Elephants Quotes
364 Elephants quotes by 293 unique authors
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I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others’ backs at a circus.
— Gary Reilly
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If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses,…
— William Shakespeare
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The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
— Richard Leakey
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I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of…
— Tom Stoppard
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Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of…
— Terry Pratchett
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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
— Michael Caine
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Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.
— Yao Ming
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Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem…
— Nelson Mandela
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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
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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
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Diplomacy is much like the "lovemaking of elephants", which is accompanied with a lot of bellowing and other sound effects, but no one can be…
— Shashi Tharoor
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If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.
— Warren Buffett
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Now the freaks are on television, the freaks are in the movies. And it's no longer the sideshow, it's the whole show. The colorful circus…
— Jonathan Winters
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Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express their relationship with…
— Gregory Colbert
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The stars you see at night are the unblinking eyes of sleeping elephants, who sleep with one eye open to best keep watch over us.
— Gregory Colbert
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Consider the biggest animals on the planet: elephants, and buffaloes, and giraffes. These are vegetarian animals. They grow to thousands of pounds of muscle and…
— Michael Klaper
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Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.
— Michael Shannon
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I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small…
— Cherie Lunghi
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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
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I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in…
— Bertrand Russell
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