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Elephants and grandchildren never forget. -- Andy Rooney
Elephants are contagious. -- Paul Eluard
Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people. -- Richard Leakey
Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms. -- Alex Shoumatoff
Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it. -- Michael Jackson
Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff and touch it. With their unparalleled sense of smell, the animals know exactly what they are going for. Vision is secondary. -- Frans de Waal
Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly. -- Wyndham Lewis
Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything. -- Peter Drucker
The world's strongest animals are plant eaters. Gorillas, Buffaloes, Elephants and me. -- Patrik Baboumian
Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget. -- Agatha Christie
Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind. -- Ingrid Newkirk
Elephants don't know anything about the world of ants; the peaks of mountains are oblivious of what is happening on the plains! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
When you hear "Action" do it.When you see Elephants,Believe in it.When you want to do something do it now. -- J.T.Abraham
Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them. -- Gloria Steinem
Elephants love to play around. They are very intelligent animals. They have a strong bond, at times stretching to several decades, with their mahouts. -- Mark Shand
Elephants seek food elsewhere if their route is blocked, and raiding crops and grain stores brings them into conflict with people, often resulting in deaths on both sides. -- Mark Shand
Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself. -- Clarence Day
I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants) -- Sara Gruen
Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans. -- James Lee
Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations. -- Bill Bryson
Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living one. The ivory. We must challenge this so-called 'trade' with all our might and shame on those who would condone it. -- Virginia McKenna
Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget. -- Arthur Laurents
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole. -- Samuel Richardson
Education isn't everything, for a start it isn't an elephant -- Spike Milligan
I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle. -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
When eating an elephant take one bite at a time. -- Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
I have a face like the behind of an elephant. -- Charles Laughton
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. -- Jackie Kennedy
If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid. -- Eddie Izzard
Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time. -- Paul Dickson
I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me. -- Noel Coward
Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant. -- Ritchie Blackmore
I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on. -- Betty White
We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second. -- Colin Mochrie
My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere. -- Steven Wright
Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself. -- Mark Shand
I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes. -- Al Sharpton
Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one. -- W. C. Fields
The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels. -- Richard Leakey
It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs. -- Jim Hightower
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark. -- Audrey Meadows
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures. -- Geraldine Brooks
When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers. -- Mahendra Singh Dhoni
The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes. -- Robert Novak
The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem. -- Li Bingbing
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
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? -- David Attenborough
I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are. -- K. A. Applegate
What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance... -- John Sedgwick
The Nature of Jade' is about a girl who works with the elephants at the zoo near her home, and who, through her involvement with them, becomes involved with a boy and his baby. -- Deb Caletti
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior. -- Graydon Carter
I don't know how many lions and leopards I've shot. I've shot two elephants, which was enough - never again. It's a melancholy and moving thing to hunt an elephant. It's like shooting an old man. -- Wilbur Smith
As far as my memory being reliable, at the risk of sounding like some sort of gorgeous two-headed monster with the voices of Dave Barry and Erma Bombeck, I do think that women, like elephants, remember everything and love peanuts. -- Julie Klausner
The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone. -- Ted Turner
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. -- Desmond Tutu
Illegal killings of elephants are being linked to organized crime and the funding of armed militia groups. Many consumers in Asia do not realize that by buying ivory, they are playing a role in the illegal wildlife trade and its serious consequences. -- Li Bingbing
And the political system is changing rapidly in this country, and we better realize that. The elephants or donkeys are not what younger people look to. They look at individual candidates' philosophy, and I think it's a different time and a different generation. -- Richard M. Daley
I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants. -- Peter Beard
I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you! -- Patrick Stewart
I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it. -- Trevor Rabin
I spent a lot of my life - 20 years of it - in war, training army trackers and commanding a tracker unit, and then in the Game Department, tracking lions and elephants and poachers. So I've spent literally thousands of hours tracking people or animals, and training others to do it. -- Allan Savory
I have done everything I have ever wanted to do. I have swum with tiger sharks, been charged by lions and elephants. I have been shot three times, chased by crocodiles and, God be praised, I've made enough money that I can continue to do all the things I want to for as long as I am able. -- Wilbur Smith
I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley. -- Cherie Lunghi
Women and elephants never forget. -- Dorothy Parker
Hannibal rode elephants into cartilage -- Mike Tyson
Women and elephants never forget an injury. -- Hector Hugh Munro
What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology? -- Roman Jakobson
I've known elephants with broken hearts, others with depression. -- Mark Shand
Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people and depressing elephants -- Cassandra Clare
The elephants are dancing on the graves of squeeling mice. -- Cream
When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits. -- T. Boone Pickens
Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants. -- Peter Senge
Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds. -- Rob Brezsny
Mother elephants in the circus cannot help their babies, but we can, -- Edie Falco
Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants. -- Yao Ming
Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink? -- Dr. Seuss
Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Some women are like elephants. I don't mean size, I mean they never forget. -- Laura Schlessinger
I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants. -- Anton Chekhov
If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun. -- Warren Buffett
Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget. -- William S. Burroughs
Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos. -- Elizabeth Wein
If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so. -- Pierre Corneille
The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled. -- Andrew Vachss
Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade. -- Merlin Mann
Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you. -- Bobby Knight
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you offer them some sugarcane, even elephants can do this, sometimes on the first try. -- Dharma Mittra
Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store. -- Jordan Sonnenblick
Noah's wife, who said to Noah, Don't let the elephants watch the rabbits. Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don't know why I was surprised to see elephants. -- Norris Church Mailer
Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains. -- John Cheever
It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal. -- Vin Diesel
A man would rather be trampled by elephants on fire than tell you he's just not that into you. -- Greg Behrendt
The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool. -- Ambrose Bierce
As Dr. Chiang puts it, â??while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls. -- Carlo M. Cipolla
Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked. -- Anna Quindlen
Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps. -- Leonard Bishop
I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others' backs at a circus. -- Gary Reilly
This New York thing is being blown out of proportion. Who gives a **** about New York when elephants are being killed? -- Lee Ryan
Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants. -- Neil Gaiman
So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns -- Jonathan Swift
China cares about its reputation and doesn't want to be known as the nation whose preferences drove the extinction of elephants. -- Wayne Pacelle
Leo couldn't help smiling. "That could be fun." "Fun" she said unhappily. "Blue elephants." "Blue elephants." "Kiss me you fool." "You fool. -- Rick Riordan
My biggest concern and main engagement with UNEP is focused on endangered species and illegal wildlife trade - mostly elephants, rhinos, etc. -- Yaya Toure
You see, in a world where elephants are pursued by flying men, people are just naturally going to want to get high. -- Judith Rascoe
Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer. -- Paul Shepard
To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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
Don't ask why the elephants wear such large shoes,And why the kangaroos are reborn kidnappers,And why the sailing birds are all Romantics. -- Robert Bly
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. -- Rob Marshall
Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars. -- Hunter S. Thompson
The stars you see at night are the unblinking eyes of sleeping elephants, who sleep with one eye open to best keep watch over us. -- Gregory Colbert
If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense. -- Lyall Watson
My circus train pulls through the nightFull of lions and trapeze artistsI'm done with elephants and clownsI want to run away and join the office -- Mike Doughty
You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes. -- Billy Wilder
We...we could be friends.' We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not. -- Neil Gaiman
There is no need for use of torture instruments such as ankush for controlling the elephants. We can do it with the help of verbal commands. -- Mark Shand
Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as interesting. -- Isabella Rossellini

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