Top 100 Elephant Quotes
#1. Love isn't something you can just unlearn ... no matter who you are, or who you're born to, or how much it's not returned - - Elephant Girl
Jane Devin
#2. Stick that bumbershoot
in elephant's foot
brolly stand behind
the big door. Mind
your manners at High tea.
Tim Dlugos
#3. The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.
Pope Gregory I
#4. Ghostface, catch the blast of a hype verse,
My glock bursts, leave in a hearse, I did worse.
I come rough, tough like an elephant tusk,
Ya head rush, fly like Egyptian musk.
Ghostface Killah
#5. Flamingo necks, peacock brains, pike livers, lark tongues, sow's udders, elephant trunks and ears extravagantly frilled with parsley.
Kate Quinn
#6. There are lots of animals in the house.
There's an elephant in the hall,
a seal in the bathtub,
a crane in the laundry,
a tiger on the stairs,
and a polar bear by the fridge.
Does this have anything to do with you?
John Burningham
#7. If its about the existence of god, you may as well ask me, what the square root of an elephant is?
Steve Merrick
#8. We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.
Colin Mochrie
#9. Q: How do you tell when there's an elephant in the pit?
A: Peanut shells on the floor.
Bucky Sinister
#11. OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.
A. M. Rosenthal
#12. When the elephant decides to walk through the village, all the dogs come out and bark.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#13. Elizabeth is stumbling about the Stromonds' ballroom with all the grace of a baby elephant. Granted, she doesn't weigh much, but it may prove fatal to the Stromonds' porcelain.
Meredith Duran
#14. Whimper in the dark, and knew that Vixen had found me at last. She knew as well as I did that if there is one thing in the world the elephant is more afraid of than another it is a little barking dog. So she
Rudyard Kipling
#15. Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man
and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is 'bad.
Frank Zappa
#16. If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.
Kate DiCamillo
#19. Another example of how connected we all are, and are meant to be, is the story of the "elephant whisperer," the late Lawrence Anthony. He was a conservationist who saved the lives of countless elephants
Christiane Northrup
#20. You must have been some kind of raging elephant, because it took three darts for them to take you down.
Susan Kaye Quinn
#21. There was a low rumbling. "I'm going to kill somebody," said the Elephant. "As soon as I figure out who."
"Whoa, dear heart," said the Marquis, rubbing his hands together. "You mean whom.
Neil Gaiman
#22. Even though the topic [of slavery] itself is the big, screaming elephant in the room, we still get a chance to have fun and enjoy what is on the screen, and we have moments where we're actually happy.
Aldis Hodge
#23. It was an exceedingly odd thing to see an elephant in a spacesuit.
Alastair Reynolds
#24. Elephants have a theory of mind - they can think into the head of another elephant and infer their knowledge of the world, including errors and omissions of knowledge. That puts them above all but a handful of species - a few primates, some very smart birds and cetaceans.
Alastair Reynolds
#25. We must love all of creation, not only what is common. A god may have the head of an elephant, after all.
Kay Kenyon
#27. I watched a film called 'Elephant' recently. Its not stylish in the sense of expensive suits and Italian cars, but the styling on every single character is spot on.
Tinie Tempah
#28. No more unnerving than Christians praying at the feet of a man nailed to a cross, or Hindus chanting in front of a four-armed elephant named Ganesh. Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of prejudice.
Dan Brown
#29. The elephant can survive only if forests survive.
Mark Shand
#30. God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.
Max Lucado
#31. China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'.
Rahul Gandhi
#32. I'm not much for cats. I'm terrified of mice. I've worked a lot with elephants, and they are extremely intelligent and sensitive, and thankfully, they seem to like me. You never want to get on the bad side of an elephant. And never trust a chimp.
Mary Ellen Mark
#33. PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.
Ambrose Bierce
#34. As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
Gautama Buddha
#35. It's very difficult to move yourself up bit by bit. It's like trying to eat an elephant for God's sake. I can do it. It's just I have to have it bite by bite, you know. It's possible. You can eat an elephant, but you have to do it bite by bite. You can't do it all in one go.
Colin Montgomerie
#36. You should try making more noise as you walk, too." Curran suggested. "Maybe the ghouls will mistake you for a small underground elephant and run off."
"When we get out of here, I'll kick you."
"You'll try.
Ilona Andrews
#37. How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness.
Chris Ervin
#38. Apples to oranges, the act of comparing your life to another's is more like comparing an elephant to an apple, it makes no sense to compare someone's life that you have no knowledge about to that of your own, of which in all earnest is not something that you completely understand yourself.
Forrest Curran
#39. I still think I'm fat. Right now I'm worrying about how I'm going to lose weight after the pregnancy. I feel like an elephant, but I do get the occasional sexy pregnant day where I think I look great.
Lily Allen
#40. A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.
Jostein Gaarder
#41. Of course, Jules was not a wolf. She was an elephant. But Jules was a very young toy and she had never been to school to learn the difference.
Julie B. Campbell
#42. Writing a book is like washing an elephant. You don't know from where you should start and where you should end.
Yashvardhan Shukla
#43. Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in the mode of transport and lifestyle of people. The ones in the wild are also no better off, as the forests are shrinking.
Mark Shand
#44. People are so difficult. Give me an elephant any day.
Mark Shand
#45. You live in a damnably twisted and convoluted world," replied Mathias. "And you are trampling accross it with all the delicacy of an elephant in a glass shop!" -Conversation between Mathias Munster and Giacomo Foscarini
Riccardo Bruni
#46. Follow and elephant or a donkey for too long, and you'll eventually get dumped on.
A.G. Roderick
#48. There are some people the gestation period is like an elephant's and it's just years and years before they're ready.
John Amaechi
#49. Contact means the exchange of specific knowledge, ideas, or at least of findings, definite facts. But what if no exchange is possible? If an elephant is not a giant microbe, the ocean is not a giant brain.
James E. Lovelock
#50. I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.
Richard Dawkins
#51. Ella is nervous," the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. "The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella.
Rick Riordan
#52. So I went home and I told my mom that I wanted to quit and be an actress and she said, "Huh, that sounds fascinating. It's wonderful!" [laughs] And I told my father and he literally said, "I don't care if you want to be an elephant trainer if it makes you happy."
Gena Rowlands
#53. A jolly young fellow from Yuma
Told an elephant joke to a puma;
now his skeleton lies
beneath hot western skies-
the puma had no sense of huma
Ogden Nash
#54. I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.
Anthony Hopkins
#55. I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.
Jesse Ball
#56. An elephant overcome obstacles and barriers, and crush whatever standing in his path, obstacles and barriers, in the name of Jesus, clear-off.
Ademola Adejumo
#57. But that's her problem, not mine. No, my problem is elephantine. How do you eat an elephant, sir? Bit by tiny bit.
Sally Gardner
#58. I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#59. The lion's blessing is in his strength; the monkey's blessing is in his cunning; and the elephant's blessing is in his might.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#60. An ant can't define shape of an elephant solely from its' point of view.
They have to unify all views. It's a way for ant to understand elephant.
In order to understand true realities, men need to do mental blending.
Toba Beta
#61. In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of the traditional elephant corridors.
Mark Shand
#62. Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they're not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In 'Elephant' we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted.
Gus Van Sant
#63. I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.'
Enrico Fermi
#64. I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
Stephen Fry
#65. But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.
Isabella Rossellini
#67. Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.
Ross Perot
#68. We must have bearers, and outriders, and perhaps an elephant - they are so imposing, nothing says 'Get out of the way' quite like an elephant in the front . . .
Neil Gaiman
#69. Oys by civil calculations, we had by now roughed up the swami and slept where the elephant shits, Shocking us would have required some kind of genius.
Woe To Live On
Daniel Woodrell
#70. Harun AlRashid known for his wealth & diplomatic relations, sent an embassy to France that included an elephant & a water clock
Firas Alkhateeb
#71. It is what it is"... and "You can only eat an elephant one bite at a time, and sometimes when life throws things at you that are pretty challanging and it is really big elephant, envision it to be chocolate covered to make the bites much more yummy and easier to swallow."
T.L. Wood
#72. Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.
Charlie Chaplin
#73. Now, I whispered. Boom! boom! boom! went the three heavy rifles, and down came Sir Henry's elephant dead as a hammer, shot right through the heart.
H. Rider Haggard
#74. Let's get the elephant out of the room. I'm a conservative Democrat.
Scott Howell
#75. Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.
Zoroaster
#76. But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest.
Gautama Buddha
#77. When there's an elephant in the room introduce him.
Randy Pausch
#78. Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse to elephant.
Frans De Waal
#81. I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.
Isak Dinesen
#82. I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#83. I'll do anything to keep everyone laughing. Things get too intense on film sets. I remember on The Elephant Man, I used to imitate a cat without moving my lips. David Lynch would say, "Cut! Sorry, we've got a noise somewhere on set." Everyone would be looking around for this cat.
Anthony Hopkins
#84. The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
David Attenborough
#85. The big elephant sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply unqualified for the job. What's his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?
Ron Reagan
#86. 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 with the world's oldest fish (coelacanth) and the world's biggest marine mammal (whale)
Nelson Mandela
#87. 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
#88. It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even "realities"; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a "solitary elephant.
Emil Cioran
#89. Erwin, Tennessee, has the unusual distinction of being the only town in America to have hung an elephant. That was in 1916, and the elephant had it coming. Since then there have been no more elephant incidents.
David Miller
#92. Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way out of it. You cannot psychologically reframe your experience and decide you did not like the shirt, here's an excuse to throw it out - that sort of thing.
Robert M. Sapolsky
#93. Q: What's the difference between a tweaker and an elephant?
A: The elephant will eat all your peanut butter.
Bucky Sinister
#94. When I said I wanted to die in my sleep, I meant I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.
Roger Zelazny
#95. When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away. it's best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln
#97. I'm like an elephant, ok? If I walk into a room, it's like, OK, he's in there.
Aziz Ansari
#98. If you want to live longer and to be strong, intelligent, loving, and kind--then don't follow a tiger. Follow an elephant.
Debasish Mridha
#99. The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)
Victor Borge
#100. There is a vast asymmetry in the dynamic here that Billy can't quite put his finger on, even though it's the elephant shitting all over the room.
Ben Fountain
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