A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. — Jackie Kennedy
The man who has mounted an elephant will not fear the bark of a dog. — Indian Proverbs
Ride the elephant to catch the grasshoppers. — Thai Proverbs
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. — Lyall Watson
My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere. — Steven Wright
When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him. — Randy Pausch
When an elephant is in trouble, even a frog will kick him. — Indian Proverbs
It is no disgrace to move out of the way of the elephant. — Vietnamese Proverbs
When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets hurt. — African Proverbs
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. — Robert R. McCammon
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. — Abraham Lincoln
Short Elephant Quotes
With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk. — John Von Neumann
We humans are better at pointing out the elephants in other rooms than in our own. — Lex Fridman
When you look at an elephant, look at its tail. When you look at a girl, look at her mother. — Thai Proverbs
To make an elephant out of a fly. — Italian Proverbs
Don’t make an elephant out of a mosquito. —
When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate. — Sara Gruen
Do not compare a fly with an elephant — Greek Proverbs
Elephants are killed for their ivory, birds for their feathers. — Vietnamese Proverbs
Make of a fly an elephant. — French Proverbs
How many elephants have been stung by scorpions. — Moroccan Proverbs
Elephant Image Quotes
If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.
Elephant Man Quotes
I find it striking that the quality of the urban habitat of homo sapieans is so weakly researched compared to the habitats of gorillas, elephants, and Bengal tigers and panda bears in China…you hardly see anything on the habitat of man in the urban environment. — Jan Gehl
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution. — Havelock Ellis
I am not an animal! I am a human being! I…am…a man! — Joseph Merrick
If size mattered, the elephant would be the kind of the jungle.
Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome. — Isabella Rossellini
Tis true, my form is something odd
but blaming me, is blaming God,
Could I create myself anew
I would not fail in pleasing you. — Joseph Merrick
If I could reach from pole to pole
or grasp the ocean with a span,
I would be measured by the soul
The mind's the standard of the Man. — Isaac Watts
I'll do anything to keep everyone laughing. Things get too intense on film sets. I remember on The Elephant Man, I used to imitate a cat without moving my lips. David Lynch would say, "Cut! Sorry, we've got a noise somewhere on set." Everyone would be looking around for this cat. — Anthony Hopkins
Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of "The Elephant Man" and just recently collaborated on "Lazarus," an off-Broadway musical that's a sequel to his 1976 role in the film "The Man Who Fell To Earth." — David Bowie
Elephant In The Room Quotes
Mediocrity is the elephant in the room. — Kevin Spacey
when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants. — Ellen Wittlinger
Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any. — Sayings
When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk. — Karen Joy Fowler
Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room. — Patricia Heaton
I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life. — Richard Dawkins
Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice. — Dinesh D'Souza
Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss. — Lenny Kravitz
Time magazine put Chris Christie on the cover with the caption, 'The Elephant in the Room.' And People magazine named him 'Sexiest Garbage Truck in a Suit.' — Bill Maher
We all know the big elephant in the room. The big elephant in the room is African governments. Africa has been totally mismanaged and misruled, but nobody wants to talk about that because of political correctness. — George W. Bush
Water For Elephants Quotes
I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants) — Sara Gruen
With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not. — Sara Gruen
Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus? — Sara Gruen
Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse. — Sara Gruen
I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. I want. — Sara Gruen
Although there are times I'd give anything to have her back, I'm glad she went first. Losing her was like being cleft down the middle. It was the moment it all ended for me, and I wouldn't have wanted her to go through that. — Sara Gruen
The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect. — Sara Gruen
Dear God. Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses to take care of. — Sara Gruen
I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other. — Sara Gruen
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. — Desmond Tutu
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? — David Attenborough
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. — Richard Leakey
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. — Shane Claiborne
Ghostface, catch the blast of a hype verse,
My glock bursts, leave in a hearse, I did worse.
I come rough, tough like an elephant tusk,
Ya head rush, fly like Egyptian musk. — Ghostface Killah
If you're Noah, and your ark is about to sink, look for the elephants first, because you can throw over a bunch of cats, dogs, squirrels, and everything else that is just a small animal and your ark will keep sinking. But if you can find one elephant to get overboard, you're in much better shape. — Vilfredo Pareto
I can give or take elephants; I never can find the cheetah-but the zebras captivate me. They'd be one of the few things that would fit if we were lucky enough to live in a world that's black or white. — Jodi Picoult
We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance. — Ingrid Newkirk
I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes. — Al Sharpton
I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes. — Al Sharpton
Elephants and grandchildren never forget. — Andy Rooney
I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.' — Enrico Fermi
If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress. — Buddha
The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet. — Pope Gregory I
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist... — John Sedgwick
The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know. — Gus Van Sant
To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day. Touched by the family, cuddled and comforted. A tremendous love and compassion exuded by every family member. I think it must be how it ought to be, in a perfect world. — Daphne Sheldrick
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