Elephants Quotes

Pointless... like giving caviar to an elephant.

— William Faulkner

Elephants are magnificient creatures.

— Paul Craig Roberts

I wanted to work with an elephant.

— Robert Pattinson

When elephants fight, ants get killed.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Women and elephants never forget.

— Dorothy Parker

“When elephants fight, the grass suffers.”

— Nnedi Okorafor

I had a probing mind and an elephant memory.

— Ethel Waters

“Masai and elephants. The rest is dust.”

— Alastair Reynolds

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

— Jesse Ball

“I'm a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by the elephants”

— Charles Dickens

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

— Dinesh D'Souza

Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.

— Michael Koryta

Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

— Paul Dickson

“Q: How do you tell when there's an elephant in the pit? A: Peanut shells on the floor.”

— Bucky Sinister

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

— Ritchie Blackmore

Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.

— Yao Ming

“Whales are like elephants of the sea. They have family structures, mannerisms, and habits that are similar to our own.”

— Terri Irwin

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically…

— Ani DiFranco

I don't know how many lions and leopards I've shot. I've shot two elephants, which was enough - never again. It's a…

— Wilbur Smith

My biggest concern and main engagement with UNEP is focused on endangered species and illegal wildlife trade - mostly elephants, rhinos, etc.

— Yaya Toure

The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.

— Pope Gregory I

It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a…

— Josh Billings

I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged,…

— Wyndham Lewis

I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others’ backs at a circus.

— Gary Reilly

Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express…

— Gregory Colbert

I spent a lot of my life - 20 years of it - in war, training army trackers and commanding a tracker…

— Allan Savory

I think my approach is best summarised with the colloquial elephant in the room. These elephants are everywhere, but people pretend they…

— Hito Steyerl

It's said that when we die, the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - dissolve one by one, each into…

— Pema Chodron

Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even…

— Jack Handey

The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its…

— Pliny the Elder

~I'm not someone who [lives] like, 'OK, this is a museum and you can't sit here and you can't touch this and…

— Heidi Klum

Second, you need to spread the large amount of information knowledge that you've gained-pooping like an elephant. This means sharing information and…

— Guy Kawasaki

Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“The Babar the Elephant book is sitting in front of me. I pick it up and start reading it. I remember reading…

— james frey

I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“Elephant, beyond the fact that their size and conformation are aesthetically more suited to the treading of this earth than our angular…

— Beryl Markham

“The way circus elephants are trained demonstrates this dynamic well: When young, they are attached by heavy chains to large stakes driven…

— Gavin de Becker

One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every…

— Charlie Campbell

High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right…

— Richard Bangs

“Of all African animals, the elephant is the most difficult for man to live with, yet its passing - if this must…

— Peter Matthiessen