Water For Elephants Quotes

#1. I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

Sara Gruen

#2. I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three dollars and a bottle of Canadian whiskey to the man who puts on the best show. You've never seen such grief
even the dogs were howling.

Sara Gruen

#3. When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

Sara Gruen

#4. Outnumbered! Ya'll are always the hell outnumbered! - Marek, Gunship

J.J. Snow

#5. It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty.

Chanakya

#6. I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.

David Crosby

#7. I don't know anything about science.

Rachel Weisz

#8. Age is terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back

Sara Gruen

#9. The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.

Sara Gruen

#10. I have a fairly normal domestic life.

Peter Capaldi

#11. Text of Sermon when Edward III ascended the throne, 1 Feb. 1327. Walsingham Vox Populi, vox Dei. The voice of the people, the voice of God.

Walter Reynolds

#12. Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?

Dr. Seuss

#13. The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.

Pope Gregory I

#14. Life goes on with fragile normalcy.

Sara Gruen

#15. If traditional doesn't work, then traditions won't do.

Max McKeown

#16. I wanted to change the world, now I hope the world doesn't change me.

Ray Mileur

#17. It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.

Lois Wyse

#18. In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy ... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

Harlan Ellison

#19. One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

William McFee

#20. You do right by me, I'll show you a life most suckers can't even dream of.

Sara Gruen

#21. When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have made the difference. The reward will go to those who dared to step outside the safety of their privacy in order to expose and rout the prevailing prejudices.

John Shelby Spong

#22. Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.

John Spence

#23. At the bat of your lashes peacocks preen. Peacocks preen, elephants remember, camels go for days without water, and dinosaurs of all types become extinct.

Tom Robbins

#24. The Rwandan policy of putting the genocide behind them is incredibly effective in many ways. But it's also incredibly frightening to think that this nation is being asked put this mass slaughter behind them.

Dinaw Mengestu

#25. I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.

Jessica Alba