Top 255 Elephants Quotes & Sayings

I've worked with PETA on freeing elephants from the circus.

It happened while I was filming “Water for Elephants in which my partner is Reese Witherspoon. We had a scene with elephants but there were so many paparazzi around that it was scaring the animals and it was impossible to film. Out of the blue, fans, that were waiting for autographs, had enough and circled around the paparazzi. Teens made big guys run away. It was unreal! I was pleased.

Elephants are my favourite creatures and have been since I was a boy and my mother read Kipling's The Elephant's Child to me. It was loving elephants so much that made we want to write my own story with an elephant at the centre and its bond with a child.

Women and elephants never forget.

Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the distance, trailing dust clouds. Cape buffalo snort and raise their horns and position themselves in front of their young. Giraffes stare over treetops, their huge brown eyes blinking, then lope away in seeming slow motion. But no elephants.

During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the climate, and he was always begging Carthage for more, but the people at home were stingy. They would ask if he thought they were made of elephants and what had he done with the elephants they sent before.

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.

I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.

It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.

What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?

The Arab awakening was like watching elephants fly: something you didn't expect, something you haven't seen before, "Wow, elephants fly."

I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.

The world's strongest animals are plant eaters. Gorillas, Buffaloes, Elephants and me.

Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.

Letter 1 To the princess of the elephants, I disappeared exactly one year ago. On that day I received a letter. It called me back to the place where my life with the elephants began Please forgive me, for the silence between us has been unbroken for one year. I will never be more of myself than in these letters. They are my maps of the bird path, and they are all that I know to be true.

Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.

Asian elephants have always worked with people and they like company.

Elephants are very sensitive to smell and they tend to recognise us by our body odour.

Leo couldn't help smiling. "That could be fun." "Fun" she said unhappily. "Blue elephants." "Blue elephants." "Kiss me you fool." "You fool.

Hannibal rode elephants into cartilage

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

Right now I've got just two rules to live by. Rule one: don't taunt elephants. Rule two: don't stand next to anybody who taunts elephants. -Sergeant Schlock

At independence, Tanzania had 350,000 elephants... in 1987, there were only 55,000 elephants left.

What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

Studying elephants is like going back into prehistoric times. In size, elephants are the closest thigns we have to dinosaurs. There are days when I feel as though there is nothing we can do for elephants - I feel that the only good I am doing is recording the extinction of one of the most magnificent animals that ever walked the earth.

People don't realize how amazing elephants are.

I was pretty shocked to learn that as many as 30,000 elephants are being killed every year to fuel the ivory trade, despite an international ban since 1989, and that 60% of forest elephants have already been wiped out. At this rate, experts say populations will become extinct in the next decade. No one needs ivory.

Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people and depressing elephants

There is no need for use of torture instruments such as ankush for controlling the elephants. We can do it with the help of verbal commands.

We are having to pull money into site-level protection for elephants just to keep them alive. But there isn't enough money to go around. The people involved in protecting those elephants, like rangers on the ground, are so under-resourced. They have very few vehicles, they have very poor weapons (if any weapons at all), and they are treated as the bottom of the tree when it comes to law enforcement priority.

Onyx is angry," Damian says. "Onyx has a right to be angry. You've got to remember, for many elephants, their life is that of a human in a war-torn country. Ravaged homes, killed relatives, separation," Damian says. Here's another thing I've learned over two months--every elephants here has a sad story. Every captive elephant's story is one of loss and separation. Something to remember every time you see happy people getting elephant rides.

Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.

Elephants are magnificient creatures.

Elephants are contagious.

Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

I've known elephants with broken hearts, others with depression.

The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.

Mother elephants in the circus cannot help their babies, but we can.

Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don't know why I was surprised to see elephants.

Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.

A man would rather be trampled by elephants on fire than tell you he's just not that into you.

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.

Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there are now more elephants.

There are 13 Asian countries that still have elephants, and Elephant Family is looking to invest in further projects that will be the most critical for saving elephants while there is still time.

I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.

Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds.

I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange... There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.

Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.

When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits.

Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget.

John Akers once said that changing IBM's culture was more difficult than getting elephants to dance. Of course it's really difficult, as Lou Gerstner also found out years later. The title of his own book is Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? He and his top executives were change masters at IBM. All organizations, especially the larger ones, will always need change masters. Dissatisfaction with the status quo and efforts to improve it should be encouraged rather than discouraged. Regrettably, that is often not the case.

My wife loves elephants and compares me to a big bull elephant.

A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation. Elephants, for instance. Once molecules have learnt to compete and to create other molecules in their own image, elephants, and things resembling elephants, will in due course be found roaming around the countryside ... Some of the things resembling elephants will be men.

Our daily battles are to get traffickers behind bars, but the war for the fate of elephants is far away from the field and our sweat, it is a war of values vs greed, where more elephants can be killed by a vote than by any gun.

If you offer them some sugarcane, even elephants can do this, sometimes on the first try.

I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.