Lions Quotes - Page 3

• The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.

  John Hanning Speke

  Heard

  John Hanning Speke (2007). “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

  Chuck Jones

  Hungry Lion, Together, Predator

  Chuck Jones (1999). “Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist”, p.166, Macmillan

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• The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Kings, Father, Lion King

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• We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.

  Dirk Benedict

  Dog, Hiking, Mountain

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• To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Simple, Men

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

  Will Cuppy

  People, Loses

  Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”

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• There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Effort, Lazy, Hunters

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• All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Struggle, Rely Upon, Survival

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• Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Reading, Book, Lambs

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• You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Breakfast, May, Fleas

  "Henry V". Book by William Shakespeare, Orleans, scene vii, 1599.

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• For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Dog, Russia, People

  Broadcast on BBC Russian Service, in Listener 15 Feb. 1979

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• Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

  Patrick Stewart

  Tanks, Captains, Rooms

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• At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Dog, Time, Men

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.158, Shambhala Publications

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• At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.

  Josh Lucas

  Stronger, Males, Alpha Male

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• I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?

  Dimitris Mitropoulos

  Book, Musical, Doe

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• It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

  Winston Churchill

  Heart, Good Luck, Race

  Speech at Westminster Hall, London, 30 Nov. 1954

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• An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.

  George Chapman

  Lambs, Englishmen, Threatened

  'Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany' (1654) act 1

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• Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion.
  [Lat., Noli
  Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]

  Juvenal

  Beard, Pluck

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• The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.

  William Blake

  Eye, Men, Sea

  William Blake (1975). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, p.18, Oxford Paperbacks

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• It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.

  Abe Gubegna

  Running, Athletic, Matter

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• The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion kums tew git up, the lamb will be missing.

  Josh Billings

  Missing, Together, World

  Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.227

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• The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

  George Herbert

  Fierce, Paint

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.301

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• One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.

  George Fordyce

  Men, Meals, Enough

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• The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.

  Branford Marsalis

  Successful, People, Listening

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• When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.

  Julie Taymor

  Kings, Reality, Thinking

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