Tadpoles Quotes

• El hombre es un artefacto diseñado para los viajes espaciales. No está diseñado para permanecer en su estado biológico actual, igual que un renacuajo no está diseñado para seguir siendo un renacuajo.

  William S. Burroughs

  Viajes, Matemáticas, Ciencia

  William S. Burroughs (1993). "La máquina de sumar: Selected Essays", p.85, Arcade Publishing

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• I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

  Toni Braxton

  Trying, Frogs

  Biografía/Citas personales, www.imdb.com.

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• I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.

  DeForest Kelley

  Hunting, Fishing, Youngsters

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• When you were a tadpole and I was a fish In the Paleozoic time.

  Langdon Smith

  Time, Fishes

  Langdon Smith (1922). “Poems of Evolution”

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• Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated changes, during which they often acquire organs which have no function, and which, after remaining visible for a short time, disappear without leaving a trace ... To the Darwinian, the explanation of such facts is obvious. The stage when the tadpole breathes by gills is a repetition of the stage when the ancestors of the frog had not advanced in the scale of development beyond a fish.

  Francis Maitland Balfour

  Science, Animal, Simple

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• The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Frogs, Poet, Bigger

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, Clyde Kenneth Hyder (1966). “Swinburne Replies: Notes on Poems and Reviews, Under the Microscope [and] Dedicatory Epistle”, p.72, Syracuse University Press

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• When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, in the Palæozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime.

  Langdon Smith

  Pals, Tides, Sides

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• Todos los niños deberían tener pasteles de barro, saltamontes, bichos de agua, renacuajos, ranas, tortugas de barro, bayas de saúco, fresas silvestres, bellotas, castañas, árboles a los que trepar. Arroyos que vadear, nenúfares, marmotas, murciélagos, abejas, mariposas, diversos animales que acariciar, campos de heno, piñas de pino, rocas que rodar, arena, serpientes, arándanos y avispones; y cualquier niño que se haya visto privado de todo esto se ha visto privado de la mejor parte de la educación.

  Luther Burbank

  Niños, Mariposa, Animal

  Luther Burbank (2000). "La formación de la planta humana", p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Niños, Años, Largos

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). "Galápagos: una novela", Dial Press

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• In a world full of monochromatic tadpoles, if you are fluorescent it does not matter what size of tadpole you are.

  Subroto Bagchi

  Doe, World, Matter

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• Brahms once remarked that the mark of an artist is how much he throws away. Nature, the great creator, is always throwing things away. A frog lays several million eggs at a sitting. Only a few dozen of these become tadpoles, and only a few of those become frogs. We can let imagination and practice be as profligate as nature.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Artist, Practice, Eggs

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.69, Penguin

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• Cuarta pregunta: ¿Qué libro regalaría a todos los niños? Respuesta: No les regalaría ningún libro. Los libros son parte del problema: esta extraña creencia de que un árbol no tiene nada que decir hasta que es asesinado, su carne pulverizada, y entonces la gente (humana) mancha esta carne con palabras. Yo llevaría a los niños al exterior y los pondría cara a cara con ardillas listadas, libélulas, renacuajos, colibríes, piedras, ríos, árboles, cangrejos de río. Dicho esto, si me van a obligar a regalarles un libro, sería El viento en los sauces, que espero les recuerde que deben salir a la calle.

  Derrick Jensen

  Niños, Libro, Viento

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• Si no encontramos nada muy agradable, al menos encontraremos algo nuevo.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspiración, Futuro, Aventura

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• There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one.That is spirituality.

  Ellen Bass

  Integrity, Butterfly, Growth

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• Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used to play with frog eggs and tadpoles and I used to walk in the field, I used to literally copy whatever my mother was doing on the land. And that may be the reason why I eventually developed the passion for green and for the Earth. So it is extremely important for adults and especially those who are in charge of cities to make sure that we do not lose touch with the land and with the environment. And especially our children.

  Wangari Maathai

  Madre, Hijos, Crecer

  Fuente: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Blow, Puff, Development

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, Clyde Kenneth Hyder (1966). “Swinburne Replies: Notes on Poems and Reviews, Under the Microscope [and] Dedicatory Epistle”, p.72, Syracuse University Press

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• You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

  Brian Tracy

  Ponds, Frogs, Enough

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat that Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• "This is Lakshmi Singh." It's like a tadpole dying in muck. Take a drink. Wet your mouth.

  Doug Stanhope

  Dying, Mouths, Drink

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• Sé que todos los imbéciles balbucean sobre el "hombre negro", el "macho", la "casualidad" y la "interpretación retrospectiva", con el fin de desterrar algo terriblemente inconveniente que podría mancillar la imagen familiar de la inocencia infantil. Ah, esta gente buena, eficiente y de mente sana, siempre me recuerda a esos renacuajos optimistas que toman el sol en un charco, en las aguas menos profundas, amontonándose y retorciendo amistosamente la cola, totalmente inconscientes de que a la mañana siguiente el charco se habrá secado y los habrá dejado abandonados.

  Carl Jung

  Morning, Optimistic, Men

  "Memories, Dreams, Reflections". Book by Carl Jung, recorded and edited By Aniela Jaffe, translated by Richard and Clara Winston, p. 14, archive.org. 1963.

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• When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

  Alain Prost

  Team, Frogs, British

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• Me encanta ver que la Naturaleza está tan llena de vida que se puede permitir el sacrificio de miríadas de seres y hacer que se depreden unos a otros; que tiernas organizaciones pueden ser tan serenamente aplastadas como pulpa, renacuajos que las garzas engullen, y tortugas y sapos atropellados en el camino; ¡y que a veces ha llovido carne y sangre! En cuanto a la responsabilidad ante los accidentes, hay que ver lo poco que hay que tenerla en cuenta.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Correr, Naturaleza, Sangre

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.187, Graphic Arts Books

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• Like all my poems, 'Negotiations' has several sources. It deals with aging lovers and the often silent deals they make. Thinking about bargains made me think of The Little Mermaid and that made me remember something I had just read about the incredibly complex process by which tadpoles (actual little mermaids) are somehow able to reabsorb their tails and fashion their future frog legs.

  Rae Armantrout

  Fashion, Thinking, Mermaid

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• Uno de los mayores problemas de las matemáticas es explicar a los demás en qué consisten. Los adornos técnicos de la materia, su simbolismo y formalidad, su desconcertante terminología, su aparente deleite en largos cálculos: todo ello tiende a oscurecer su verdadera naturaleza. Un músico se horrorizaría si su arte se resumiera en "un montón de renacuajos dibujados sobre una hilera de líneas"; pero eso es todo lo que el ojo inexperto puede ver en una página de partituras... Del mismo modo, el simbolismo de las matemáticas es sólo su forma codificada, no su sustancia.

  Ian Stewart

  Arte, Real, Ojo

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• And now she was just Gabby, currently staying in a dreamy, magnificent castle in Scotland with a Fae prince who did all kinds of non-nasty, non-inhuman things like tearing up lists of names, and returning tadpoles to lakes, and saving people's lives. Not to mention kissing with all the otherwordly splendor of a horny angel.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Angel, Kissing, Names

  Karen Marie Moning (2004). “The Immortal Highlander”, p.217, Delacorte Press

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