Alligator Quotations

If I was good each week, my father would take me to a different pet store each Saturday. I had a snake, horny toads, turtles, lizards, rabbits, guinea pigs... I kept my alligator in the bathtub until it got too big.

Every day I'd come home after school, pop the hood of my mom's car, put alligator clips on the battery, and wire into the house and go play on my computer. If I used it for too long, I'd wear down the car battery, and my mom would be all mad at me the next day.

During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During the 1930s, when the entire American economy fell into a government-owned alligator moat, crime was nearly non-existent. During the 1950s and 1960s, when the economy was excellent, crime rose again.

Occasionally, you'll find them in your flower bed, on your doorstep or in your garage. When they get cornered, the alligator is probably pretty scared.

My dad would trade monkeys for an alligator -- zoo-to-zoo deals; you'd find someone who needed what you had,

Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river.

No call alligator long mouth till you pass him

Just seeing an alligator does not make it dangerous. They have to come out of the water, as a cold-blooded reptile, to regulate their temperature by basking in the sun.

I say apparently because the tail and hind limbs of the dead alligator were protruding from a hole in the mid-body of the dead python.

Don't let your alligator mouth out talk your tadpole butt.

And with our heritage, I am not interested in doing alligator bags,

This alligator has done so much for us. While we were busy trying to capture Harry, he was capturing our hearts.

That's the guy that talked all that crap about us in the Alligator before. That's him right here.

They'd catch them alive and keep them alive until they were ready to eat them because they didn't have refrigeration, ... They always had meat handy with an alligator in the back yard.

They were out there swapping alligator stories, giving all kinds of advice to each other,

ALLIGATOR, n. The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World. Herodotus says the Indus is, with one exception, the only river that produces crocodiles, but they appear to have gone West and grown up with the other rivers. From the notches on his back the alligator is called a sawrian.

All of a sudden people were talking about the alligator. Neighbors were coming out and starting to get to know each other. People were growing affectionate and fond of this alligator who's been abandoned.