Frogs – Quotes

In the snow outside

In the snow outside my window I see a small green frog, one eye blinking and the other wide open, unmoving, looking at me. I know this is God. Gao Xingjian

I don’t like to

I don’t like to try strange foods. I like to explore different foods, but if you ask me to eat crocodile or frogs… I’m like no. That’s where I draw the line. Gabby Douglas

One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass. G. Tyler Miller

Not a frog, I

Not a frog, I hope?” he asked…She shook her head. “No. And if it was I wouldn’t kiss it, I promise you. I might kiss a prince if I could be sure he’d turn into a frog, but not the other way around. Eva Ibbotson

The wise duck keeps

The wise duck keeps his mouth shut when he smells frogs. Ernest Bramah

We are born princes

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. Eric Berne

I\\’m Nobody! Who are

I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s a pair of us? Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one’s name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog! Emily Dickinson

There\\’s a part of

There’s a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one.That is spirituality. Ellen Bass

There are a lot

There are a lot of things that we could do to minimize what we’re doing, but we’re not getting back those frogs that I saw that no longer exist. Elizabeth Kolbert

The sound universe is

The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there’s a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of night the dogs howl about how misunderstood they are. Before dawn the roosters for miles around announce how freaking cool it is to be roosters. Elizabeth Gilbert