A Quote by Tony Joe White

Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean, there lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame. — © Tony Joe White
Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean, there lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame.
Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.
Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.
Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.
Well, I'm wrestling alligators.
It’s so hard for me to sit back here in this studio, looking at a guy out here, hollering my name!—When last year I spent more money, on spilled liquor, in bars from one side of this world to the other, than you made! You’re talking to the Rolex wearing, diamond ring wearing, kiss stealing, whoa! wheelin dealin’, limosuine riding, jet flying son of a gun and I’m having a hard time holding these alligators down!
Well, Im wrestling alligators.
I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.
My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.
All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.
People wrestle alligators but not once has someone done it without an audience.
I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.
I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. Its a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.
Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell.
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