Top 100 Quotes About Lions
#2. One day his mom, Rhea, came to visit on her chariot pulled by lions.
'Zeus,' she said, 'you need a summer job.
Rick Riordan
#3. Men were trying to kill him, lions and tigers lived next door, his wife was on the warpath, and his son had brought home a man he loved. When
Abigail Roux
#4. [On lions:] It has always seemed miraculous to me that these colossal animals can move noiselessly through the bush, and are thus able to surround one without warning.
Joy Adamson
#5. What did they feed the lions and tigers with in the ark, sir?
Terry Pratchett
#6. Until lions start writing down their own stories, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter. - AFRICAN PROVERB
Ellen Bass
#7. It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization.
Barry Sanders
#8. Cole's interest was a tell. He wasn't expressing casual curiosity. He was all business, and carried himself like a man with a need to know. Scott didn't like the way Cole's friends were staring, like a couple of lions waiting to pounce. "I'd rather speak alone." "We're good." Cole
Robert Crais
#10. Lions and other carnivorous animals do eat meat, but that doesn't mean we should. They would die if they didn't eat meat. Human beings, in contrast, choose to eat meat; it isn't a physiological necessity.
Sharon Gannon
#11. There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things ...
William Henry Hudson
#12. Do you know the quality all lions possess, above all else?" "No." I shake my head. "Loyalty," he says, smiling and showing me that adorable gap in his teeth. No matter how far apart we are. No matter the distance or time, I will never love anyone except you. Not ever.
Mia Sheridan
#13. I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
Barry Sanders
#14. Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.
John Gay
#15. I sat with my toes buried in the warm yellow sand staring out towards the back door of The East. Pacific Ocean Blue was playing in the background and it had left me in a state of Bohemia as the waves crashed ashore; roaring as loud as lions.
David Louden
#16. Not a very regal send-off for a prince." I laughed as the lions retreated into the bush again.
"That was me and Goma when I was little," said Jack, starting the car. "I was always chasing something, and she was always pulling me back.
Leylah Attar
#17. Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.
Laurence J. Peter
#18. Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#19. When lions fight over a goat, it's usually the hyena that gets away with the prize.
Ashwin Sanghi
#20. The game we are playing her is closest to the old game of 'Christians and lions.'
Robert Crandall
#21. I have done everything I have ever wanted to do. I have swum with tiger sharks, been charged by lions and elephants. I have been shot three times, chased by crocodiles and, God be praised, I've made enough money that I can continue to do all the things I want to for as long as I am able.
Wilbur Smith
#22. The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible to the devil.
Saint John Chrysostom
#23. Once coach I felt really connected with was Lions coach Jim Schwartz. I told him I didn't want to leave the meeting because I liked talking to him. He was very genuine.
Rahim Moore
#24. Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!
Saint John Chrysostom
#25. Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV.
Tom Shales
#26. Your greatest regret at the end of your life will be the lions you didn't chase. You will look back longingly on risks not taken, opportunities not seized, and dreams not pursued. Stop running away from what scares you most and start chasing the God-ordained opportunities that cross your path.
Mark Batterson
#27. I had asked her for help, and she had sent me to the lions. I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.
Laura Whitcomb
#28. Lions aren't used to other creatures staring them down. It's a good tactic for life too; even if you're terrified inside, stare it in the eye.
Boyd Varty
#29. We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death.
Chuck Palahniuk
#30. My circus train pulls through the night
Full of lions and trapeze artists
I'm done with elephants and clowns
I want to run away and join the office
Mike Doughty
#31. If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.
Xenophanes
#33. For most of human history, we appear to have lived in tribes of seventy-five to 150 people. Those who could not handle the complexity of the relationships would go off on their own. Lions need to eat, after all. Today
Randy J. Paterson
#34. There aren't any lions in England," Lenina almost snapped.
"And even if there were," the Savage added, with sudden contemptuous resentment, "people would kill them out of helicopters, I suppose, with poison gas or something.
Aldous Huxley
#35. Try and Try Again
Until Lambs become Lions.
Robinhood
#36. There are no compacts between Lions and Men: and Wolves and lambs have no concord.- Homer
Rick Royster
#37. Poor people have access to the courts in the same sense that Christians had access to the lions.
Earl Johnson
#38. To learn how to swim, observe fish.
To learn how to hunt, observe lions.
To learn how to work, observe bees.
To learn how to live, observe sages.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#39. Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.
Hal Sparks
#40. A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.
George Washington
#41. I am afraid if there is anything to be afraid of. A precipice cannot hurt you. Lions and tigers can. The streets of New York I consider more dangerous than the Matterhorn to a thoroughly competent and careful climber.
Annie Smith Peck
#42. In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#43. There are some laws of nature you just know. You don't go poking lions with sticks.
Talia Vance
#44. Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.
Norman Vincent Peale
#45. We are Lions of Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, then why should we fear the world. We have to become Brave, Bold and Ekantik.
N.a.
#46. She was through the doors before I recognized her, which was pardonable, for Holly and libraries were not an easy association to make. I let curiosity guide me between the lions, debating on the way whether I should admit following her or pretend coincidence.
Truman Capote
#47. If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.
Marlon Wayans
#48. I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.
J. B. Smoove
#50. Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant.
David Attenborough
#51. To say I have played through four World Cups, two Lions tours, 91 international games and a ridiculous number of injuries and other setbacks gives me an incredibly special feeling of fulfilment. I know myself well enough to know that I will never truly be satisfied.
Jonny Wilkinson
#52. Cautious as a camera-man engaged in shooting a family of fourteen lions
Stella Gibbons
#53. The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule.
-chant from a children's game heard in Great Arvalon, the Fourth Age
Robert Jordan
#54. There are celebrated literary lions who've won Pulitzers and Booker prizes for ideas that Dick would toss aside in an early chapter, but ... oh, what's the use. You evidently already know the score, because you're reading this.
Philip K. Dick
#55. My Faith is in the Younger Generation, the Modern Generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like Lions.
Swami Vivekananda
#56. I am now an old lioness, if I see my young ones getting out of order, I've got to be able to say to them this is not how lions behave. This is not right.
Joanna Lumley
#57. Naked lions are just as dangerous as elegantly dressed ones
Susan Cain
#58. Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.
Charles Dickens
#59. I don't know who first said it, but this proverb is something I believe: A lion leading a lot of sheep can defeat a sheep leading many lions. The important part is that I must decide when I am a lion and when I must be a sheep. I don't believe you are always one or the other.
Yao Ming
#60. Just imagine how difficult it would've been to create churches, states or laws, if we could only speak about things that really exist, like lions or rivers
Yuval Noah Harari
#61. No, Your Grace. At the end a dragon hatches from an egg and devours all of the lions.
George R R Martin
#62. I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Alexander The Great
#63. By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.
Rob Zombie
#64. It was a mystery to me. To that awful black-and-white farm, with that aunt who was dressed badly, with smelly farm animals around when she could live with winged monkeys and magic shoes and gay lions. I didn't get it.
John Waters
#66. Oh, no, I love going into a pen of lions wearing a sign that says Edible Lamb.
Manfred
Charlaine Harris
#67. The Lord will give His righteous servants opportunities to be bold as lions when they speak in His name and as witnesses in His priesthood.
Henry B. Eyring
#68. After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions.
Bert Lahr
#69. Chaotic Of Echoes The Lands Darkest Hours Of Lions
Architect the Garlots of War The Precognitions
Philippa Ballantine
#70. You can't find an uglier urban environment than the centre of Hollywood, but then you go to Griffith Park, you go to the beach, you go to the mountains, and it's rural. I live up in the Hollywood Hills and I have frogs, owls, coyotes, mountain lions - but I'm ten minutes from the centre of the city.
Moby
#71. -the phrase "lion's share" here means "the biggest part" and has nothing to do with lions or sharing-
Lemony Snicket
#72. This is a time for beasts, Jaime reflected, for lions and wolves and angry dogs, for ravens and carrion crows.
George R R Martin
#73. The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
[Lat., In tauros Libyci ruunt leones;
Non sunt papilionibus molesti.]
Martial
#74. The lions are now lunching with the lambs.
Alyson Noel
#75. Goodness is not the absence of badness. You can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right. Those who simply run away from sin are half-Christians. Our calling is much higher than simply running away from what's wrong. We're called to chase lions.
Mark Batterson
#76. I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
#77. They told us if they kill all the lions the wildlife will disappear, so now those who become warriors are those with higher education, not those who kill lions.
Malala Yousafzai
#78. You Americans. You suppress the body of its desires, and treat the heart as if it is a wild animal to be tamed, so that when those things are awakened in you , they have the strength of ravenous lions, too long imprisoned.
Louisa Edwards
#79. The great white lions from the steps of the Public Library leaped together and threw themselves upon the iron steed and its dark rider. For
Diane Duane
#80. I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.
Barry Sanders
#81. The safari was amazing, to actually see the elephants and the Lions up close and then right at the end to actually get in the cage with the Lion was one of the best moments of the tour.
Ugo Monye
#84. Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.
Barbara Kingsolver
#85. Did you found something? asked she with hope.
Yes, this until ...
Until what ... ?
Until you stick your breasts on my back.And you realize that now I can't think about lions anymore!
C.C. Hunter
#86. A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.
Edward Abbey
#87. Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
Dan Phillips
#88. There is something really mysterious about lions. They could rip you apart if they wanted to, but at the same time they look so cuddly. Can you imagine what humans look like to animals? They must think we're so weird.
Lee Ryan
#89. A good hunter did not rush into a den of lions unprepared, and Dante was a very good hunter.
Elizabeth Elliott
#90. Well, it's a lot less dangerous - working with snakes and mountaibn lions and dangerous animals - than working in Hollywood [laughs]. Hollwood will kill you.
Bernie Krause
#91. Most of my life is in the past.
There goes some more of it.
I taught my sheep how to fight lions
so I would have more time
Chad Sweeney
#92. Military commanders choose to overlook the Kenyan proverb that proclaims the power of the flea--"A flea can trouble a lion more than the lion can harm a flea." Most generals would rather be lions than fleas.
William R. Polk
#94. Ally may be Evan's by law, but she's mine by nature. And in a battle between lions, no one gives a fuck about what's lawful.
S.L. Jennings
#95. I have always liked lionesses. Female lions have always seemed like the best. They were really strong and took care of their babies and are beautiful.
Brooke Shields
#96. People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.
Georgette Heyer
#98. Lions are born knowing they are predators. Antelopes understand they are the prey.
Humans are one of the few creatures on Earth given the choice.
Patrick H.T. Doyle
#99. Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a wall, senseless. At one time a dog, at another time a carcass, how will you run with lions, or follow the saints?
Rumi
#100. As if Riley and Amelia were lions, and we were a menage a trois of lively, prancing deer.
Jaclyn Moriarty
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