Elephant Quotes

268 Elephant quotes by 215 unique authors

The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we've enlisted to do the work we couldn't handle - the horse, donkey, elephant, camel,… — Victoria Moran
When children see animals in a circus, they learn that animals exist for our amusement. Quite apart from the cruelty involved in training and confining… — Peter Singer
Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any. — Michael Shannon
Second, you need to spread the large amount of information knowledge that you've gained-pooping like an elephant. This means sharing information and discoveries with your… — Guy Kawasaki
It does not matter if you vote for the left or right, you are not an elephant or donkey. You are a truthful lion who… — Suzy Kassem
Even animals have a conscience. Those in the jungle KILL only to eat, not live to kill. This is why we often see packs of… — Suzy Kassem
What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance,… — Plutarch
The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure. — William Shakespeare
We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though,… — David Brin
I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what it's about later.… — Wallace Shawn
PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes… — Ambrose Bierce
As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped… — Ramakrishna
I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret. — Catherynne M. Valente
If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to… — Kate DiCamillo
I want to get a real sense of intimate connection with each of the animals - with that particular lion or elephant in front of… — Nick Brandt
I watched a film called 'Elephant' recently. Its not stylish in the sense of expensive suits and Italian cars, but the styling on every single… — Tinie Tempah
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic,… — Wyndham Lewis
I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures… — Thomas Browne
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. — Herb Caen
Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant… — Frank Zappa
Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also… — Chris Noth
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which the… — Bertrand Russell
Whereas all humans have approximately the same life expectancy the life expectancy of stars varies as much as from that of a butterfly to that… — George Gamow
But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome. — Isabella Rossellini

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