Elephant Quotes

268 Elephant quotes by 215 unique authors

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on. — Christopher Hitchens
I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school. — Anthony Hopkins
If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid. — Eddie Izzard
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. — Jackie Kennedy
Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss. — Lenny Kravitz
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. — Abraham Lincoln
God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant. — Max Lucado
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know. — Groucho Marx
We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second. — Colin Mochrie
Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the… — Mira Nair
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying… — Pablo Picasso
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole. — Samuel Richardson
There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have… — Gus Van Sant
I had to wear a fat suit to play Mma Ramotswe in 'The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.' She's described as being like a small… — Jill Scott
I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead. — Sting
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can… — Pierre Trudeau
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail… — Desmond Tutu
My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere. — Steven Wright
While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to… — Roger Zelazny
Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff… — Frans de Waal
I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant. — Sherman Alexie
But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant — Jeffrey Eugenides
A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness. The syndrom especially… — Gregory Maguire
When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him. — Randy Pausch
The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know… — C.S. Lewis

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