Construction Quote by Joanna Lumley

Giraffes are fairytale animals, almost heraldic - as if from the land of fables. They have extremely beautiful faces, huge eyes, very sensitive nostrils…

— Joanna Lumley

A bit of advice: never read a pop-up book about giraffes.

— Sean Lock

However much you know giraffes, to see one in the wild for the first time feels prehistoric.

— Jane Goodall

Being a very tall person, I have always felt a kinship with giraffes.

— Alexandra Bracken

Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction.

— Geraldine Jewsbury

A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in…

— Isak Dinesen

I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the way up…

— Robert Solow

“Japan and Hong Kong are steadily whittling away at the last of the elephants, turning their tusks (so much more elegant left on the…

— Gerald Durrell

NASA might do well to adopt the Red Bull approach to branding and astronautics. Suddenly the man in the spacesuit is not an underpaid…

— Mary Roach

The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?

— Joseph Murray

“No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.”

— Annie Dillard

A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.

— Robert Fulghum