Elephant Quotes

1. "A turtle without a shell is a very strange thing. Even with shells, turtles are very strange things, with their miniature elephant's feet, parrot's beak and ludicrous tail.-pg 30"
Author: Albert Sánchez Piñol

2. "This time I saw. In a blue heaven was coiled an infinite snake of gold and green, with four eyes of fire, black fire and red, that darted rays in every direction; held within its coils was a great multitude of laughing children. And even as I looked, all this was blotted out. Crawling rivers of blood spread over the heaven, of blood purulent with nameless forms - mangy dogs with their bowels dragging behind them; creatures half elephant, half beetle; things that were but a ghastly bloodshot eye, set about with leathery tentacles; women whose skins heaved and bubbled like boiling sulphur, giving off clouds that condensed into a thousand other shapes, more hideous than their mother; these were the least of the denizens of these hateful rivers."
Author: Aleister Crowley

3. "The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled."
Author: Andrew Vachss

4. "Ignoring Gray Porter is like ignoring an elephant in a tut. A really hot elephant in a tutu... a very manly tutu." -Jess"
Author: Anne Eliot

5. "It's more like he was an ant in the land of elephants. Nobody would notice his presence, no matter how much noise he might make."
Author: B. Barmanbek

6. "It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss."
Author: C.S. Lewis

7. "Animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us. They are more perfect because they remain within Nature's fearful symmetry just as Nature intended. They should be respected and revered, but perhaps none more so than the elephant, the world's most emotionally human land mammal."
Author: Daphne Sheldrick

8. "She owned the roadas an elephant owns the veldtand like a big blue elephantmoved with massive graceand dignity."
Author: David Drake

9. "The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?"
Author: David Attenborough

10. "The six elephants stood, roped each by the foreleg side by side in the vast thirty-foot tent put up several days since for their comfort; their trunks peacefully swaying as the cowardie scuttled back and forth with limp forkloads of hay. Small puffs of steam came from their mouths. Their breath was sweet, filling the sun-warmed, crisp air; and their hides, soothed, clean and lustrous from the water, lay calm on their great hips like the skin of the moon. Only at the end of the line the great bull stirred a little, the towering back swathed and padded and the knowing eye blurred."
Author: Dorothy Dunnett

11. "... just as when we see a pig in a litter larger than the other pigs, we know that by an unalterable law of the Inscrutable it will some day be larger than an elephant,—just as we know, when we see weeds and dandelions growing more and more thickly in a garden, that they must, in spite of all our efforts, grow taller than the chimney-pots and swallow the house from sight, so we know and reverently acknowledge, that when any power in human politics has shown for any period of time any considerable activity, it will go on until it reaches to the sky."
Author: G.K. Chesterton

12. "It is the tame elephants who enjoy capturing the wild ones."
Author: George Bernard Shaw

13. "Hate is a strong word," I say, offering her some eggs, which she accepts."So is love. At least I didn't say that.""So is elephant, but people say that all the time," says Sophie, bounding back down the stairs and sending Jade and me into fits of laughter."
Author: Haley Fisher

14. "Oh, it's you," Curran's voice said quietly. "I thought it was an elephant."
Author: Ilona Andrews

15. "There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off."
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien

16. "I looked. George Shearing. And as always he leaned his blind head on his pale hand, all ears opened like the ears of an elephant, listening to the American sounds and mastering them for his own English summer's-night use. Then they urged him to get up and play. He did. He played innumerable choruses with amazing chords that mounted higher and higher till the sweat splashed all over the piano and everybody listened in awe and fright. They led him off the stand after an hour. He went back to his dark corner, old God Shearing, and the boys said, 'There ain't nothin left after that."
Author: Jack Kerouac

17. "On the other couch a women sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elephant. When I find a magazine and I lean back to start reading it, I can see the women watching me out of the corner of her eye. She moves closer to the child and she leans over and kisses his forehead. I know why she does it and i don't blame her."
Author: James Frey

18. "I love Agatha like uh huh. I love her like an elephant needs nasty rhinoplasty and plastic rhino sex."
Author: Jarod Kintz

19. "I want to see an elephant hunt down a man for the sole purpose of collecting his teeth, while a chorus of typewriters sings songs that praises the bananas for their wisdom, leadership, and their high levels of potassium."
Author: Jarod Kintz

20. "Took myself to Byculla. The area around the elephants is very soothing. I wish I were an elephant. I would be so composed."
Author: Jerry Pinto

21. "I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor."
Author: Jesse Ball

22. "Anything happening," she whispered."Aside from you blundering about like a lost elephant?" he asked, in the same low tone.She nodded, accepting the rebuke. "Aside from that."
Author: John Flanagan

23. "While I paid, they exchanged some pieties on how everyone has his or her own beliefs, et cetera. Then the woman said, "It's just like, ten people see a car accident, every single one is gonna tell the police something different" (a vivid way, I thought, of localizing the story about the blind men feeling an elephant)."Tell me which one of 'em gets out to help," the man said, "that's the one whose religion I'll listen to."
Author: John Jeremiah Sullivan

24. "Some team! The Chief was doing so many jobs alone. I'd fix on the Chief's raw, rope-burned palms or all the gray hairs collected in his sink, and I'd suffer this terrible side pain that Kiwi said was probably an ulcer and Ossie diagnosed as lovesickness. Or rather a nausea produced by the "black fruit" of love—a terror that sprouted out of your love for someone like rotting oranges on a tree branch. Osceola knew all about this black fruit, she said, because she'd grown it for our mother, our father, Grandpa Sawtooth, even me and Kiwi. Loving a ghost was different, she explained—that kind of love was a bare branch. I pictured this branch curving inside my sister: something leafless and complete, elephantine, like a white tusk. No rot, she was saying, no fruit. You couldn't lose a ghost to death."
Author: Karen Russell

25. "Old age...is a powerful disguise (Stella the elephant)"
Author: Katherine Applegate

26. "You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art ---it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants."
Author: Kurt Vonnegut

27. "She is the elephant's eyebrows," Evie whispered appreciatively. "Those jewels! How her neck must ache." "That's why Bayer makes aspirin," Mabel whispered back, and Evie smiled, knowing that even a socialist wasn't immune to the dazzle of a movie star."
Author: Libba Bray

28. "Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer."
Author: Lyall Watson

29. "Spoilers followI started reading the third act of Hamlet, and I got about two pages in when I realized there's no point.I am never going back to school.I am never going to the university.I am never going to watch wolves stalk through the northern forests or elephants graze on the savanna. I am never going to have sex or get married or raise a family. I'm never going to have a first apartment, a first house, a first car. I'm never"
Author: Megan Crewe

30. "Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine."
Author: Michael Koryta

31. "I know I should have ignored her. I should have called. Many times I almost did. I got as far as picking up the phone. Sometimes I even dialed your parents' number but then I wondered what I'd say to you. We had left it too long. How would we ever get around the silence, which was like an elephant sitting in the room?"
Author: Michael Robotham

32. "Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any."
Author: Michael Shannon

33. "???????? ?????? ?????????????????????????? ???? ?? ??? ???????????? ???????"Lord Ganesh of curved elephant trunk and huge body,Whose brilliance is equal to billions of suns in intensity,Always removes all obstacles from my endeavours truly,I respectfully pray to him with all my revered sincerity."- 31 -"
Author: Munindra Misra

34. "Elephants are useful friends: they have handles on both ends."
Author: Ogden Nash

35. "If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the elephants rule, or some other more compassionate species."
Author: Orson Scott Card

36. "You may control a mad elephant;You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger;Ride the lion and play with the cobra;By alchemy you may learn your livelihood;You may wander through the universe incognito;Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful;You may walk in water and live in fire;But control of the mind is better and more difficult."
Author: Paramahansa Yogananda

37. "Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room."
Author: Patricia Heaton

38. "They made him [Stephen] a little canvas boat, and it was thought that if he were obliged to wear two sea-elephant's bladders, blown up and attached to his person, he could not come to harm in such a placid sea; but after an unfortunate experience in which he became involved in his umbrella and it was found that the bladders buoyed up his meagre hams alone, so that only the presence of Babbington's Newfoundland preserved him, he was forbidden to go unaccompanied."
Author: Patrick O'Brian

39. "How much does an elephant weigh?"
Author: Rhonda Patton

40. "Ella is nervous," the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. "The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella."
Author: Rick Riordan

41. "The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants."
Author: Rob Marshall

42. "A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path, for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down."
Author: Rudyard Kipling

43. "Will you let me hold your hand as we outrun reason, brush past elephants, race up steps, tumble down hills, roll in the hay, leap over crumbling walkways, and dangle our legs over ledges?"
Author: Samantha Sotto

44. "Always be fearless. Walk like lion, talk like pigeons, live like elephants and love like an infant child."
Author: Santosh Kalwar

45. "Dear God. Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses to take care of."
Author: Sara Gruen

46. "I'm told I have the body of a god.""A Greek god, or one of those gods with the horse heads or elephant's legs coming out of their chests?" Alan asked. "Next time someone tells you that, ask them to specify."
Author: Sarah Rees Brennan

47. "I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney Lee's life of the poet. She died young--alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the crossroads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed. But she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh."
Author: Sir Sidney Lee

48. "I'm sorry," he says."What? Why?""You're fixing everything I set down." He nods at my hands, which are readjusting the elephant. "It wasn't polite of me to come in and start touching your things.""Oh, it's okay," I say quickly, letting go of the figurine. "You can touch anything of mine you want."He freezes. A funny look runs across his face before I realize what I've said. I didn't mean it like that.Not that that would be so bad."
Author: Stephanie Perkins

49. "Real magic is the hand around the bandsaw, the thrown spark in the powder keg, the dimension-warp linking you straight into the heart of a star, the flaming sword that burns all the way down to the pommel. Sooner juggle torches in a tar pit than mess with real magic. Sooner lie down in front of a thousand elephants."
Author: Terry Pratchett

50. "No one actually saw it land, which raised the interesting philosophical point: When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, but there is no one to hear it, does it - philosophically speaking - make a noise?"
Author: Terry Pratchett

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