Famous Quotes & Sayings

There are definitely a lot of gators here, ... The more freshwater a marsh has, then the more alligators you will find there because food will be more abundant.

This alligator has done so much for us. While we were busy trying to capture Harry, he was capturing our hearts.

Don't let your alligator mouth out talk your tadpole butt.

Reed Krakoff

And with our heritage, I am not interested in doing alligator bags,

Richard Garnett

Even if the president wasn't up to it in alligators and his approval rating was 90 percent, John Roberts simply is the best guy for the chief justice's job. I think the thought of having John Roberts join him on the court kept the chief going despite his cancer. I think he's probably smiling about it now.

No call alligator long mouth till you pass him

My dad would trade monkeys for an alligator -- zoo-to-zoo deals; you'd find someone who needed what you had,

Chuck D.

maybe humans are just the pet alligators that Gd flushed down the toilet

Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river.

Occasionally, you'll find them in your flower bed, on your doorstep or in your garage. When they get cornered, the alligator is probably pretty scared.

I say apparently because the tail and hind limbs of the dead alligator were protruding from a hole in the mid-body of the dead python.

We were moving toward making it more of a recreational opportunity than a commercial one. Now there really aren't any shortages of alligators -- we're well past the endangered species time, so we're ready to expand.

Dwayne Johnson

I carried her out on my back in the flood. There were people screaming, crying. I saw alligators eating dead bodies. When we tried to get on a bus, they put all the tourists on first and pushed the locals out of the way like we were dirt.

Just seeing an alligator does not make it dangerous. They have to come out of the water, as a cold-blooded reptile, to regulate their temperature by basking in the sun.

Ben Shapiro

During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During the 1930s, when the entire American economy fell into a government-owned alligator moat, crime was nearly non-existent. During the 1950s and 1960s, when the economy was excellent, crime rose again.

Ryan Holmes

Every day I'd come home after school, pop the hood of my mom's car, put alligator clips on the battery, and wire into the house and go play on my computer. If I used it for too long, I'd wear down the car battery, and my mom would be all mad at me the next day.

Ronald Reagan

...I know it's hard when you're up to your armpits in alligators to remember you came here to drain the swamp. (February 10, 1982)

Gene Kranz

In 1960, ... the Cape looked like an oil field, with towering structures, dirt, and asphalt roads newly carved out of the palmetto scrub. The alligators were reluctantly surrendering to the onslaught of newly arrived civilization. If you didn't have a good sense of direction, you were in trouble.

The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.

The best line of defense for humans and alligators is to just let the alligator have distance,

That's the guy that talked all that crap about us in the Alligator before. That's him right here.

All of a sudden people were talking about the alligator. Neighbors were coming out and starting to get to know each other. People were growing affectionate and fond of this alligator who's been abandoned.

This has been on everybody's mind. From where did they leave their car parked because it's probably going to be underwater because of the flood to alligators in your house.

ALLIGATOR, n. The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World. Herodotus says the Indus is, with one exception, the only river that produces crocodiles, but they appear to have gone West and grown up with the other rivers. From the notches on his back the alligator is called a sawrian.

Dick Van Patten

If I was good each week, my father would take me to a different pet store each Saturday. I had a snake, horny toads, turtles, lizards, rabbits, guinea pigs... I kept my alligator in the bathtub until it got too big.

We saw dead alligators. We saw four of them, belly up. If the alligators can't survive in their own waters, you know it was bad.