Elephants Quotes - Page 19

• Our daily battles are to get traffickers behind bars, but the war for the fate of elephants is far away from the field and our sweat, it is a war of values vs greed, where more elephants can be killed by a vote than by any gun.

  Ofir Drori

  War, Fate, Gun

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• Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!

  Jules Verne

  Tree, Sound, Uprooting

  Jules Verne (2015). “Journey to Center of the Earth”, p.209, Xist Publishing

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• I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what it's about later. My technique could be compared to having a large canvas and coming in every day and putting a dot on it somewhere, and after several years - literally - I begin to say, That reminds me of an elephant, so I think I'll make it one.

  Wallace Shawn

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• This New York thing is being blown out of proportion. Who gives a **** about New York when elephants are being killed?

  Lee Ryan

  New York, Giving, Proportion

  "Question Time dream team panel: From Katie Price to Joey Essex - the celebrities we want to see speak their mind" by Jessica Haworth, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2014.

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• The safari was amazing, to actually see the elephants and the Lions up close and then right at the end to actually get in the cage with the Lion was one of the best moments of the tour.

  Ugo Monye

  Safari, Lions, Cages

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• Q: What's the difference between a tweaker and an elephant?
  A: The elephant will eat all your peanut butter.

  Bucky Sinister

  Differences, Peanut Butter, Peanuts

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• It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

  Vin Diesel

  Animal, Bizarre, Trainers

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. March 31, 2003.

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• Elephant Man [movie] was much more difficult physically. This had a couple of days. It was quite tricky. I had my leg strapped up behind me and I am a little older now. It was all marvelous, though. He [Bong Joon-ho] is one of the most fabulous directors in the world.

  John Hurt

  Couple, Men, Fabulous

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.

  George Balanchine

  Girl, Strong, Ballet

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• There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all those Swedish farmwives from beyond the grave who were like, 'Go! Go to Naples! Eat more pizza! Go to India, ride an elephant! Do it! Swim in the Indian Ocean. Read those books. Learn a language.'

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Ocean, Book, Swear To God

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• Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Children, Pigs, Parent

  "Is Christianity Good for the World?". Book by Christopher Hitchens, ‎Douglas Wilson, 2009.

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• I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Children, School, Dumbo

  "Hopkins' Father Stopped School Beatings With Threats" by wenn.com, February 16, 2010.

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• I often say, with something like 'The Elephant Man,' had it been an American series for television, where you have to sign your life away for seven years...well, maybe I would never have made 'Sailcloth.'

  John Hurt

  Men, Seven Years, Television

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• In America you have the mouse now trying to sit down on the elephant, thinking that he's going somewhere. And it's - and it's absurd.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, America, Trying

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• Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.

  Frans de Waal

  Apes, Social, Capacity

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• The elephant in the room time and time again when it comes to work and promotions is maternity leave. We need to work with businesses so they work with women and make it easy and supportive for them to come back into the workplace.

  Mary Portas

  Supportive, Needs, Rooms

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, States, Department

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• Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it.

  N.D. Wilson

  Doctors, Magic, Teeth

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• I am she who lifts the mountains When she goes to hunt, Who wears mamba for a headband And a lion for a belt. Beware! I swallow elephants whole And pick my teeth with rhinoceros horns, I drink up rivers to get at the hippos. Let them hear my words! Nhamo is coming And her hunger is great. I am she who tosses trees Instead of spears. The ostrich is my pillow And the elephant is my footstool! I am Nhamo Who makes the river my highway And sends crocodiles scurrying into the reeds!

  Nancy Farmer

  Ostriches, Rivers, Tree

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• Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.

  Umberto Eco

  Beautiful, Eagles, Long

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• I'm like an elephant, ok? If I walk into a room, it's like, OK, he's in there.

  Aziz Ansari

  Rooms, Walks, Ifs

  "Fictional character: Tom Haverford". "Parks and Recreation/ The Fight" (Season 3, Episode 13), 2011.

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• Yes, you have cancer. Yes, your kids are on drugs. Yes, there is an elephant outside your tent. Now the question becomes, What are you going to do about it? Subsequent emotions may not be pleasant, but the hysteria stops. Hysteria accompanies an unwillingness to look at what is really going on; it promotes an unwillingness to look. We feel we are afraid to look, when actually it is not-looking that makes us afraid. The minute we look, we cease being afraid.

  Michael Crichton

  Cancer, Kids, Hysteria

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.219, Vintage

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• 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

  Shining, Awkward, Fool

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• To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the turn of last century. Clamp heavy chains around their legs and stake them to the ground. Then beat and terrorize them. After a while you no longer even have to stake the chain; the elephant gives up and just the mere rattle of the chain convinces the elephant there is no hope, so they give up and do whatever it is the circus requires.

  Glenn Beck

  Giving Up, Men, Legs

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• There's enough sedative in these darts to bring down a werewolf, which is exactly what we're hunting. Why would we want to bring down an elephant if we're not hunting elephants?

  Derek Landy

  Hunting, Want, Enough

  Derek Landy (2012). “Kingdom of the Wicked (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 7)”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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