Elephant Quotes

• 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

• It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Elephant

• In shape they were like horrible toads, and moved in a succession of springs, but in size they were of an incredible bulk, larger than the largest elephant. We had never before seen them save at night, and indeed they are nocturnal animals save when disturbed in their lairs, as these had been. We now stood amazed at the sight, for their blotched and warty skins were of a curious fish-like iridescence, and the sunlight struck them with an ever-varying rainbow bloom as they moved.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Spring
  • Succession
  • Bulk

• A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Method
  • Elephant
  • Sculpting

• 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 saw David Lynch's 'The Elephant Man' when I was 15. I was completely bowled over. I found it so beautiful, strange and mesmerizing that I went back to the cinema every night for a week to see it.

  

  Ben Daniels
  • Beautiful
  • Night
  • Elephant

• It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat.

  

  Arthur Mutambara
  • Own
  • Elephant
  • Rat

• Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Hope
  • Doubt
  • Depression

• As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.

  

  Jim Starlin
  • Food
  • Elephant

• We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.

  

  Colin Mochrie
  • Nature
  • Elephant

• I was so used to documentary filming, where it's one take. You can't really say, 'Make that elephant charge again!' And you talk to the camera. With movie filming, you're talking to someone else.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Movie
  • Elephant

• Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse to elephant.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • 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

• If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Progress
  • Elephant
  • Good Companion

• 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

• Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Life
  • Money
  • Small

• The band at the far end of the hall, amplified to the din of an elephant charge, smashed and hewed at the tune as though in a holy war against silence.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • War
  • Band
  • Silence

• God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.

  

  Max Lucado
  • God
  • Elephant

• That don't look good," Kramisha said. "Not good at all." She paused and then her eyes went from me to Heath, whose attention was so focused on me I swear he didn't look like he would notice if a giant white elephant in a tutu danced around the room. "Ain't that the human kid who was down here before?

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Good
  • She
  • Attention

• Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Birthday
  • Elephant
  • Borrow

• If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Elephant

• You know...they say an elephant never forgets. What they don't tell you is, you never forget an elephant.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Elephant
  • Never Forgets

• An agile, well-trained, brave elephant, ridden by a good mahout, its trunk armed with the kind of sabre known as a qartal and covered with chain mail, while the rest of its body is protected by sheets of bark and iron, surrounded by 500 men to defend it and protect it to the rear, can fight against 6000 men on horseback.

  

  Al-Masudi
  • Men
  • Fight
  • Elephant

• The night before 'The Elephant Man' opened, we had a sleepover for 12 kids. Being organized is the key.

  

  Scott Ellis
  • Kids
  • Key
  • Before

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