Beginning Quote by Jennifer Richard Jacobson

“They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.”

— John Sedgwick

“The six elephants stood, roped each by the foreleg side by side in the vast thirty-foot tent put up several days since for their…

— Dorothy Dunnett

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

— Peter Matthiessen

“Life blew in gusts from the hole in the side of the elephant with a rank smell and a comic flatulence.”

— Michael Chabon

“It’s more like he was an ant in the land of elephants. Nobody would notice his presence, no matter how much noise he might…

— B. Barmanbek

“I have felt the swaying of the elephant's shoulders; and now you want me to climb on a jackass? Try to be serious.”

— Mirabai

“The white hunter was laughing happily, his adoring girl was open-mouthed in admiration for his nerve, I was sweating with dismay and outrage, and…

— Martha Gellhorn

Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated…

— Lois Lowry

“The blind men before the elephant are thus, in their way, like astrobiologists or like scientists in any new field at the frontiers of…

— Rob Dunn

“When an elephant walks, it kills many small creatures; when we walk, we kill many small creatures; we are all random killers!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“It is the tame elephants who enjoy capturing the wild ones.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“But yet, but yet . . . the night he died, they [the elephants] were right there outside his house. And they came every…

— Lawrence Anthony