Top 431 Elephant Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
The creeping optimism that there might be a route to peace in Syria remains constrained by the elephant in the room - Bashar al-Assad.
The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.
The two symbols of the Republican party: an elephant and a big fat white guy who's threatened by change.
The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.
I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.
Our party's symbol is the elephant, and its weight, size and strength symbolize Uttar Pradesh.
If you don't address race, then people are like, 'Why don't you talk about the elephant in the room?' But you have to do it right. It can't be gimmicky.
Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.
Like the proverbial elephant in the room, American anti-Europeanism has loomed large for so long that few trouble to notice it.
An elephant funeral makes me weep every time, and so does an ad with a kid leaving home for college.
The Elephant Man would never have gotten up and gone, ‘Oh, God. Look at me hair today.’
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.
What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel
I feel I must have been an elephant in a former life. I love the sensitivity and peaceful force of these creatures.
The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant.
It does not matter if you vote for the left or right, you are not an elephant or donkey. You are a truthful lion who stands only for your conscience.
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.
Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.
Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.
When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there was no one there to hear it, does it - philosopically speaking - make a noise
I've always been the girl who can't sit on her hands. If there's a pink elephant in the room, I'll identify it and say it.
I always think I look like the Elephant Man - I can't get used to my own image.
Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.
An elephant is the king of the jungle for the simple reason a lion is only brave when there is loads of them.
God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.
It's nice to have an elephant in the room. There's nothing more helpful than something everybody's thinking about.
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant.
I've been told I looked like I swallowed an elephant or a pig, whichever was more fitting that day.
The night before 'The Elephant Man' opened, we had a sleepover for 12 kids. Being organized is the key.
Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.
And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze
About a star of deathless and painless peace
But no astronomer can find where it is.
As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.
Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
The truth is, I have an excellent team, a staff that handles Blue Elephant, my translation company, perfectly. It is like a well-oiled machine.
The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.
The big elephant sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply unqualified for the job. What's his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?
We can't have these great corporations crowding competition off the sidewalks. It's like an elephant saying, "Everyone for himself," as he dances among the chickens.
What ever happened to freak shows? Back in the twenties when elephant man was born at least he had a job waiting for him.
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.
With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.
In America you have the mouse now trying to sit down on the elephant, thinking that he's going somewhere. And it's - and it's absurd.
Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.
Not every ant which stays under the elephant's foot dies; the most powerful cannot always kill the weakest!
They can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What does that even mean?
But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?
Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.
I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!
If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.
In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of the traditional elephant corridors.
I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.
The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)
I first got involved with Mel Brooks through 'The Elephant Man.' Everybody knows now, but they didn't know at the time that he was the producer.
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.
So slowly the hot elephant hearts
grow full of desire,
and the great beasts mate in secret at last,
hiding their fire.
