Elephant's Child Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

George Washington

#4. 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

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

Jarod Kintz

#6. 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

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

Francesco Marciuliano

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

Anthony Hopkins

#9. '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

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

Jason Winston George

#11. 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

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

Philip K. Dick

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Mary Martha Sherwood

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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