I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
I know at least two people who have never been killed by hippos.
If a hippo ever wants to fight, just walk away.
And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!
The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.
I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly.
Somewhere behind me, Zia yelled, "Hippo!" Which I thought was a little late. ~Carter Kane
But this plan of yous!' Tawaret shuddered, causing a tsunami of jiggling hippo flesh.
We traveled for two weeks with a pickled hippo.
Believe that you may understand,
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.