Elephants Quotes · Page 6

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

— Herb Caen

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

“If you're gonna shoot an elephant Mr. Schneider, you better be prepared to finish the job.”

— Gary Larson

My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

— Agatha Christie

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.

— John Dryden

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

I watched a film called 'Elephant' recently. Its not stylish in the sense of expensive suits and Italian cars, but the styling…

— Tinie Tempah

We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the…

— Graydon Carter

“You’ll be seeing pink elephants, the way you drink.” “I find life thirsty work, old man,” Phineas said equably. “And besides, what…

— Peter Maughan

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to…

— Graydon Carter

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions.…

— Michael Jackson

Some people have family crests, lions, tigers, unicorns, elephants - a whole menagerie - and if my family had a crest, you…

— Gertrude Berg

I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I…

— David Crosby

Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of "The Elephant Man" and just recently collaborated on "Lazarus," an…

— David Bowie

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is,…

— Dave Matthews

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

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

It's often said that elephants are the most human of animals - there's something comical about their acquiescence, and tragic also. The…

— Dan Chiasson

“Elephants are therefore left only the option of being afraid of little things that sneak up and surprise them. Such things include…

— Stanley Bing

In terms of economical aspects, reinforcing those national parks with sophisticated anti-poaching patrols - these poachers are beefed up like the army.…

— Veronika Varekova

“She continued it to Hugh, 'Darling, do you know what mother and you are going to find beyond the blue horizon rim?'…

— Sinclair Lewis

The fact that the infrastructure is falling apart is not necessarily because it's built poorly. The New York City subways were built…

— Alan Weisman

I imagine the film ["300"] as if I was a Spartan and I had never seen an immortal or a Persian, or…

— Zack Snyder

I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

— Al Sharpton

'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and…

— Enoch Powell

It may surprise people to learn that one elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its ivory.

— Li Bingbing

Noah's wife, who said to Noah, Don't let the elephants watch the rabbits. Never got a dinner!

— Red Buttons

Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)

— Victor Borge

So slowly the hot elephant hearts grow full of desire, and the great beasts mate in secret at last, hiding their fire.

— D. H. Lawrence

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

— Mahatma Gandhi

China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'.

— Rahul Gandhi

I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.

— Anton Chekhov

Women are like Elephants. I like to watch them, but I wouldn't want to own one.

— WC Fields

Some women are like elephants. I don't mean size, I mean they never forget.

— Laura Schlessinger

I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.

— Will Rogers

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or…

— Margaret Atwood

Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.

— W. C. Fields