Giraffe Quotes - Page 2

• I stay higher than giraffe pussy

  Gucci Mane

  Weed, Rap, Pussy

  946 Copy quote

• 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

  Animal, Koalas, Would Be

  12 Copy quote

• When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.

  Elvin Hayes

  Leadership, Basketball, Sports

  15 Copy quote

• 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

  Discovery, Hydrogen, Enterprise

  What Is Enlightenment? Magazine Interview, storyoftheuniverse.org.

  49 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans.

  Brian Swimme

  Years, Rose, Hydrogen

  36 Copy quote

• Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the distance, trailing dust clouds. Cape buffalo snort and raise their horns and position themselves in front of their young. Giraffes stare over treetops, their huge brown eyes blinking, then lope away in seeming slow motion. But no elephants.

  Thomas French

  Zebras, Distance, Eye

  10 Copy quote

• If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?

  Isak Dinesen

  Song, Children, Lying

  "Fictional character: Karen Blixen". "Out of Africa", www.imdb.com. 1985.

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.

  Ann Landers

  Guy, Needs, Throat

  9 Copy quote

• The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.

  Adrian Mitchell

  Believe, Men, He Man

  Adrian Mitchell (1997). “Heart on the Left: Poems, 1953-1984”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Falling In Love, Zoos, Eagles

  69 Copy quote

• Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder?

  Karl Pilkington

  Ladders, Evolution, Carpentry

  "Xfm" Radio, June 11, 2005.

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Zoos, Reading, Blood

  23 Copy quote

• 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

  Children, Book, Reading

  19 Copy quote

• It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Oddities, Feelings

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.7, Souvenir Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Snakes, Earth, Bunnies

  "Interview Showdown: Ted Turner 1, Publicist 0" by Michelle Kung, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Gonzo leaps like a giraffe and grabs it.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Art, Men, Born

  John Ruskin (1894). “Letters on Art and Literature”

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius , in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet 's Madness.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Wise, Long, Soul

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  Running, Elephants, Joy

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  Mean, Males, Female

  "Gingrich's 'Piggies' Poked". www.nytimes.com. January 19, 1995.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Happiness, Girl, Baby

  21 Copy quote

• 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

  Funny, Dog, Silly

  9 Copy quote

• All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Looks, Pages

  Roald Dahl (1994). “The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me”, Puffin HC

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We walk, and our religion is shown even to the dullest and most insensitive person in how we walk. Or to put it more accurately, living in this world means choosing, choosing to walk, and the way we choose to walk is infallibly and perfectly expressed in the walk itself. Nothing can disguise it. The walk of an ordinary man and of an enlightened man are as different as that of a snake and a giraffe.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Mean, Men, Snakes

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1948). “Zen in English literature and oriental classics”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive by reaching ever higher for food is, like so many Darwinian explanations of its kind, little more than a post hoc speculation." Hitching is quite correct, but he rebuts a fairy story that Darwin was far too smart to tell - even though the tale later entered our high school texts as a "classic case" nonetheless.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Smart, Book, School

  7 Copy quote