Quotes About Antelope

#1. Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.

Chinua Achebe

#2. A hunter who is going to shoot an antelope does not waste his bullets on the dog.

Israelmore Ayivor

#3. Prey animals such as zebras and antelope have eyes at the sides of their heads, but a predator's eyes face forward. Always show the cat your face. Let her see where your eyes are, and she'll know you're a predator, too. She'll think twice before attacking.

Tess Gerritsen

#4. Perhaps when we die our names are taken
from us by a divine magnet and are free
to flutter here and there within the bodies of birds.
I'll be a simple crow
who can reach the top of Antelope Butte.
(From: Hard Times)

Jim Harrison

#5. Suzanne Briet proposed in 1951 that an antelope running wild would not be a document, but an antelope taken into a zoo would be one,

Lisa Gitelman

#6. Now, if the question were to destroy a lion, a tiger, a cat, a hyena, I could understand it; but to deprive an antelope or a gazelle of life, to no other purpose than the gratification of your instincts as a sportsman, seems hardly worth the trouble.

Jules Verne

#7. Matheus wondered if the antelope ever volunteered to be eaten by the lion.

Amy Fecteau

#8. It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.

Havelock Ellis

#9. I'll eat anything. I ate antelope once in Swaziland. I didn't know what it was until I'd started chewing it. Everything tastes like chicken though doesn't it? It wasn't bad.

Nicholas Hoult

#10. I WANT A friend called Penelope. When I know her well enough, I'll ask her why she doesn't rhyme with antelope.

Caitriona Lally

#11. The sadness in your heart is a yesterday you can no longer see, so put it behind you and walk always forward.
Swift Antelope to Amy in Comanche Heart

Catherine Anderson

#12. Water was how the desert would bring everyone together. The antelope's daily prayer, weighing the mortal need of water with the mortal danger of obtaining it.

Mike Bond

#13. Whenever I have a little time off, I try to go back to my farm in South Africa. I'll spend time with my family and hunt antelope, kudu and springbok. During a 2010 hunting trip, I tore some ligaments in my ankle when I stepped in a hole.

Louis Oosthuizen

#14. A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.

Michael Behe

#15. Never lose sight of an antelope for a dashing squirrel.

PLO Lumumba

#16. Stop looking at me like that."
"Like what?"
"Like you're hunting me. I'm not an antelope.

Colleen Houck

#17. No, Mr. Swift's mind doesn't work that way, any more than my father's does. They're men of business. Predators. If Mr. Swift wanted me, he wouldn't stop to ask for my permission any more than a lion would stop and politely ask an antelope if he would mind being eaten for lunch.

Lisa Kleypas

#18. He has a superb groin. A silky pouch. A secret garden. The groin of a sire. I once saw just such a creamy, velvet groin on a male antelope.

Anonymous

#19. Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you've got to run like an antelope out of control!

Trey Anastasio

#20. To me, fast food is when a cheetah eats an antelope.

George Carlin

#21. He had instigated a detailed study of the limb bones and locomotor patterns of a number of modern antelopes; the functions of varying bone structures of their legs could then be ascertained. Then, from the structure of fossil antelope bones reconstructed their movements.

Jane Goodall

#22. Pronghorn antelope were the second fastest mammals on earth - only an African cheetah could outrun them.

C.J. Box

#23. One observer estimated that in 1901 Texas alone had eight hundred million prairie dogs.4 Jack rabbits were nearly as numerous. Antelope and deer numbered in the millions, as did the wolves and coyotes, and there were thousands of elk, bear, and other game.

Stephen E. Ambrose

#24. Time to paint your but white and run with antelope-in English- Stop arguing and do as your told.

Charles Martin

#25. I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes.

Jose Mujica

#26. If you were called to gallop like the horse, never end up hopping like the frog. Rise up for greatness.

Israelmore Ayivor

#27. Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.

Benjamin Tucker

#28. It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.

Nadine Gordimer

#29. Coco Chanel hated me. I can understand why.

Mary Quant

#30. It is vital for these new believers to understand that this is not a cult following any man. We seek the risen Lord. Our allegiance is to him alone. All power derives from Jesus and resides in him.

Janette Oke