Crocodiles Quotes
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It has been related that dogs drink at the river Nile running along, that they may not be seized by the crocodiles.
phaedrus— Book I, fable 25, line 3.
Pedal faster! Come on, there are crocodiles in this water and I hear they'll eat anything - even plastic!
chris pontius— [Prostitute Boatrace- Jackass Episdoes]
Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one’s mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.
Anton Chekhov— Letter to his brother, A.P. Chekhov (January 2, 1889)
The supreme need of the world today is for a true conception and a deeper knowledge of God. The Hindu mother tosses her baby to the crocodiles, the devout pilgrim mutilates his body, the pious monk retires to the wilderness, the martial Moslem massacres the unbelieving, the consecrated missionary lays down his life for his enemy all of these deeds are founded on varying conceptions of God.
— p.15 (Something More, A Consideration of the Vast, Undeveloped Resources of Life (1920))
