African Clawed Frogs

Famous quotes containing the words african, clawed and/or frogs:

“A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,—a denizen of the woods. “The pale white man!” I do not wonder that the African pitied him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“For age with stealing steps
Hath clawed me with his crutch,”
—Thomas Vaux, 2d Baron Vaux Of Harrowden (1510–1566)

“One cannot speak of ice to summer insects nor talk about the sky to frogs in a well.”
—Chinese proverb.