The Elephant Quotes
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The Elephant Quotes & Sayings
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The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
— Madeleine Albright
But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Money, you could say, was the elephant in The Room.
— Greg Sestero
The elephant smoked too much.
— Victor Borge
You need to think about the month, you need to plan the day, you need to take your elephant and divide into pieces and eat a slice a day
— Sunday Adelaja
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
— Seth MacFarlane
It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex.
— Morgan Matson
Min hadn't just played the "friend" card - she'd dressed it up in all kinds of cool Batman imagery. Gunnar and I were powerless to resist.
— Brent Hartinger
An elephant overcome obstacles and barriers, and crush whatever standing in his path, obstacles and barriers, in the name of Jesus, clear-off.
— Ademola Adejumo
In the wild, a mother elephant and her daughter will stay together until one or the other dies.
— Jodi Picoult
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
— Pablo Picasso
May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes, may your wife be plagued with runners in her hose.
— 'Little' Jimmy Dickens
In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.
— Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
It is easy to scoff at "native superstition" from the back of an elephant with a powerful rifle in your hand.
— Patrick Newman
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.
— Charlie Chaplin
The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.
— George Balanchine
When the bullseye becomes as big as an elephant in your mind, you won't be able to miss it.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Sarah is a mirage after all; an oasis in this arid, amnesiac, desert mindscape. I fear if I get too close she too will turn to dust.
— Jonathan Dunne
The night before 'The Elephant Man' opened, we had a sleepover for 12 kids. Being organized is the key.
— Scott Ellis
My old man always told me never do anything during the day that will keep you awake at night.
— Jonathan Dunne
Of course, Jules was not a wolf. She was an elephant. But Jules was a very young toy and she had never been to school to learn the difference.
— Julie B. Campbell
He laughed. The laugh could strip the skin off an elephant in seconds.
— Lilith Saintcrow
I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
— Sting
When there's an elephant in the room introduce him.
— Randy Pausch
Took myself to Byculla. The area around the elephants is very soothing. I wish I were an elephant. I would be so composed.
— Jerry Pinto
Better it is to live alone; there is no fellowship with a fool. Live alone and do no evil; be carefree like an elephant in the elephant forest.
— Gautama Buddha
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
Ella is nervous," the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. "The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella.
— Rick Riordan
The lion's blessing is in his strength; the monkey's blessing is in his cunning; and the elephant's blessing is in his might.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away. it's best to let him run.
— Abraham Lincoln
We must love all of creation, not only what is common. A god may have the head of an elephant, after all.
— Kay Kenyon
The bird and the elephant drink from the same river.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'.
— Rahul Gandhi
She owned the roadas an elephant owns the veldt
and like a big blue elephant
moved with massive grace
and dignity. — David Drake
When I was four I read the story of horton hears a who and I cried. I wanted to eat that elephant.
— Thom Yorke
the sun, the Nigerians are loading up for the day. One balances a carved elephant on one finger, another
— Sara Alexi
Sometimes a phone made me think of an elephant turd. You know, all the shit you hear. A phone is a phone but what comes through it is another matter.
— Charles Bukowski
Q: How do you tell when there's an elephant in the pit?A: Peanut shells on the floor. — Bucky Sinister
The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.
— Jonathan Haidt
The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.
— Terry Pratchett
Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.
— Ross Perot
A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
— Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
The Vietnamese have a saying that you can't use a basket to cover a lion or an elephant.
— Tim Weiner
So slowly the hot elephant heartsgrow full of desire,
and the great beasts mate in secret at last,
hiding their fire. — D.H. Lawrence
Do not be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk in mud.
— Gautama Buddha
Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.
— Lenny Kravitz
The elephant, the huge old beast,is slow to mate — D.H. Lawrence
The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.
— Jonathan Haidt
You see, you need to make sure you compare yourself to the right person. An elephant passes tons of waste but will never run as fast as the rabbit.
— Raghavan Rajendran
Animosity killed the elephant.
— Kevin Dalton
Not every ant which stays under the elephant's foot dies; the most powerful cannot always kill the weakest!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.
— Jesse Ball
Stick that bumbershootin elephant's foot
brolly stand behind
the big door. Mind
your manners at High tea. — Tim Dlugos
But perhaps you do not understand. I was crippled, crippled by an elephant that came through the roof - Madam LaVaughn
— Kate DiCamillo
Daemon was the pissy pink elephant in the room with a bad attitude.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
If its about the existence of god, you may as well ask me, what the square root of an elephant is?
— Steve Merrick
The elephant in the room has always been simulator sickness and disorientation. That's one of the biggest challenges.
— Brendan Iribe
Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.
— Henry David Thoreau
A mouse is the size of a mouse for a good reason, and a mouse that was the size of an elephant wouldn't do very well.
— Michael Pollan
If you're gonna shoot an elephant Mr. Schneider, you better be prepared to finish the job.
— Gary Larson
And that is the real elephant in the room. The monkey in my wrench. The worm in my candy bar ...
— J. Kenner
The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.
— Pope Gregory I
I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.
— Anthony Hopkins
The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.
— Shane Claiborne
Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously.
— Stephen E. Ambrose
Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
I looked down at the brochure nearest me."We're going to Nigeria," I threatened. "I hope you like elephant polo." -Liberty Jones — Lisa Kleypas
I have a face like the behind of an elephant.
— Charles Laughton
What ever happened to freak shows? Back in the twenties when elephant man was born at least he had a job waiting for him.
— Doug Stanhope
Have you ever been bitten by an elephant? How about a mosquito? It's the little things in life that will bite you.
— Darren Hardy
He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.
— Randolph Bourne
