Born Quote by Pat Derby

It's often said that elephants are the most human of animals - there's something comical about their acquiescence, and tragic also. The long elephant…

— Dan Chiasson

Elephants love to play around. They are very intelligent animals. They have a strong bond, at times stretching to several decades, with their mahouts.

— Mark Shand

We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we…

— Graydon Carter

To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day. Touched by the family, cuddled and comforted.…

— Daphne Sheldrick

Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we…

— Alex Shoumatoff

“For the herds of wild elephants show no resentment when domesticated animals join them. They have none of that herd instinct directed against the…

— Lt.-Col. J. H. Williams O.B.E

If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so.

— Pierre Corneille

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

— Gloria Steinem

My wife loves elephants and compares me to a big bull elephant.

— Shawn Crahan

I feel I must have been an elephant in a former life. I love the sensitivity and peaceful force of these creatures.

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

Elephants are social, thoughtful animals. They live in communities and - I have to say it - in matriarchal societies. They bear no grudge,…

— Margrethe Vestager

“The only 'elephant' left in the room is love.”

— Benjamin Aubrey Myers