When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet. — Val McDermid Copy Share Image
What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine. — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Armies and former soldiers are working in the field to help protect elephants. Some have suggested staining the ivory; cameras and trackers… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Elephants seek food elsewhere if their route is blocked, and raiding crops and grain stores brings them into conflict with people, often… — Mark Shand Copy Share Image
You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean,… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants.… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Of all African animals, the elephant is the most difficult for man to live with, yet its passing - if this must… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right… — Richard Bangs Copy Share Image
The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we've enlisted to do the work we couldn't handle - the horse,… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is,… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which… — Kenneth Kaunda Copy Share Image
“Elephants are therefore left only the option of being afraid of little things that sneak up and surprise them. Such things include… — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
In terms of economical aspects, reinforcing those national parks with sophisticated anti-poaching patrols - these poachers are beefed up like the army.… — Veronika Varekova Copy Share Image
This New York thing is being blown out of proportion. Who gives a **** about New York when elephants are being killed? — Lee Ryan Copy Share Image
When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk. — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
Do not carry with you your mistakes. Do not carry your cares. Travel on alone. Like an elephant in the forest. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair. — Saadi Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people who sees Frank Zappa in a cup of coffee, or elephants wrestling in clouds. But also, conscious… — Idara Victor Copy Share Image
Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
As Dr. Chiang puts it, “while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls. — Carlo M. Cipolla Copy Share Image
Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Leo couldn't help smiling. "That could be fun." "Fun" she said unhappily. "Blue elephants." "Blue elephants." "Kiss me you fool." "You fool. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes, may your wife be plagued… — Little' Jimmy Dickens Copy Share Image
Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
