Elephant Quotes

268 quotes by 225 authors

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? — David Attenborough
Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant. — Ritchie Blackmore
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics. — Madeleine Albright
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'. — Charlie Chaplin
What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you.… — John Sedgwick
The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys… — Pliny the Elder
I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I… — Sam Snead
Suppose you came across a woman lying on the street with an elephant sitting on her chest. You notice she is short of breath. Shortness… — Sally Ride
To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form… — John Dewey
When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it. — Alejandro Jodorowsky
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist... — John Sedgwick
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in… — Bertrand Russell
Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest -… — Peter Singer
The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to… — Saint Francis de Sales
Mediocrity is the elephant in the room. — Kevin Spacey
I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant,… — Dianna Agron
The Elephant Man would never have gotten up and gone, â€˜Oh, God. Look at me hair today.â€™ — Karl Pilkington
I wanted to work with an elephant. — Robert Pattinson
The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant. — Geraldine McCaughrean
Animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us. They are more perfect because they remain within Natureâ€™s fearful… — Daphne Sheldrick

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