Quotes about Elephants

Elephants and grandchildren never forget. Votes: 6

Elephants are contagious. Votes: 4

Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people. Votes: 4

Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms. Votes: 4

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it. Votes: 4

Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff and touch it. With their unparalleled sense of smell, the animals know exactly what they are going for. Vision is secondary. Votes: 4

Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly. Votes: 3

Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything. Votes: 3

The world's strongest animals are plant eaters. Gorillas, Buffaloes, Elephants and me. Votes: 3

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget. Votes: 3

Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind. Votes: 3

Elephants don't know anything about the world of ants; the peaks of mountains are oblivious of what is happening on the plains! Votes: 3

When you hear "Action" do it.When you see Elephants,Believe in it.When you want to do something do it now. Votes: 3

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them. Votes: 3

Elephants love to play around. They are very intelligent animals. They have a strong bond, at times stretching to several decades, with their mahouts. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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) Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations. Votes: 3

Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living one. The ivory. We must challenge this so-called 'trade' with all our might and shame on those who would condone it. Votes: 3

Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget. Votes: 2

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole. Votes: 2

Education isn't everything, for a start it isn't an elephant Votes: 2

I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle. Votes: 2

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time. Votes: 2

I have a face like the behind of an elephant. Votes: 2

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. Votes: 2

If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid. Votes: 2

Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time. Votes: 2

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me. Votes: 2

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant. Votes: 2

I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on. Votes: 2

We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second. Votes: 2

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere. Votes: 2

Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself. Votes: 2

I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes. Votes: 2

Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one. Votes: 2

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels. Votes: 2

It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs. Votes: 2

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure. Votes: 2

Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark. Votes: 2

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures. Votes: 2

When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers. Votes: 2

The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes. Votes: 2

The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem. Votes: 2

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. Votes: 2

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance... Votes: 2

The Nature of Jade' is about a girl who works with the elephants at the zoo near her home, and who, through her involvement with them, becomes involved with a boy and his baby. Votes: 2

We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior. Votes: 2

I don't know how many lions and leopards I've shot. I've shot two elephants, which was enough - never again. It's a melancholy and moving thing to hunt an elephant. It's like shooting an old man. Votes: 2

As far as my memory being reliable, at the risk of sounding like some sort of gorgeous two-headed monster with the voices of Dave Barry and Erma Bombeck, I do think that women, like elephants, remember everything and love peanuts. Votes: 2

The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Illegal killings of elephants are being linked to organized crime and the funding of armed militia groups. Many consumers in Asia do not realize that by buying ivory, they are playing a role in the illegal wildlife trade and its serious consequences. Votes: 2

And the political system is changing rapidly in this country, and we better realize that. The elephants or donkeys are not what younger people look to. They look at individual candidates' philosophy, and I think it's a different time and a different generation. Votes: 2

I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants. Votes: 2

I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you! Votes: 2

I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it. Votes: 2

I spent a lot of my life - 20 years of it - in war, training army trackers and commanding a tracker unit, and then in the Game Department, tracking lions and elephants and poachers. So I've spent literally thousands of hours tracking people or animals, and training others to do it. Votes: 2

I have done everything I have ever wanted to do. I have swum with tiger sharks, been charged by lions and elephants. I have been shot three times, chased by crocodiles and, God be praised, I've made enough money that I can continue to do all the things I want to for as long as I am able. Votes: 2

I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley. Votes: 2

Women and elephants never forget. Votes: 0

Hannibal rode elephants into cartilage Votes: 0

Women and elephants never forget an injury. Votes: 0

What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology? Votes: 0

I've known elephants with broken hearts, others with depression. Votes: 0

Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people and depressing elephants Votes: 0

The elephants are dancing on the graves of squeeling mice. Votes: 0

When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits. Votes: 0

Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants. Votes: 0

Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds. Votes: 0

Mother elephants in the circus cannot help their babies, but we can, Votes: 0

Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants. Votes: 0

Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink? Votes: 0

Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants. Votes: 0

Some women are like elephants. I don't mean size, I mean they never forget. Votes: 0

I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants. Votes: 0

If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun. Votes: 0

Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget. Votes: 0

Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos. Votes: 0

If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so. Votes: 0

The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled. Votes: 0

Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade. Votes: 0

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you. Votes: 0

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot. Votes: 0

If you offer them some sugarcane, even elephants can do this, sometimes on the first try. Votes: 0

Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store. Votes: 0

Noah's wife, who said to Noah, Don't let the elephants watch the rabbits. Never got a dinner! Votes: 0

Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don't know why I was surprised to see elephants. Votes: 0

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains. Votes: 0

It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal. Votes: 0

A man would rather be trampled by elephants on fire than tell you he's just not that into you. Votes: 0

The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool. Votes: 0

As Dr. Chiang puts it, “while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls. Votes: 0

Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked. Votes: 0

Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps. Votes: 0

I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others' backs at a circus. Votes: 0

This New York thing is being blown out of proportion. Who gives a **** about New York when elephants are being killed? Votes: 0

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants. Votes: 0

So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns Votes: 0

China cares about its reputation and doesn't want to be known as the nation whose preferences drove the extinction of elephants. Votes: 0

Leo couldn't help smiling. "That could be fun." "Fun" she said unhappily. "Blue elephants." "Blue elephants." "Kiss me you fool." "You fool. Votes: 0

My biggest concern and main engagement with UNEP is focused on endangered species and illegal wildlife trade - mostly elephants, rhinos, etc. Votes: 0

You see, in a world where elephants are pursued by flying men, people are just naturally going to want to get high. Votes: 0

Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer. Votes: 0

To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble. Votes: 0

Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities. Votes: 0

Don't ask why the elephants wear such large shoes,And why the kangaroos are reborn kidnappers,And why the sailing birds are all Romantics. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My circus train pulls through the nightFull of lions and trapeze artistsI'm done with elephants and clownsI want to run away and join the office Votes: 0

You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as interesting. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

They want dancing girls! They want thrills! They want elephants! They want people falling off roofs! They want dreams! The world is full of little people with big dreams! Votes: 0

A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the elephants rule, or some other more compassionate species. Votes: 0

One: Don't play leapfrog with elephants. Two: Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging. Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary. -Mayberry Rules for a Long, Happy Life Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Over-population is the 'cause of drive-by shootings' and other social ills, but the root of the problem is Christianity, which posits that people are more important than sea otters and elephants. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's enough sedative in these darts to bring down a werewolf, which is exactly what we're hunting. Why would we want to bring down an elephant if we're not hunting elephants? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner for a half hour and never once think about elephants. Votes: 0

We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them. Votes: 0

I went to University in 1991, and I remember, nobody thought of India. I remember conversations where people would laugh and say, "Do you have elephants on the road?" Nobody is saying that today. Votes: 0

Maybe it’s animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry. Votes: 0

I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didn't grow up wanting to draw donkeys and elephants with the names of politicians written across them. Votes: 0