Hippo Quotes

You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

I know at least two people who have never been killed by hippos.

But this plan of yous!' Tawaret shuddered, causing a tsunami of jiggling hippo flesh.

If a hippo ever wants to fight, just walk away.

Somewhere behind me, Zia yelled, "Hippo!" Which I thought was a little late. ~Carter Kane

We traveled for two weeks with a pickled hippo.

I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly.

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

Believe that you may understand.

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

You might not think a hippo could inspire terror. Screaming “Hippo!” doesn’t have the same impact as screaming “Shark!” But I’m telling you—as the Egyptian Queen careened to one side, its paddle wheel lifting completely out of the water, and I saw that monster emerge from the deep, I nearly discovered the hieroglyphs for accident in my pants.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

I believe that every paper in the country should have one headline that when you read it, you laugh so hard you can't stand it. It has to be that way. What about a headline like this: 'Hippo Eats Dwarf'? How good is that? You read that headline, and you immediately close the paper and say, 'Wow, it's gonna be a great day.

I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.

I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

His lion and hippo legs twitched. I wondered if netherworld monsters dreamed of chasing rabbits.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen.

Curled up at the base of the scales, fast asleep, was the oddest monster I'd seen yet. It had the head of crocodile with a lion's mane. The front half of its body was a lion, but the back end was sleek, brown, and fat - a hippo, I decided. The odd bit was, the animal was tiny - I mean, no larger than an average poodle, which I suppose made him a hippodoodle.

A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string, a dash of pepper. That ought to do it. And now comes the problem... biting into it!

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

This was the kid who used to toddle over to my bed at 6 o’ clock in the morning every weekend morning to pull on my blankets so I’d get up and watch cartoons with him. This was the kid who once made me play Hungry Hungry Hippos for an hour straight, until I thought my hands were going to fall off from slamming down those dumb little levers to make the hippos’ heads move. This was the kid who had spent an entire days at a time begging me to play Chutes and Ladders with him. And now he was feeling too sick to play with me.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd rather be wrong with Dante and Shakespeare and Milton, with Augustine of Hippo and Francis of Assisi, with Dr. Johnson, Blake, and Dostoevsky than right with Voltaire, Rousseau, the Huxleys, Herbert Spencer, H. G. Wells, and Bernard Shaw.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine of Hippo used to say that, but for God's grace, he should have been capable of committing any crime; and it is when we feel this sincerely, that we are most likely to be really improving, and best able to give assistance to others without moral loss to ourselves.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.