Top 255 Elephants Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 13, 2024.
Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store.
The stars you see at night are the unblinking eyes of sleeping elephants, who sleep with one eye open to best keep watch over us.
As Dr. Chiang puts it, “while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls.
We know African and Asian elephants can interbreed, and they're separated by 5 million to 6 million years.
So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns
Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.
Some women are like elephants. I don't mean size, I mean they never forget.
To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.
The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.
Noah's wife, who said to Noah, Don't let the elephants watch the rabbits. Never got a dinner!
Elephants are social, thoughtful animals. They live in communities and - I have to say it - in matriarchal societies. They bear no grudge, but they remember well.
If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers
I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don't think I'm big enough to manifest five Asian elephants cloaked in gold.
It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.
Just in case you thought elephants were all sweetness, I can attest to the fact that this one had the time of her life scaring the bejeezus out of those dudes.
I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
Elephants love to play around. They are very intelligent animals. They have a strong bond, at times stretching to several decades, with their mahouts.
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
I had to wait for someone special. Someone who would make my heart feel as if it's been trampled by elephants, thrown into the amazon, and eaten by piranhas.
If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.
Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.
The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.
Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.
Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked.
African elephants have long been thought of as a single species, but a critical mass of genetic studies now proves there are two.
You can look at your dog and see that it's thinking and has strong feelings. And if it does, so do wolves. And if wolves do, so do elephants. People aren't the only beings that think and feel.
The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem.
My biggest concern and main engagement with UNEP is focused on endangered species and illegal wildlife trade - mostly elephants, rhinos, etc.
Public television is a very important thing for our human race, and it allows us the ability to discuss the elephants in the room and understand stories beyond the headlines.
Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.
I'm one of those people who sees Frank Zappa in a cup of coffee, or elephants wrestling in clouds. But also, conscious creation of all kinds moves me.
They [gorillas] are brave and loyal. They help each other. They rival elephants as parents and whales for gentleness. They play and have humor and they harm nothing. They are what we should be. I don't know if we'll ever get there.
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
We...we could be friends.' We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.
They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end.
Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.
Elephants seek food elsewhere if their route is blocked, and raiding crops and grain stores brings them into conflict with people, often resulting in deaths on both sides.
Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.
I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me funny like elephants!
If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.
Elephants don't know anything about the world of ants; the peaks of mountains are oblivious of what is happening on the plains!
China cares about its reputation and doesn't want to be known as the nation whose preferences drove the extinction of elephants.
Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one.
We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.
I was born in love with all elephants. Not for a reason that I know. Not because of any of their individual qualities — wisdom, kindness, power, grace, patience, loyalty — but for what they are altogether. For their entire elephantness.
Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.
Preventing ongoing extinction of elephants, rhinoceroses, and other threatened species is critically important. By all means, we must set priorities for allocating finite conservation resources.
Elephants are like humans. They are very smart, very logical.
If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so.
Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.
Diplomacy is much like the "lovemaking of elephants", which is accompanied with a lot of bellowing and other sound effects, but no one can be sure of the consequences for at least the next two years
Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.
You see, in a world where elephants are pursued by flying men, people are just naturally going to want to get high.
The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.
I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others’ backs at a circus.
Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.
