I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you. — Sophia Loren
A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage. — Isak Dinesen
I saw a giraffe with a short neck
That was sad
Or a deer — Bo Burnham
I'd hate to be a giraffe with a sore throat. — Mitch Hedberg
Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out. — Sid Waddell
On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality. — Bill Vaughan
I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe. — Sayings
GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone. — Ambrose Bierce
Sometimes facing opportunity is like staring at the knees of a giraffe. — Laurie Beth Jones
However much you know giraffes, to see one in the wild for the first time feels prehistoric. — Jane Goodall
The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood. — Heinrich Heine
The world's strongest animals are plant eaters. Gorillas, Buffaloes, Elephants and me. — Patrik Baboumian
Camels are snobbish
and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic--
even murderous.
Reindeer seem over-serious. — Marianne Moore
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
Short Giraffe Quotes
Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes. — Kurt Vonnegut
A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be. — Gary Vaynerchuk
If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans. — Brian Swimme
Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder? — Karl Pilkington
A bit of advice: never read a pop-up book about giraffes. — Sean Lock
When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears. — Elvin Hayes
Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction. — Geraldine Jewsbury
I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it. — Joanna Lumley
You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat. — Ann Landers
Gonzo leaps like a giraffe and grabs it. — Jerry Coleman
In Africa, there were few plants willing to be domesticated, and even fewer animals. Much of the land consists of jungle, swamp, desert, or steep-sided plateau, none of which lend themselves to the growing of wheat or rice, or sustaining herds of sheep. Africa's rhinos, gazelles, and giraffes stubbornly refused to be beasts of burden. — Tim Marshall
You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream. — Frank Zappa
The chimpanzees in the zoos do it, Some courageous kangaroos do it Let's do it, let's fall in love. I'm sure giraffes on the sly do it, Even eagles as they fly do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love. — Cole Porter
The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk. — Michael Klaper
When I'm feeling sad, or lonely, and I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know where I'm going, I imagine the Cool Awesome Future Version of Myself just telling my present self, "It's okay. You just gotta grab that giraffe by the ears and ride it on out." — Jenna Marbles
This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebuds, giraffes and humans. — Brian Swimme
Wildlife is something which man cannot construct. Once it is gone, it is gone forever. Man can rebuild a pyramid, but he can't rebuild ecology, or a giraffe. — Joy Adamson
People are the only animals that drink the milk of the mother of another species. All other animals stop drinking milk altogether after weaning. It is unnatural for a dog to nurse from a mother giraffe; it is just as unnatural for a human being to drink the milk of a cow. — Michael Klaper
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. — Pablo Picasso
Consider the biggest animals on the planet: elephants, and buffaloes, and giraffes. These are vegetarian animals. They grow to thousands of pounds of muscle and bone without ever eating cheeseburgers and pepperoni pizzas. — Michael Klaper
I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the way up to its head; but it is hard to imagine that anyone would conclude tht giraffes do not have long necks. At least not anyone who had ever been to a zoo — Robert Solow
My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe. — Brigitte Nielsen
Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that. — Catherine Marshall
Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant. — David Attenborough
Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans. — James Lee
A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe. — John Ruskin
I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses. — Ted Turner
I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked. — Joanna Lumley
It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet. — Joanna Lumley
My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa. — Caterina Murino
Sophie is asking mum ‘Why am I NOT a doll NOT an adult NOT a boy NOT a giraffe?’ It’s so easy to miss all we are when we focus on what we are not! — Christine Caine
If you are a jackal, you will try to reassure. Jackals try to fix people in pain. They can't stand pain, but make matters worse by trying to get rid of it. Put on giraffe ears. Try to hear what they are feeling and needing. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running. — Emanuel Cleaver
If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes. — Newt Gingrich
I very much like Kenya. It's hard to beat the Masai Mara and the idea of ballooning across it. I have a great time at Lewa. There's more rhinos than you'll find anywhere. A great part for the children is you can ride horses with the giraffes and the zebra. — Mark Burnett
All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others. — Cynthia Heimel
A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing. — Robert Fulghum
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