Lions Quotes

• Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Children
  • Stories
  • Lion

• I know I look like a piece of sausage to those lions. A sausage with braids.

  

  Cody Lundin
  • Look Like
  • Sausage
  • Braids

• The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Citizens
  • Cracks

• If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?

  

  Tertullian
  • Christians
  • Famine
  • Sy

• You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

  

  Isak Dinesen
  • Living
  • Alive
  • Lions

• They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Voice
  • Monsters
  • Hares

• Imaginatively challenged folks, for whom crossing a state line amounted to foreign travel, could not conceive that the gray-blue-eyes inspecting them had, over the past year, similarly scrutinized Nandi warriors, Arab mullahs, Magyar landowners, French marshals, Prussian academics, and practically every monarch or minister of consequence in Europe--not to mention the maquettes in Rodin's studio, and whatever dark truths flickered in the gaze of dying lions.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Travel
  • Truths
  • Folks

• Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Answers
  • Honey
  • Riddle

• If you want to be a lion, you must train with lions.

  

  Carlson Gracie
  • Want
  • Train
  • Lions

• I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Behinds
  • Employment
  • Meals

• The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Die
  • Lions

• The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.

  

  William Blake
  • Sea
  • Eternity
  • Eye Of Man

• Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Lions
  • Prologue

• We live in a world where you're not being eaten by a lion when you fail, you just have to get another job.

  

  Michael Arrington
  • World
  • Jobs
  • Failing

• Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Matter
  • Instinct
  • Coward

• Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!

  

  Charlie Flynn
  • Sound
  • Lions
  • Ants

• Until you win a series, it's difficult to place yourself in that elite group of great Lions players. It's not enough to produce one-off performances or be nearly-men.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Win
  • Players
  • Series

• You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Eternity
  • Explain
  • Lions

• You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Share
  • Jokes
  • Kings

• While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Balance
  • Cutting
  • Speech

• A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Bottom
  • Ladies
  • Lions

• His enemies had counted on the lions taking care of Daniel. What they hadn't counted on was his God taking care of Daniel.

  

  Tony Evans
  • Christian
  • Care
  • Enemy

• If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.

  

  Thomas More
  • Men
  • Hard
  • Lions

• In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Animal
  • Dog
  • Actors

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