Penguins Quotes

“Antarctica. You know, that giant continent at the bottom of the earth that’s ruled by penguins and seals.”
― C.B. Cook, Twinepathy

“I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large chest freezer.”
― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

“For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.”
― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

“... Once a penguin finds its perfect other penguin, they stay together pretty much forever.”
― Anna Staniszewski, The Prank List

“I saw the whole thing! A dog and a penguin helped him escape!”
― Edgar Cantero, Meddling Kids

“Penguins, it turns out, are pretty fucking delightful.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“The tears were back, stinging just behind my eyes. There was blood all over my penguins. I didn't give a damn about the walls and carpet. They could be replaced, but I'd collected those damned stuffed toys over years.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, The Laughing Corpse

“The penguins that spent most of their time fighting were the ones with no chicks...It's like they're supposed to be taking care of their chicks. But because they don't have any, they have nothing to do with all their energy. So they just pick fights.”
― Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette

“Anyway, a bunch of penguins were living in a ceramic bowl of cold spaghetti noodles. There was no tomato sauce because it didn’t exist yet, but that was okay. As the spaghetti was cold, moisture condensed upon it. This kept the spaghetti from sticking, or from sticking to the penguins, or the bowl. It also kept the penguins from sticking to the bowl, and from sticking to each other.
As I mentioned, tomato sauce did not exist yet. You should realize since this was a beginning, the moisture didn’t either. Neither did the bowl. I think you can guess about the penguins. How could there be penguins if nothing existed yet?”
― David S. Atkinson, Apocalypse All the Time

“Because penguins are so beloved, they are uniquely capable of teaching us about love for the natural world.”
― Charles Bergman, Every Penguin in the World: A Quest to See Them All

“Penguins are living lessons in caring for the earth and its creatures, in all their beauty and vulnerability.”
― Charles Bergman, Every Penguin in the World: A Quest to See Them All

“I have taken the liberty of quoting at length throughout from the gospels of the Emperor penguins. To them I owe a special debt of gratitude for their remarkable patience.”
― Donald Finkel, Adequate Earth

“I know what nuns are, kind of. It's just I never saw one. I didn't know they looked like penguins.”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“It's been well-thumbed, at least triple-read, there's that smell the fat orange-spine Penguins get when their pages have yellowed and the book bulges, basically the smell of complex humanity, sort of sweat and salt and endeavour. Like all the fat orange Penguins, it gets fatter with reading, which it should, because in a way the more you read it the bigger your own experience of the world gets, the fatter your soul.”
― Niall Williams, History of the Rain

“So when I finally escaped, I don’t know. I kind of felt like I had done the impossible. Dared to dream. Become a penguin that could fly. Wings are just a state of mind, right?”
― Lindsey Lanza, A Little Magic

“Adventure is how we express the urge to be wild. It’s a call to borderlands and edges.”
― Charles Bergman, Every Penguin in the World: A Quest to See Them All

“We love them more than any other bird. And yet, they are among the most endangered family of birds in the world.”
― Charles Bergman, Every Penguin in the World: A Quest to See Them All

“Photography is especially good at enabling us to see the world from an animal’s point of view. It’s one of the reasons I love photography.”
― Charles Bergman, Every Penguin in the World: A Quest to See Them All

“Penguins are one of the best antidotes for despair that I know. They are living lessons in caring for the planet and its creatures, in all their beauty and vulnerability.”
― Charles Bergman, Every Penguin in the World: A Quest to See Them All

“These penguins call us to a deeper resolve and commitment to do what we can on their behalf. If we cannot save penguins—cannot save what everybody loves—what can we save?”
― Charles Bergman, Every Penguin in the World: A Quest to See Them All

“It is hard to be miserable in the company of penguins. It’s hard not to feel happy in their presence. Susan calls this feeling “the penguin glow.”
― Charles Bergman, Every Penguin in the World: A Quest to See Them All

“Now I know how to make it as a pedophile. Forget lollypops. Antarctic wildlife is the ticket.”
― Jacob M. Appel, Scouting for the Reaper

“It was beginning to look as if he hadn't just found a sign of water on a destitute planet, he'd found a sign that the same planet had penguins. Those would be two fundamentally different breakthroughs.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“Imagine penguins and sea leopards outlasting the whole works. Well, probably they deserve to. Especially penguins. I don't think they ever hurt anybody.”
― William Brinkley, The Last Ship

“The wolves were now permanently mute out of almost three week long perpetual fear of the penguin, and this was agreeable to the penguin, who was much pleased, contrary to the redundancy of the latter part of this sentence where he certainly was not pleased.”
― J.S. Mason, The Ghost Therapist...And Other Grand Delights

“Go farther and get closer. Listen. Animals are talking to
us. They are calling us. We have only to learn to listen.”
― Charles Bergman, Every Penguin in the World: A Quest to See Them All

“It’s not just me who needs a lesson in belonging. Our culture as a whole has this to learn, still: how to connect with the earth we live on and call home, and how to take our place with and among the creatures for whom this is also home.”
― Charles Bergman, Every Penguin in the World: A Quest to See Them All

“I had a dream and I got up to write it--normally you don't do that, normally it's the penguin orgy and you don't write that.”
― George Saunders

“Even the two moose were surprised. It was almost as cold as Iceland, but not quite. They decided to occupy the last hour on deck knitting hats and scarves for Snugs, Carla, and James. Clickety-click went their knitting needle antlers...”
― Suzy Davies, Snugs The Snow Bear

“Twice already I have mentioned that strayed chicks fall a prey to "hooligan" cocks. These hang about the rookery often in little bands. At the beginning of the season there are very few of them, but later they increase greatly, do much damage, and cause a great deal of annoyance to the peaceful inhabitants. The few to be found at first probably are cocks who have not succeeded in finding mates, and consequently are "at a loose end." Later on, as their numbers are so greatly increased, they must be widowers, whose mates have lost their lives in one way or another.
Many of the colonies, especially those nearer the water, are plagued by little knots of
"hooligans," who hang about their outskirts, and should a chick go astray it stands a good chance of losing its life at their hands. The crimes which they commit are such as to find no place in this book, but it is interesting indeed to note that, when nature intends them to find employment, these birds, like men degenerate in idleness.”
― George Levick