Top 59 Quotes About Donkeys
#1. My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, 'OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what it's like.' I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing 'Memory.' I was terrible. Terrible.
Emilia Clarke
#2. The trick of getting donkeys down from minarets," said the Patrician, as the desert unwound below them, "is always to find that part of the donkey which seriously wishes to get down." The
Terry Pratchett
#3. Raising donkeys in the midst of horses will not make them sprinters.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#4. The carrot and the stick are prevasive and persuasive motivators. But if you treat people like donkeys, they will perform like donkeys.
John Whitmore
#5. We ended up moving out to Texas. We live outside of Austin. We've got a couple horses, we've got three miniature donkeys, we've got four dogs. Miniature donkeys are very warm, loving animals.
Kyle Chandler
#6. There are no bigger donkeys than these workers ... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.
Karl Marx
#7. The penguins love Emma. They waddle around, dive in and out of their pool, call out to her. She laughs. "They sound like donkeys!"
"Maybe you can talk to donkeys, too," Dr. Milligan smiles.
Emma nods. "I can. Sometimes Galen can be a jackass.
Anna Banks
#8. The city was a puzzle box built of symbols, a confusion of old and new, armored cars and donkeys in the streets, Bedouins and bankers. The Turks and Haredim, the showy Greek and Russian processions -- everyone seemed to be in costume, reenacting the miraculous past.
Stewart O'Nan
#9. I grew up with donkeys, as well as horses, but I'm more interested in donkeys.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
#10. There's over 2000 donkeys in this tournament and I had to be at the table with none of them.
Mike Matusow
#11. It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.
Jim Hightower
#12. If you finish eating this food, I'll get you a whole herd of giant donkeys."
"That's the strangest bribe I've ever heard of,
Ilona Andrews
#13. My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
#14. Christ was born in a manger, laying down amongst donkeys ang goats. He was given gifts of incense and perfume. No kidding.
Dana Gould
#15. Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot.
J.B. Priestley
#17. Crabs, crabs, crabs. Crabs the size of beach donkeys.
Guy N. Smith
#19. And the political system is changing rapidly in this country, and we better realize that. The elephants or donkeys are not what younger people look to. They look at individual candidates' philosophy, and I think it's a different time and a different generation.
Richard M. Daley
#21. Then Samson said. With a donkeys jawbone I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey's jawbone I have killed a thousand of them.
Anonymous
#22. It amazes me how well the majority of jump jockeys ride in a race until they've landed over the last, then how badly most of them ride a finish. Apart from a half-dozen, they look like coster boys sitting on top of donkeys' behinds, bashing about with shillelaghs.
Jack Leach
#23. Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game.
Oriana Fallaci
#24. Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul.
Richard Aldington
#26. Some men would rather break their donkeys back, than give them the carrot they both require to progress.
R.P. Falconer
#27. A man would rather break his donkeys back than give it the carrot it requires to progress.
R.P. Falconer
#28. Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.
George Orwell
#29. All bodies are radiant but not all radiance is visible: stars radiate visible light; planets and donkeys and couches radiate infrared waves. (If your couch is emitting visible light GET UP IMMEDIATELY!)
Amy Leach
#30. All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.
Peter Shaffer
#31. Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
#32. Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.
Idries Shah
#33. There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.
Emma Thompson
#34. Granted, God is sovereign and can speak as he pleases - through a proof text, a poem, or Balaam's donkey. But we do not regularly seek out donkeys to tell us how to live.
Craig S. Keener
#35. There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.
Martial
#36. What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.
Carlo Collodi
#37. I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding.
Jo Brand
#38. When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.
Mitt Romney
#39. We'de have to get in and get out the hard way; and if we made a mistake, there was no telling what sort of curse we'de unleash: monster guardians, plagues, fires, exploding donkeys(don't laugh; they're bad news).
Rick Riordan
#40. There is a role for carrots and sticks, but to rely on carrots and sticks alone is effective only when we employ donkeys and we are sure exactly what we want the donkeys to do.
John Kay
#41. My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didn't grow up wanting to draw donkeys and elephants with the names of politicians written across them.
Tom Tomorrow
#43. malachim, or messengers. Christianity has defined these messengers as what we know as angels. The more ancient interpretation in Judaism is that the malachim could be anything. They could be heavenly spirits. Or not. They could come in the form of ordinary people, donkeys, a flame, or even a breeze.
Stephen Tobolowsky
#44. Maybe you can talk to donkeys, too," Dr. Milligan smiles. Emma nods. "I can sometimes Galen can be a jackass."
"That hurts my feelings, Emma," Galen says, trying to look hurt.
Anna Banks
#45. Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.
Jon Katz
#47. What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carried only by stupid animals, by camels, mules, and donkeys; the back of an intelligent person is flat!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#48. There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
Martial
#49. Have you ever seen a donkey smelling a beautiful rose? Donkeys aren't interested in roses, they like thorn bushes or watermelon rinds!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#50. One of the coolest things to me about going to a show is you look over, and the guy next to you is sitting there drinking a beer and he's wearing a Donkeys t-shirt. And you're like, "Dude, I love The Donkeys."
Craig Finn
#51. You can't say asses in church unless you are speaking of donkeys.
Allan Dare Pearce
#53. Memory in its ordinary way summoned harvested fields, and haycocks and autumn hedges, the first of the fuchsia, the last of the wild sweetpea. It brought the lowing of cattle, old donkeys resting, scampering dogs, and days and places.
William Trevor
#54. Knowledge is like the carrot, few know by looking at the green top that the best part, the orange part, is there. Like the carrot, if you don't work for it, it will wither away and rot. And finally, like the carrot, there are a great many donkeys and jackasses that are associated with it.
Nasreddin
#55. Only the donkey knows how weary it feels, all God cares about are humans, and not all humans, because some of them live like donkeys or worse, and God makes no effort to help them.
Jose Saramago
#56. With the sun rising on the distant sea horizon, she could almost forget the braying of the donkeys.
Alexandra Brenton
#57. Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.
Idries Shah
#58. Sergeant Missouri crouched close to the ground, pulling up his collar against the bitter, gusting winds. Show me, he thought tiredly, I'm from Missouri.
Maureen Daly
#59. I may be a donkey but I can kick the wrong people.
Amit Abraham
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