. ↗

— Kerrelyn Sparks

#crocodiles #princess #love

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#bus #children #come #crocodiles #elephants

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#crocodile #curiosity #greed #kite #greed

The Allegator is the same, as the Crocodile, and differs only in Name. ↗

— John Lawson

#differs #name #only #same

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#crocodile #eat #feeding #go #hoping

My field is with apex predators, hence your crocodiles, your snakes, your spiders. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#crocodiles #field #hence #predators #snakes

She had sought me out. I knew it would happen. Even if I had switched to a different section, she would have sought me out all the same. She, who hid in the crowd, who didn’t want anyone to see her behind her veil of averted eyes and aloofness. When I stepped forward, she came out, too. And she pointed and said, revealing a child’s wanton smile: “That’s the one I want.” And like a potted sunflower that had just been sold to a customer, I was taken away. There was no way to refuse. This, from a beautiful girl that I was already deeply, viscerally attracted to. Things were getting good. ↗

— Miaojin Qiu

#notes-of-a-crocodile #beauty

But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended. ↗

— Elizabeth Peters

#equality

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#eat #feeds #him #hoping #last

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#cent #conservation #crocodile #earn #every