Quotes About Zebras

#1. I can give or take elephants; I never can find the cheetah-but the zebras captivate me. They'd be one of the few things that would fit if we were lucky enough to live in a world that's black or white.

Jodi Picoult

#2. 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

#3. Terrorists are like zebras; those having more white stripes than black are good terrorists,those with more black stripes than white are bad ones.

Shahid Hussain Raja

#4. That had to be the answer. When you heard hoofbeats, you didn't think zebras.

Stephen King

#5. Lieutenant-Colonel Yorke told me you Torchwood people always take the extreme view. We have a saying in basic training: "If you hear hoof-beats, you look for horses, and not zebras".'

'You don't know the half of it,' Gwen said. 'In my job, if I hear hoof-beats, I expect to see unicorns.

Peter Anghelides

#6. It was an unfortunate coincidence that despite the new television set's perfect rendition of color the first show that came on was all about zebras.

Anonymous

#7. Zebras dream of polka-dots

Phil Caruso

#8. Zebras don't change their stripes, and war criminals don't repent.

Jodi Picoult

#9. People don't look for complications. You hear hoofbeats, you look for horses, not zebras.

Lee Child

#10. Levi always said if you heard hoofbeats, expect to see horses, not zebras.

Kristan Higgins

#11. They [zebras] looked like highly varnished animated toys.

Elspeth Huxley

#12. And I suspect, Mr. Potter, that if I leave you alone for two months with your schoolbooks, even without a wand, I will return to this house only to find a crater billowing purple smoke, a depopulated city surrounding it and a plague of flaming zebras terrorising what remains of England.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#13. For example, the main reason zebras never got domesticated is that they're ultra-high-fear. Zebras may bite people and not let go. They injure more people in zoos than the tigers do.15

Temple Grandin

#14. Maybe our best family trip started at Victoria Falls, which drenches you with spray and is so vast that it makes Niagara Falls seem like a backyard creek. Then we rented a car and made our way to Hwange National Park, which was empty of people but crowded with zebras, giraffes, elephants and more.

Nicholas Kristof

#15. When they hear hooves they look for zebras instead of horses

Christopher Brookmyre

#16. When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses--not zebras.' In other words, most things are exactly what they seem, and the simplest answer is usually the right one.

Judy Melinek

#17. Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.

Jimi Hendrix

#18. I'm saying let's go see if we can find some horses or zebras before we start a unicorn hunt.

James S.A. Corey

#19. Zebra babies can flat-out run within an hour of being born, because if they can't, they're dead. We were like zebras, so poor we didn't know how poor we were, and tough and independent because there wasn't any other way to be.

Willie Parker

#20. Anything was possible. When you hear hooves you look for horses, but you can't discount zebras.

Paula Hawkins

#21. ...but now that I know it's possible for a couple of zebras to outsmart a crocodile, life is starting to look up" -Joe

Sarah Weeks

#22. In my experience nobody gets to lead a totally charmed existence. Nobody escapes the pitfalls of being a human being. It's what seperates us from the zebras. Or that's my theory anyway

Sarah-Kate Lynch

#23. When one hears hoofbeats, medical students are taught, one must think of horses, not zebras. But the doctor who sees my blood count will surely think of horses. He will arrive at a perfectly logical conclusion. It will no occur to him that, this time, it is truly a zebra galloping by.

Tess Gerritsen

#24. Hey whatever puts you in a good mood is fine by me. For all I care, monkeys could have danced around your classroom all hour if it made you happy."
"Don't be so dramatic Jackson. I would much rather it is zebras," I replied with a chuckle.
Jackson and Noel, Dancing with Death

Andrea Heltsley

#25. My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

Robin McKinley

#26. Ria snorted. Leo's pride rarely leaves the plains. What are they
supposed to mate? The zebras?

Lora Leigh

#27. Has it ever struck you as odd that humans are the only creatures on the planet who wear clothes? Everything else, from aardvarks to zebras, is running around in its birthday suit, blissfully unclear of the concept of underpants. Why don't people do the same?

Linda Bender

#28. My scars were reflecting the mist in your headlights I looked like a neon zebra, shaking rain off her stripes

Fiona Apple

#29. Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!

Ogden Nash

#30. A Polish man bought a zebra for a pet. What does he call the zebra? Spot!

Henny Youngman

#31. A zebra can not change it's spots.

Al Gore

#32. I secretly want to be a zebra. That is why I always wear stripes.

Louis Tomlinson

#33. In the world of animation, you can be anything you wanna be. If you're a fat woman, you can play a skinny princess. If you're short wimpy guy, you can play a tall gladiator. If you're a white man, you can play an Arabian prince. And if you're a black man, you can play a donkey or a zebra.

Chris Rock

#34. Most of us are animal lovers. We insist that we love all animals equally - the hamster, the weasel, and the zebra - but if pressed, we will admit to being either a cat person or a dog person.

Nicole Hollander

#35. Scientists think they can now clone an all-white zebra. Now, I'm no expert, but isn't that a horse?

Jay Leno

#36. How fast does a zebra have to run before it looks gray.

Demetri Martin

#37. There is more difference between a zebra and a horse, or between a dolphin and a porpoise, than there is between you and the furry creatures your distant ancestors left behind when they set out to take over the world.

Bill Bryson

#38. It's a wonder you don't see the zebra being trotted out as a metaphor for racial harmony more often.

Dov Davidoff

#39. Give me a black man, a white woman, a giraffe, a zebra anything but another white man! That last one f***ed up my roof!

Chris Rock

#40. Pulling off a zebra-print dress can be challenging for some.

Iman Abdulmajid