Quotes about Tigers

China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main market for rhino horn. Tigers are being killed for tiger bone wine. They're driving the tropical timber trade and illegal logging in Indonesia, and the trade in tropical reef fish. Votes: 8

All reactionaries are paper tigers. Votes: 6

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. Votes: 6

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves. Votes: 6

In waking a tiger, use a long stick. Votes: 4

Now I know why tigers eat their young. Votes: 4

They're great kids, great young people, and they fight like hell. Votes: 4

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep. Votes: 4

Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. Votes: 4

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio. Votes: 4

Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside Votes: 4

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. Votes: 4

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian. Votes: 4

Two reasons I come down here every year: the food and there are multiple guys here every year. Votes: 4

I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing. Votes: 4

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. Votes: 4

I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs. Votes: 4

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep. Votes: 4

The team is never about the single player. It's not about the injury that keeps a star out of a certain game, and it's not about the coach. It's about the strength, and the abilities of the sum. Votes: 4

I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers. Votes: 4

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror. Votes: 4

I'll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life. I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn't know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time. Votes: 4

I absolutely love doing games in Baton Rouge. Night games in Tiger Stadium are a spectacle and the food choices all around are fantastic! One thing is certain: if I ever choose to feature a tailgating spread for Taste of the Town, LSU will be at the top of the list. Votes: 4

We ask these players to do some very difficult things, for the team, the coaching staff, the school - at risk of injury. And when they do those things, I feel as if I'm in their debt. It's an honor to coach those guys. I want to be of service to them. Votes: 4

I can tell you there is no finer stadium to play in. The traditions that they place in that stadium like when they announce that it's Saturday night in Death Valley, when the band plays, when that crowd stands and cheers for the Tigers, there is no place like it in America. Votes: 4

I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I am a tiger". When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there. Votes: 4

You know, tigers are very unpredictable. Votes: 3

Tigers love pepper...they hate cinnamon. Votes: 3

What my previous film 'Paper Tigers' have proven, is that it can point toward helpful tools for change. Votes: 3

For a time, the Flying Tigers provided the only victories against the Japanese anywhere in the Far East... This handful of men had shown that the Japanese were not invincible. Votes: 3

Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans. Votes: 3

There's so much emphasis on the economic might of China, of Southeast Asia, Asian 'Super Tigers' and things like that. But nobody was really looking from the perspective of a family story, of these individuals. Votes: 3

India deliberately aggravated Sri Lanka's ethnic crisis. It destabilized Sri Lanka [by training and arming Tamil militants, including the Tigers] so that it could play a dominant role in bringing Sri Lanka within its sphere of influence. Votes: 3

If somebody had told me that you have a choice of being a rock star or playing left field for the Tigers, there would not have been a choice at all. I would have said, 'Where's my locker?' Votes: 3

Through what I have witnessed and documented, with proper interventions you can break those cycles. When I made the first film on this subject, 'Paper Tigers,' kids were going off the cliff. But then there was intervention, and they won't go off the cliff. Votes: 3

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious. Votes: 2

When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers. Votes: 2

I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player. Votes: 2

Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as interesting. Votes: 2

We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people. Votes: 2

In most states, it's more difficult to get a license for your dog than it is to buy a big cat. Right now, there are more tigers in the state of Texas than in all of India. Votes: 2

I was studying my 'Bold and Beautiful' script the other day, lying in a hammock, when one of my Siberian tigers walked up and grabbed it out of my hand - she wanted to play. See - teeth marks! Votes: 2

Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning. Votes: 2

My dream pet? I like a couple of them, man: monkey, I love dogs. See, tigers, I don't know - I can't be playing with something like that. A monkey, I can handle it. A dog, yeah; I would get a monkey. Votes: 2

The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone. Votes: 2

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. Votes: 2

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it. Votes: 2

When Seoul hosted the Games in 1988, it became a symbol of the Asian Tigers' ascent onto the world stage. In 1992, the Barcelona Olympics represented the unification of Europe. And when Rio plays host in 2016, it will reinforce the growing importance of Brazil and Latin America as a whole. Votes: 2

Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road, which also winds through foothills and the fringes of heavy jungle where tigers are said to roam. The vegetation, wild or cultivated, is lush. Votes: 2

It is not that I don't have a fear of sharks, it is that I have a respect for them, so that I know any more than if I were to go into the jungle, I would have a fear of tigers, that I would try to lower the odds. Votes: 2

The Football Association have always acted more as a referee than a governor. And the FA, aware the Premier League provide players for the England team, have always had too gentle a hand on the tiller. The result is that the Premier League are the tigers in the English football jungle everybody's scared of. Votes: 2

Cats are the tigers of us poor devils. Votes: 0

My neighbors are crocodiles and tigers and giraffes. Votes: 0

the tigers have found me and I do not care. Votes: 0

Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers. Votes: 0

They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers. Votes: 0

Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! - Dorothy in Wizard of Oz Votes: 0

What did they feed the lions and tigers with in the ark, sir? Votes: 0

Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth. Votes: 0

When two tigers fight, one is certain to be maimed, and one to die. Votes: 0

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them. Votes: 0

For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown. Votes: 0

Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers. Votes: 0

Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers. Votes: 0

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry Votes: 0

My first crush was this kid in kindergarten who told me he had tigers in his attic as well. Votes: 0

In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers. Votes: 0

Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal. Votes: 0

I've always been obsessed with tigers, I love white tigers I think they're very glamourous in a weird way. Votes: 0

I haven't bought anything excessive. I do plan on buying an island and filling it with baby tigers, though. Votes: 0

All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings? Votes: 0

Green darners never attack people, but they have been seen bringing down hummingbirds. They are the Bengal tigers of the microworld. Votes: 0

Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater. Votes: 0

How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said. Votes: 0

I don't want to be a tiger, tigers play too rough. I don't want to be a lion, cause lions ain't the kind you love up. Votes: 0

The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers. Votes: 0

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam. Votes: 0

I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they're crouching and hidden. Votes: 0

I went to a commune with my parents when I was a kid and everyone else got given cool spirit animals like tigers and panthers. I got a mouse. Votes: 0

The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits. Votes: 0

So many people have bad intentions, so many girls want to hang out [with me] to be someone. I weed those people out of my life. I call them hungry tigers. Votes: 0

My good friend Paul Shaffer and I are going to continue in show business. Next month Paul and I will debut our new act at Caesar's Palace with our white tigers. Votes: 0

I live within the vivid colors of my imagination, soaring with rainbow-feathered birds, racing the desert winds on horseback, wrapped in ancient tribal jewels, dancing with mythical tigers in steamy jungles. Votes: 0

Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others. Votes: 0

Well, I quite like animals, but theyre unpredictable. I mean, look at old whats-his-name in Vegas. Tiger dragged him off the stage, you know? The guy brought up tigers. Theyre quite unpredictable. Votes: 0

Workable solutions for Earth are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers, or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. Votes: 0

When I was little, I would always lie about the stupidest things. In kindergarten or first grade, I would tell people I had tigers living in my attic and a room full of gold. Votes: 0

They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot-and their tyrants have been their historians! Votes: 0