Middle-grade Quote by Kate DiCamillo

“I'm sorry I didn't know it was an elephant; I thought it was part of the furniture! ”

— Stephen King

“And so we nearly ran into an elephant; eh?”

— Laura Lee Hope

“In between them stood an elephant and she felt she ought to point it out.”

— Paula Hawkins

“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

“What if you like the elephant were gone to the place you were meant, after all, to be?”

— Kate DiCamillo

“and as the worms pant for your bones, I would so like to tell you that this happens to bears and elephants”

— Charles Bukowski

“And that is how the problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant…

— Cecelia Ahern

“Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“When I look up, I’m surprised to find myself in front of the old building. My feet must have gone on autopilot. I’m like…

— Meg Medina

“She uttered a sound rather like an elephant taking its foot out of a mud hole in a Burmese teak forest.”

— P G Wodehouse

“The novel is a kind of elephant. But I like to make that elephant dance on a quarter.”

— John Banville

“An elephant trumpeted, raising its trunk into the sky, as they flew overhead. To the untrained eye, it seemed like a greeting. But Cecilia,…

— Brian Falkner