Elephant Quotes

• Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff and touch it. With their unparalleled sense of smell, the animals know exactly what they are going for. Vision is secondary.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • Food
  • Hand
  • Vision

• For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.

  

  Adrian Belew
  • Live
  • Song
  • Elephant

• Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.

  

  Audrey Meadows
  • Elephant

• I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • School
  • Elephant

• The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Food
  • Elephant
  • Indication

• It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I couldn't put a finger on an exact date, and this routine relates simply to the aphorism 'How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.'

  

  Neal Asher
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Elephant

• An elephant funeral makes me weep every time, and so does an ad with a kid leaving home for college.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • Time
  • Home
  • College

• On the 15th of May, in the Jungle of Nool, In the heat of the day, in the cool of the pool, He was splashing... enjoying the jungle's great joys... When Horton the elephant heard a small noise.

  

  Dr. Seuss
  • Great
  • May
  • Small

• Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

  

  Pierre Trudeau
  • Elephant

• When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

  

  Creighton Abrams
  • Time
  • Elephant

• I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Work
  • Elephant

• It's nice to have an elephant in the room. There's nothing more helpful than something everybody's thinking about.

  

  Seth Meyers
  • Thinking
  • Room
  • Elephant

• The elephant which supports the world is called Muha-pudma, and the the tortoise which supports the elephant is called Chukwa. In some of the Eastern mythologies we are told that the world stands on the backs of eight elephants, called Achtequed-jams.

  

  E. Cobham Brewer
  • World
  • Support
  • Eight

• The letters Z, O and O dominate the front entrance gates of a capital city zoo. They are made of glass and they tower up two giraffes high. They are the width of one elephant and the colour of bottled blue ink.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Up
  • High
  • City

• Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.

  

  Lyall Watson
  • Live
  • Elephant

• I showed the grown ups my masterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Picture
  • Drawing
  • Scared

• Their version of rock-paper-scissors was elephant - fist, mouse - palm, and ant - little finger. The elephant crushed the mouse, the mouse squashed the ant, and the ant crawled up the elephant’s trunk and paralyzed his brain.

  

  Colin Cotterill
  • Version
  • Mouse
  • Ant

• 'My friends!', cried the elephant. 'Tell me! Do tell! Are you safe? Are you sound? Are you whole? Are you well?'

  

  Dr. Seuss
  • Friends
  • Elephant

• Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.

  

  Chris Noth
  • People
  • Home
  • Cutting

• I always think I look like the Elephant Man - I can't get used to my own image.

  

  Brian Cox
  • Elephant

• It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Mankind
  • Kill
  • Volume

• I'm like an elephant, ok? If I walk into a room, it's like, OK, he's in there.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Room
  • Elephant

• I imagine the film ["300"] as if I was a Spartan and I had never seen an immortal or a Persian, or an elephant or a rhino for that matter.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Elephant
  • Spartan

• As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Elephant
  • Englishman
  • Legislate

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