Elephants Quotes - Page 15

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

  Dharma Mittra

  Yoga, Trying, Firsts

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• The earth was our home, she would have said, but no less was it home to the oxen that pulled our plows or the elephants that roamed in the forest and worked for us. They lived with us as partners whose well-being was inseparable from our own.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Home, Compassion, Oxen

  Eknath Easwaran “The Compassionate Universe: The Power of the Individual to Heal the Environment”, Nilgiri Press

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• 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.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Determination, Goal, Rabbits

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• I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Feet, Scare

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• Suppose you came across a woman lying on the street with an elephant sitting on her chest. You notice she is short of breath. Shortness of breath can be a symptom of heart problems. In her case, the much more likely cause is the elephant on her chest. For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences. That is the elephant. Until the playing field has veen leveled and lingering stereotypes are gone, you can't even ask the question.

  Sally Ride

  Lying, Heart, Bad Ass

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• To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form has its own sort of happiness and unhappiness. From the elephant down to the flea... from the flea down to the sensitive and living molecule which is the origin of all, there is not a speck in the whole of nature that does not feel pain or pleasure.

  John Dewey

  Life, Pain, Science

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• Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska the oil company spent billions tidying up the coastline, but it was a waste of money because the waves were cleaning up faster than Exxon could. Environmentalists can never accept the planet's ability to self-heal.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Nature, Science, Oil

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• 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.

  Pat Derby

  Loyalty, Equality, Whales

  Pat Derby, Peter S. Beagle (1976). “The lady and her tiger”, Dutton Books

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• When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Success, Eye, Mind

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• A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation. Elephants, for instance. Once molecules have learnt to compete and to create other molecules in their own image, elephants, and things resembling elephants, will in due course be found roaming around the countryside ... Some of the things resembling elephants will be men.

  Peter Atkins

  Men, Roaming Around, Molecules

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• Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker than that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosophers a paragon of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Children, Winter

  Bertrand Russell (1943). “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity”

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• What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?

  Roman Jakobson

  Teaching, Next, Zoology

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• Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest - have some kind of dignity or worth that no elephant, pig, or chimpanzee can ever achieve, we see that this question is as difficult to answer as our original request for some relevant fact that justifies the inequality of humans and other animals.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Pigs, Criminals

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

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Death, Car, Dying

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

  Kevin Spacey

  Mediocrity, Rooms, Elephant In The Room

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• I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it's going to be my friend.

  Dianna Agron

  Animal, May, Feels

  "Dianna Agron Interview I AM NUMBER FOUR; Plus an Update on the GLEE Super Bowl Episode". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 3, 2011.

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• Mother elephants in the circus cannot help their babies, but we can.

  Edie Falco

  Mother, Baby, Circus

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• The Elephant Man would never have gotten up and gone, ‘Oh, God. Look at me hair today.’

  Karl Pilkington

  Funny, Men, Hair

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• An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can break a leg very easily, whereas you can toss a mouse out of a window and it'll be fine. Size makes you fragile.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Break A Leg, Growth, Village

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• 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

  Shashi Tharoor

  Years, Two, Sound

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• I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Christian, Animal, Lucky

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• As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.

  Jim Starlin

  Whales, Bigs, Chains

  "Jim Starlin Kills The New Gods". Comicon.com, August 2007.

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• We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy brow, while the right eye disappeared entirely under an enormous wart-of those straggling teeth with breaches here and there like the battlements of a fortress-of that horny lip, over which one of those teeth projected like the tusk of an elephant-of that forked chin-and, above all, of the expression diffused over the whole-that mixture of malice, astonishment, and melancholy. Let the reader, if he can, figure to himself this combination.

  Victor Hugo

  Horse, Eye, Expression

  Victor Hugo (18??). “The Novels of Victor Hugo: Profusely Illustrated with Elegant Wood Engravings”

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• Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!

  Elinor Glyn

  Running, Ambition, Animal

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• In my family, my fat family, none of us ever say the word 'fat.' 'Fat' is the word you hear shouted on the playground or in the street - it's never allowed over the threshold of the house. My mum won't have that filth in her house. At home together, we are safe. ... There will be no harm to our feelings here because we never acknowledge fat exists. We never refer to our size. We are the elephants in the room.

  Caitlin Moran

  Home, House, Feelings

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