Frog Quotes

• My parents used to call me 'The Little Frog,' because whenever they asked how I knew something, I'd say 'read it,' which sounds a bit like a frog croak.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Frog

• I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be killed, boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behaviour.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Up
  • May
  • Water

• I don't like 'em putting chemicals in the water that turn the freakin' frogs gay!

  

  Alex Jones
  • Water
  • Chemicals
  • Frog

• They do not need the sun. Who needs the sun when the eyes glow? Darkness. A woolen fog has wrapped the earth, has dropped a heavy curtain. From far away, from beyond the curtain, comes the sound of drops falling on stone. Far, far away - the autumn, people, tomorrow. ("The North")

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Earth
  • Sun
  • Darkness

• I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like a frog without any webs." She looked up and smiled. Wordlessly we walked over to a shaded part of the building and held each other and kissed, a shell-less snail and a webless frog.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Kissed
  • Smiled
  • Shell

• Some of these bulls are gonna' spin those cowboys so fast, they'll look like a frog in a blender.

  

  Wayne White
  • Cowboys
  • Frog
  • Blender

• 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
  • Public
  • June
  • Advertise

• Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.

  

  Barry Cryer
  • Comedy
  • Laughs
  • Frog

• She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Soul
  • Poetry
  • Frog

• This particular species, though, had never been seen before; indeed, it was so unusual that an entire genus had to be created to accommodate it. It was named Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis—batrachos is Greek for “frog”—or Bd for short.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Greek
  • Created
  • Species