Terrance Coffey > Quotes

“There was a little bird that wandered into a marsh where a lone crocodile lived. The crocodile was friendly, and soon the bird would perch on the crocodile’s snout and take rides across the river. Every day this would happen. The bird perched on the crocodile’s snout and the crocodile swam around the river. One day, the little bird told his father about the friendly creature. The father bird was skeptical, so he flew to the marsh to see if what his son was telling him was true. The little bird told his father to watch. It then perched on the crocodile’s snout and in the blink of an eye, the crocodile devoured it. The distraught father asked the crocodile why he ate his son when many times before he had been friendly with him. The crocodile replied, ‘You should have taught your son, there’s always a risk of being eaten when riding on the snout of a crocodile.”
― Terrance Coffey, Valley of the Kings: The 18th Dynasty