Elephant Quotes
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Elephant Quotes & Sayings
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I am not an animal! I am a human being! I ... am ... a man!
— Joseph Merrick
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
— Madeleine Albright
The elephant smoked too much.
— Victor Borge
You need to think about the month, you need to plan the day, you need to take your elephant and divide into pieces and eat a slice a day
— Sunday Adelaja
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
— Seth MacFarlane
It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex.
— Morgan Matson
Min hadn't just played the "friend" card - she'd dressed it up in all kinds of cool Batman imagery. Gunnar and I were powerless to resist.
— Brent Hartinger
An elephant overcome obstacles and barriers, and crush whatever standing in his path, obstacles and barriers, in the name of Jesus, clear-off.
— Ademola Adejumo
Dear God. Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses to take care of.
— Sara Gruen
Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.
— Margaret Atwood
We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.
— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
In the wild, a mother elephant and her daughter will stay together until one or the other dies.
— Jodi Picoult
You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.
— Mary Kay Ash
May an elephant caress you with his toes
— 'Little' Jimmy Dickens
May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes, may your wife be plagued with runners in her hose.
— 'Little' Jimmy Dickens
In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.
— Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
Do you have any idea how much an elephant drinks?
— Sara Gruen
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
— Jackie Kennedy
What ever happened to freak shows? Back in the twenties when elephant man was born at least he had a job waiting for him.
— Doug Stanhope
Generally speaking, we are w-a-y too hard on ourselves!
I used to place enough pressure on myself to crush an elephant! — Daniel Petra
I used to place enough pressure on myself to crush an elephant! — Daniel Petra
Have you ever been bitten by an elephant? How about a mosquito? It's the little things in life that will bite you.
— Darren Hardy
Took myself to Byculla. The area around the elephants is very soothing. I wish I were an elephant. I would be so composed.
— Jerry Pinto
I have a face like the behind of an elephant.
— Charles Laughton
You can eat an elephant if you do it one bite at a time.
— Robert Christopher Riley
In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
— John Owen
I looked down at the brochure nearest me."We're going to Nigeria," I threatened. "I hope you like elephant polo."
-Liberty Jones — Lisa Kleypas
-Liberty Jones — Lisa Kleypas
Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.
— Mira Nair
He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.
— Randolph Bourne
Don't try to eat an elephant for lunch.
— Chris Bradford
Better it is to live alone; there is no fellowship with a fool. Live alone and do no evil; be carefree like an elephant in the elephant forest.
— Gautama Buddha
I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Ella is nervous," the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. "The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella.
— Rick Riordan
The lion's blessing is in his strength; the monkey's blessing is in his cunning; and the elephant's blessing is in his might.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If the world can no longer afford the luxury of natural beauty, then it will soon be overcome and destroyed by its own ugliness.
— Romain Gary
Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously.
— Stephen E. Ambrose
A mouse is the size of a mouse for a good reason, and a mouse that was the size of an elephant wouldn't do very well.
— Michael Pollan
If you're gonna shoot an elephant Mr. Schneider, you better be prepared to finish the job.
— Gary Larson
The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.
— Shane Claiborne
The Elephant Man claimed his head was big because, it's so full of dreams. Actually, it's because his skull was shaped like a turkey.
— Dana Gould
And that is the real elephant in the room. The monkey in my wrench. The worm in my candy bar ...
— J. Kenner
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
— Samuel Richardson
I first got involved with Mel Brooks through 'The Elephant Man.' Everybody knows now, but they didn't know at the time that he was the producer.
— John Hurt
Goliath always has a weakness; an ant is small but can defeat an elephant.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Ego is like a mad elephant which is ridden by our blind heart and blind mind and which ultimately destroys our real selves
— Kapil Kumar Bhaskar
I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.
— Anthony Hopkins
But perhaps you do not understand. I was crippled, crippled by an elephant that came through the roof - Madam LaVaughn
— Kate DiCamillo
When an elephant walks, it kills many small creatures; when we walk, we kill many small creatures; we are all random killers!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?
— David Brin
They can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What does that even mean?
— Adam Rex
If you want to live longer and to be strong, intelligent, loving, and kind--then don't follow a tiger. Follow an elephant.
— Debasish Mridha
I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.'
— Enrico Fermi
Daemon was the pissy pink elephant in the room with a bad attitude.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
If its about the existence of god, you may as well ask me, what the square root of an elephant is?
— Steve Merrick
She uttered a sound rather like an elephant taking its foot out of a mud hole in a Burmese teak forest.
— P.G. Wodehouse
I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it's going to be my friend.
— Dianna Agron
Great steaming elephant turds!
— Terry Pratchett
The elephant in the room has always been simulator sickness and disorientation. That's one of the biggest challenges.
— Brendan Iribe
Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.
— Henry David Thoreau
Aunt Agatha is like an elephant- not so much to look at, for in appearance she resembles more a well-bred vulture, but because she never forgets.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Lou had a memory like an elephant; it took a lot to cause her to hold a grudge, but once she achieved it, it was even harder for her to let go.
— Robyn Carr
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
When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
The elephant, the huge old beast,
is slow to mate — D.H. Lawrence
is slow to mate — D.H. Lawrence
Hopeless. Freak. Elephant. Pitiful
— Donna Cooner
The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.
— Jonathan Haidt
You see, you need to make sure you compare yourself to the right person. An elephant passes tons of waste but will never run as fast as the rabbit.
— Raghavan Rajendran
Animosity killed the elephant.
— Kevin Dalton
Not every ant which stays under the elephant's foot dies; the most powerful cannot always kill the weakest!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
elephant's trumpeting
— Rudyard Kipling
Why should a real chair be better than an imaginary elephant?
— Virginia Woolf
Now, I whispered. Boom! boom! boom! went the three heavy rifles, and down came Sir Henry's elephant dead as a hammer, shot right through the heart.
— H. Rider Haggard
Writing a book is like washing an elephant. You don't know from where you should start and where you should end.
— Yashvardhan Shukla
I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.
— Jesse Ball
It does not matter if you vote for the left or right, you are not an elephant or donkey. You are a truthful lion who stands only for your conscience.
— Suzy Kassem
You can own an elephant or a bank or power thereof but if there's no personal breast bliss all you own is a lot of dead atoms and ideas.
— Allen Ginsberg
Miracle means; when a South Asian Woman does not turn into an elephant after marriage.
— M.F. Moonzajer