Kangaroo Quotes

“I was also sick of my neighbors, as most Parisians are. I now knew every second of the morning routine of the family upstairs. At 7:00 am alarm goes off, boom, Madame gets out of bed, puts on her deep-sea divers’ boots, and stomps across my ceiling to megaphone the kids awake. The kids drop bags of cannonballs onto the floor, then, apparently dragging several sledgehammers each, stampede into the kitchen. They grab their chunks of baguette and go and sit in front of the TV, which is always showing a cartoon about people who do nothing but scream at each other and explode. Every minute, one of the kids cartwheels (while bouncing cannonballs) back into the kitchen for seconds, then returns (bringing with it a family of excitable kangaroos) to the TV. Meanwhile the toilet is flushed, on average, fifty times per drop of urine expelled. Finally, there is a ten-minute period of intensive yelling, and at 8:15 on the dot they all howl and crash their way out of the apartment to school.” (p.137)”
― Stephen Clarke, A Year in the Merde

“We know that there are many animals on this continent not found in the Old World. These must have been carried from here to the ark, and then brought back afterwards. Were the peccary, armadillo, ant-eater, sloth, agouti, vampire-bat, marmoset, howling and prehensile-tailed monkey, the raccoon and muskrat carried by the angels from America to Asia? How did they get there? Did the polar bear leave his field of ice and journey toward the tropics? How did he know where the ark was? Did the kangaroo swim or jump from Australia to Asia? Did the giraffe, hippopotamus, antelope and orang-outang journey from Africa in search of the ark? Can absurdities go farther than this?”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

“The kangaroo has a double penis - one for week days and one for holidays.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“»Die Deutschen wollen ja rebellisch sein«, sage ich nickend. »Sie warten ja nur auf einen, der es ihnen erlaubt«.”
― Marc-Uwe Kling, Das Känguru-Manifest

“Della sank down beside the creek, waiting for the flash of white fur that would herald Tidda's arrival. The first time she'd come across Tidda she'd been no more than a joey hardly big enough to be out of her mother's pouch. Perhaps because she was different, with her strange lack of color and red eyes, the mob had rejected her. Charity reckoned it was the sign of the devil, a punishment or a curse from the Darkinjung ancestral spirits. That was nothing but a load of rubbish. Tidda was more beautiful than most because of the strange trick natures had played upon her.”
― Tea Cooper, The Woman in the Green Dress

“A movement caught his attention. A flash of white, a dash of color, dusty red against the gray-green of the leaves. Dragon lizards skittered into hiding behind the rocks as he stepped out of the trees into the clearing.
A girl, hair dangling down her back in disarray, homespun skirt hitched up underneath a heavy leather apron, her brown feet bare, crouched beside a pool, hand outstretched to a pure white animal with large powerful hind legs and a long muscular tail.
He'd read about these strange quadrupeds in the baron's notes. Kangaroos, the New Hollanders called them, and they were plentiful, reds and browns and grays, but white? And the girl like some Valkyrie. Hair the color of warm chestnut settling around her sculptured face.”
― Tea Cooper, The Woman in the Green Dress

“Learn the art of living in the desert from a camel; learn the art of jumping from a kangaroo! The person who does the job best is also the best teacher in that job!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“ক্যাঙারু , ভাই ক্যাঙারু!
তুমি অস্ট্রেলিয়ার আত্মা
এই ব্যর্থতা থেকে পরিত্রাণ
এই নির্জনতার সঙ্গী

তোমারই জন্যে তৈরি হয়েছে
পৃথিবীর এই পঞ্চম, ঘন
মহাদেশ, যেন নতুন জন্ম
হলো তার, যেন
আদিযুগে সে তো ছিল না,

(গোড়ার কাজটা ভালো লেগেছিল,
সেই প্রেরণায় ঈশ্বর, তাঁর
আপন সৃষ্টি আশীর্বাদ করেছেন)

প্রথম পাপেই উঠে এল এই
মহাদেশ, সেই অভিশাপ থেকে
আজ এ-বন্ধ্যা জঙ্গল!

ক্যাঙারু, ভাই ক্যাঙারু!
একনজরে তো অসংগতিই দেখেছি
পরমুহূর্তে গোলমাল মিটে”
― Barron Field, Geographical Memoirs On New South Wales: By Various Hands...Together With Other Papers On the Aborigines, the Geology, the Botany, the Timber, the ... of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land

“What's the age of consent in Australia? Like, kangaroo?”
― Josh Henderson

“Life is like a kangaroo. It goes up and down and sometimes will kick you in the nuts for no reason.”
― shroomie

“The main lesson taken from the kangaroo is that it does not step backward. It is not possible for it. It always goes forward, even when going around in circles! It's long tail is like the trunk of a tree and bears its weight. Many people choose kangaroo as their totem because they feel a real kinship and recognize the necessity of learning balance in their personality. I liked the idea of looking back over my life and considering, even when it appeared I had made mistakes or poor choices; on some level of my being, it was the best I could do at the time. In the long run it was going to prove to be a step forward.”
― Marlo Morgan, Mutant Message Down Under