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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
I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog. -- Toni Braxton
The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
When you were a tadpole and I was a fish In the Paleozoic time. -- Langdon Smith
I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest. -- DeForest Kelley
"This is Lakshmi Singh." It's like a tadpole dying in muck. Take a drink. Wet your mouth. -- Doug Stanhope
When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog. -- Alain Prost
In a world full of monochromatic tadpoles, if you are fluorescent it does not matter what size of tadpole you are. -- Subroto Bagchi
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole. -- William S. Burroughs
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
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
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
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
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
Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education. -- Luther Burbank
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
I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner!" We all thought he was crazy. But then, we had some growing up to do. -- Jack Handey
I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs. -- William Joyce
Within six months of starting my Ph.D. work in 1956, I had already obtained feeding tadpoles derived from transplanted nuclei of embryonic cells. -- John Gurdon

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