Lion Quotes

• ...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Fall
  • Lion

• Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • May
  • Faith
  • Prayer

• De la peau du lion l'âne s'étant vêtu,Était craint partout à la ronde.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine
  • Lion

• Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Life
  • Small
  • Mad

• My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. I essentially called my mother, The Lion. She's fierce and she's proud. I'd like to think some of that rubbed off on me.

  

  Christopher Judge
  • She
  • Mother
  • Proud

• The safari was amazing, to actually see the elephants and the Lions up close and then right at the end to actually get in the cage with the Lion was one of the best moments of the tour.

  

  Ugo Monye
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Moments

• Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he is neither a lamb nor a lion. These are fiction. Metaphors. Yet the Creator is both a lamb and a lion. These are both truths.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Facts
  • Fiction
  • Creator

• A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.

  

  Frans Lanting
  • Different
  • Society
  • Lion

• I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.

  

  Peter Beard
  • Lion
  • Elephant

• A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves. Those who act simply as lions are stupid. So it follows that a prudent ruler cannot, and must not, honour his word when it places him at a disadvantage and when the reasons for which he made his promise no longer exist.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Learn
  • Price
  • Fox

• I've loved musicals ever since I saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway.

  

  Mark Indelicato
  • King
  • Lion

• The great gold planet that is the mourning heat of the SunIs greater than all gold, more powerfulThan the tawny body of a Lion that fire consumesLike all that grows or leaps... so is the heartMore powerful than all dust.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Great
  • Powerful
  • Fire

• Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Great
  • Men

• The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.

  

  John Hanning Speke
  • Lion

• I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

  

  Alexander the Great
  • Army
  • Afraid
  • Lion

• The holder of authority is like the rider on a lion - he is envied for his position, but he well knows his position.

  

  Ali ibn Abi Talib
  • Lion

• The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Protect
  • Lion
  • Traps

• Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Dying

• What good is having the heart of a lion if you cannot roar?

  

  Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Heart
  • Lion
  • Roar

• There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • Money
  • Support
  • Health

• For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • People
  • Dog
  • Lion

• People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • People
  • Scary
  • Laughing

• The lion's share of the damage to the Irish economy was the fault of domestic, economic, and financial mismanagement.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • Financial
  • Irish
  • Lion

• When I got the first e-mail suggesting we cast Zooey Deschanel in 'New Girl', I thought, 'That's exactly right.' In the pilot of 'Modern Family', when Cam is holding up the baby with the 'Lion King' theme, it was very clear we had something special.

  

  Dana Walden
  • Up
  • Family
  • Girl

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