Lion Quotes
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No, the Scriptures were not given to us to confuse us but rather to instruct us. Certainly God intends that we should believe His Word with all simplicity. A thousand years means a thousand years; a wolf means a wolf; a lion means a lion. If you read your Bible that way, a child can understand it.
M. R. DeHaan
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I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
John Steinbeck
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By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man … Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocracies, have at times thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage like a lion.
John Adams
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After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions.
Bert Lahr
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You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.
Honore de Balzac
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I love taking challenges, as my name Leander means 'lion's heart.'
Leander Paes
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If you take a look at our natural history, there's always a moment where the young lion wants to challenge the older lion and, inherently, that's going to be problematic, and I don't think we're any different.
Kiefer Sutherland
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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
George Bernard Shaw
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Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Charles de Gaulle
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The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I believe in the British lion and I believe that the British character is lion-hearted, and I believe that it has not been lion-hearted in some of the post-War period, and I want it to get back to being lion hearted.
Margaret Thatcher
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I'm a lion. I'm not tough, but I am strong. I'm definitely not a wallflower.
Cressida Bonas
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If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.
William Blake
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'But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like?' 'Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of fold as'd like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is.'
Philip Pullman
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I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it.
C. S. Lewis
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I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
Ernest Shackleton
