Hippopotamus Quotes
Collection of top 27 famous quotes about Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus Quotes & Sayings
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[his healing skills] ..lay in the ability to comfort, to comfort in the proper sense, to make strong, to fortify
— Stephen Fry
The universal logo for a pizzahut is eight slices painted cross a disc of yellow plywood mounted in the mouth of a taxidermic hippopotapus.
— Noah Wareness
Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?
— Marina Tsvetaeva
I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
They would probably search for him all over the zoo - the last place he'd been seen. He wondered if any evidence would implicate the hippo.
— Brandon Mull
Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!
— Phyllis Bottome
Be good and you will be lonesome.
— Mark Twain
Home is the place where true politeness tells.
— Julia McNair Wright
Concentration is at the root of mental mastery.
— Robin Sharma
Any of the nearby volumes might hold information about hippopotamus portals or contain hints about how he might get home.
— Brandon Mull
The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.
— T. S. Eliot
Sir Humphrey looked like a sleepy old hippo
and when he yawned in that big, big, hippopotamus way Charity couldn't help doing likewise. — Elizabeth Jane Howard
and when he yawned in that big, big, hippopotamus way Charity couldn't help doing likewise. — Elizabeth Jane Howard
A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.
— Alain De Botton
She was sitting up. She lifted and pulled at her blankets, but it was gone. The hippopotamus of wisdom was nowhere in sight.
— Christopher Bram
Has a confrontational ring to it, doesn't it? Like saying, the sky is rubber, or, your foot's a hippopotamus.
— Terry Moore
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud
— Carl Sandburg
Tender-handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you, for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains.
Aaron Hill — Michael Tappenden
And it stings you, for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains.
Aaron Hill — Michael Tappenden
The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
— Erma Bombeck
I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.
— Scarlett Johansson