Elephants Quotes · Page 6

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

— Bobby Knight

If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.

— Warren Buffett

“It is the tame elephants who enjoy capturing the wild ones.”

— George Bernard Shaw

My wife loves elephants and compares me to a big bull elephant.

— Shawn Crahan

“Eleven Benevolent Elephants. Yeah! Say that five times real fast.”

— Donald Allen Kirch

If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid.

— Eddie Izzard

“People like old elephants better than sewers and fire engines.”

— Haruki Murakami

Oh, it's you," Curran's voice said quietly. "I thought it was an elephant.

— Ilona Andrews

You see, in a world where elephants are pursued by flying men, people are just naturally going to want to get high.

— Judith Rascoe

And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze About a star of deathless and painless peace But no astronomer can find where…

— Ted Hughes

Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would…

— Ferdowsi

Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many…

— Peter Drucker

I don't like taboo subjects and I don't like elephants in the room. If there's an elephant in the room, I really…

— Frank Skinner

The big elephant sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply unqualified for the job. What's his accomplishment? That…

— Ron Reagan

We know African and Asian elephants can interbreed, and they're separated by 5 million to 6 million years.

— Hendrik Poinar

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.

— Richard Leakey

“Gentlemen," returned Mr. Micawber, "do with me as you will! I am a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am…

— Charles Dickens

I think that the reason that people are so up in arms about movies that have historical inaccuracies is because now that…

— Nicholas Meyer

Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but…

— Frans de Waal

I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler, whose son now…

— Bill Cosby

What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade…

— Yahya Jammeh

I'm really into moderation. Too much of anything will harm you in the end. Too much sugar. Too much pasta. I'm into…

— Tori Amos

“The reader, knowing nothing about the ‘dark continent,’ filled in the blanks. Pictured Stone in a tent, kerosene lamp held up by…

— Abraham Verghese

I go to the opera. It's mostly my wife that's a bigger fan, I'd say, than I am. I like the big…

— John Roberts

Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules.…

— Umberto Eco

How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let…

— David Hume

A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness.…

— Gregory Maguire

A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther…

— Rudyard Kipling

We are having to pull money into site-level protection for elephants just to keep them alive. But there isn't enough money to…

— Allen Crawford

Americans should never underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere presence of the United States has produced. We're different people…

— Pierre Trudeau

“I am she who lifts the mountains When she goes to hunt, Who wears mamba for a headband And a lion for…

— Nancy Farmer

“Solomon breathed a sigh of relief ever so slightly, thankful that the cricket had not been eaten. Not that he was concerned…

— Michael Delaware

Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.

— Saint Francis de Sales

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

— Noel Coward

Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.

— Patricia Heaton

Mother elephants in the circus cannot help their babies, but we can,

— Edie Falco

He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.

— Val McDermid

There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.

— Desmond Tutu

Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.

— Peter Drucker

I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.

— Anthony Hopkins