Hippopotamus Quotes

“We know that there are many animals on this continent not found in the Old World. These must have been carried from here to the ark, and then brought back afterwards. Were the peccary, armadillo, ant-eater, sloth, agouti, vampire-bat, marmoset, howling and prehensile-tailed monkey, the raccoon and muskrat carried by the angels from America to Asia? How did they get there? Did the polar bear leave his field of ice and journey toward the tropics? How did he know where the ark was? Did the kangaroo swim or jump from Australia to Asia? Did the giraffe, hippopotamus, antelope and orang-outang journey from Africa in search of the ark? Can absurdities go farther than this?”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

“Dressing, I chose the second shirt, the one softened in the mouth of a trained and perfumed albino hippopotamus and made entirely of pigeon's wool, because it goes better with the shoes than the one stitched with baby hair.”
― Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World

“They would probably search for him all over the zoo—the last place he’d been seen. He wondered if any evidence would implicate the hippo.”
― Brandon Mull, A World Without Heroes

“Any of the nearby volumes might hold information about hippopotamus portals or contain hints about how he might get home.”
― Brandon Mull, A World Without Heroes

“Frankly, I couldn't be more astonished that this guy was involved in something like this than if you came riding through my apartment on a hippopotamus.”
― Dan Rather

“Hippopotamus,
As the leaves fall to the ground
Mechs now leave Japan”
― Jo Walton

“The universal logo for a pizzahut is eight slices painted cross a disc of yellow plywood mounted in the mouth of a taxidermic hippopotapus.”
― Noah Wareness

“একটি কুমির এবং একটি জলহস্তী কখনও বন্ধু হতে পারে না!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“A crocodile and a hippopotamus can never be friends!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“You know, the original name for a merhorse was 'hippocampus,' but that fell out of favor because it's the same word as a part of the brain. Also, it sounds too much like hippopotamus, which isn't a similar animal at all." She had never seen a hippopotamus, though she'd read about them. "Did you know that hippopotamus secrete a red oil that keeps their skin dry and protects them from the sun?”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop