Elephant's Child Quotes

#1. No Child Left Behind ... is a giraffe with an elephant's body ... You can't take the vision of Ted Kennedy and merge it to the public policy of George Bush and come out with anything that works.

Steve Rauschenberger

#2. I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.

Sachin Tendulkar

#3. Whenever Maeve would mention another foster case or needy child she'd heard about and say, What's another pound on an elephant?

James Patterson

#4. Where the habits are simple, and the mind truly elevated, then is society in the best state ...

Mary Martha Sherwood

#5. When I was ten years old, I realized I'd been kidnapped as a toddler. Of course, I would have to have been a fairly dim child to miss the clues. Great big pink-elephant clues, trumpeting and lumbering and shitting through the house, ignored by everyone except me.

Augusten Burroughs

#6. Muthuhfuckin' muthuhfucker! I oughta come over there kick your ass myself, worryin'me like this? I got your back homes! I got your back!

Robert Crais

#7. The most dangerous kind of person ... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

Philip K. Dick

#8. Vancouver is the most wonderful place. I put it up there with San Francisco and Sydney as a kind of magic sort of harbor city.

Terence Stamp

#9. Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

Christopher Hitchens

#10. I'm that weird guy; I hate being told what to do.

Jason Winston George

#11. 'You're Ugly Too' isn't a comedy, but it has a lightness of touch with a hard edge. But it's essentially a warm story tinged with a bit of melancholy in the great Irish tradition. I'm very proud of that film.

Aidan Gillen

#12. I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.

Anthony Hopkins

#13. Best not to ask "What is it?" until you finish rolling in it.

Francesco Marciuliano

#14. My mum had me brought up by nannies and governesses. I didn't have much to do with my parents until I was 21.

Frederik, Crown Prince Of Denmark

#15. Smaller plates discourage gluttony. But so does dining with dwarves.

Jarod Kintz

#16. It's not my job to make you happy. It's your job to learn that only those who quit selfishly seeking their own happiness find it.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#17. When there is no vision, there is no hope.

George Washington

#18. I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's 'The Elephant's Child' and 'The Jungle Book.' Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant.

Michael Morpurgo