- Place
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Elephant Quotes
Quotes on elephants, memory, and quiet moments of reflection.
These quotes use elephants both as literal animals and as a familiar shorthand for something everyone notices but avoids naming, alongside the folk belief that elephants never forget. The theme connects with Animal Quotes.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Nov 07, 2020
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Whether by my own volition or otherwise, I was given a year-and-a-half break after Dad passed. It was kind of like an elephant in the room, and everyone was giving me space, whether I wanted it or not.
- Man
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Heaven
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I did a film in Nairobi, Kenya called 'The Last Elephant,' with John Lithgow, Isabella Rosallini, and James Earl Jones. So I was in seventh heaven, alright? About a year later I get a call from my agent and he says they want to see you for this project called Candyman. I thought he was joking so I hung up.
- Nothing
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It's nice to have an elephant in the room. There's nothing more helpful than something everybody's thinking about.
- Man
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The night before 'The Elephant Man' opened, we had a sleepover for 12 kids. Being organized is the key.
- Never
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We are all a tiger with feelings. An elephant who never forgets. We are tiger, panther, monkey - we are all of these things, all of the life rhythms.
- Matter
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
- Lion
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.
- God
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Time
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I couldn't put a finger on an exact date, and this routine relates simply to the aphorism 'How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.'
- Never
- |
- Nov 07, 2020