Lions Quotes - Page 25

• If you do not receive Christ as the Lamb who saves and delivers, you will face Him as the Lion who stalks and devours.

  Steven J Lawson

  Lambs, Faces, Christ

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• To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Serengeti unchanged, for tawny lions will forever prowl our memory and great herds throng our imagination.

  George Schaller

  Memories, Rhythm Of Life, Imagination

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• A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.

  Frans Lanting

  Different, Individual, Members

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• I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion King' and 'The Producers.' I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess?

  Mario Cantone

  Kings, Two, Musical

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• If I had my way... there wouldn't be a single lion or tiger in captivity anywhere in the world. They never take to it. They're never happy. They never settle down... You can see it in their eyes.

  Hugh Lofting

  Zoos, Eye, Never Settle

  Hugh Lofting (1922). “The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle”, p.62, Frederick A. Stokes

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• By being with my kids. I'm like a lion who hunts and comes home to be looked after and sleep. I think girls tend to be drawn towards their dad. I'd love to have a son, but I have three kids who are great - three geezer birds and that's all I need to worry about.

  Ray Winstone

  Girl, Dad, Sleep

  "Ray Winstone: My daughters are geezer birds". Mirror.Co.Uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. December 7, 2008.

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• No one that has ever been in combat ever wants to see war anywhere in the world. It is horrible. It's horrible looking at the pock-marked walls. It's horrible looking at the flesh embedded on walls in Bosnia. It was horrible looking and interviewing and talking to the kids who lost their parents, because Saddam Hussein decided to feed their parents to the lions in downtown Baghdad. To characterize particularly myself, but other groups, as wanting to advocate a war I think is not only disingenuous, I think it's a patent falsehood intentionally created to stigmatize a group of people.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Wall, War

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• I was a creative player, but I got some bad injuries early on and I decided that if this was a jungle we were playing in then it's better to be a lion than a lamb.

  Johnny Giles

  Player, Creative, Lambs

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• I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Air, Order, Years

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• We don't have to go to wild places to find wildlife. A surprisingly wide range of species can be found in our sities and towns, from familiar animals like the raccoon to more exotic ones like the mountain lion.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Nature, Animal, Wild Places

  Sarah Landry, Roger Tory Peterson (1998). “Peterson First Guide to Urban Wildlife”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

  Ray Davies

  Christian, Art, Night

  Song: Give the People What They Want, Album: Give the People What They Want

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• Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance which did not prevent him from writing a good deal on the subject.

  Will Cuppy

  Writing, Necks, Bones

  "The Lion". "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes". Book by Will Cuppy, 1931.

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• Lions make leopards tame.

  William Shakespeare

  Leopards

  1595 Richard. Richard II, act 1, sc.1, l.174.

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• Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.

  Tobias Smollett

  Heart, Eye, Eagles

  Tobias Smollett (1806). “Life of Smollett, by R. Anderson. Roderick Random”, p.163

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• Calmly take what ill betideth;
  Patience wins the crown at length:
  Rich repayment him abideth
  Who endures in quiet strength.
  Brave the tamer of the lion;
  Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise;
  Bravest he who rules his passions,
  Who his own impatience sways.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Passion, Winning, Brave

  "'Die wiedergefundenen Söhne' ('The Recovered Sons', 1801)". The Monthly Religious Magazine, Volume 10, p. 445, 1853.

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• When I started this song I was still thirty-three The age that Mozart died and sweet Jesus was set free Keats and Shelley too soon finished, Charley Parker would be And I fantasized some tragedy'd be soon curtailing me Well just today I had my birthday I made it thirty-four Mere mortal, not immortal, not star-crossed anymore I've got this problem with my aging I no longer can ignore A tame and toothless tabby can't produce a lion's roar.

  Harry Chapin

  Sweet, Song, Jesus

  Song: There Only Was One Choice, Album: Dance Band on the Titanic, 1977

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• Depend upon it, since Satan could not kill the church by roaring at her like a lion, he is now trying to crush her by hugging her like a bear.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Crush, Hug, Church

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• This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters on the horizon, sitting in the tubs at Hot Springs, once in a while a bit of drink - and, most of the time, working at what ever it is that you came here to work on, whether it be painting, writing, gardening or the simple art of living your own life.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Art, Spring, Writing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.276, Ballantine Books

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• The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of literature, with resistless weapons, and impenetrable armour, with the mail of the boar of Erymanth, and the paws of the lion of Nemea.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sports, Writing, Animal

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.267

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• Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion.

  George Herbert

  Taken, Foxes

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.323

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• We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them.

  John Selden

  Moving, Judging, Looks

  John Selden, Samuel Weller Singer, Edward FitzGerald (1860). “Table Talk: With a Biographical Pref. and Notes”, p.170

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• We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you're a man. This society thinks real men are violent.

  Marge Piercy

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Marge Piercy (2016). “The Longings of Women: A Novel”, p.351, Open Road Media

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• It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right now, it will probably be a long, long time before the yard gets overrun by lions and snakes.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Snakes, Long, Yards

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• Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.

  Abraham Cowley

  Dog, Men, Roaring

  Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...”

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• [The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.

  Beryl Markham

  Men, Kind, Quiet

  McDougal, Beryl Markham (1997). “West with the Night”, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

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