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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.

Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.

Quotes by Lyall Watson

I feel like, if there's an elephant in the room, I'd really like to start off by introducing the elephant in the room. And sometimes it's funny.

Quotes by Louis Theroux

Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.

Quotes by Lindsey Graham

Like the proverbial elephant in the room, American anti-Europeanism has loomed large for so long that few trouble to notice it.

Quotes by Linda Colley

We always do a white elephant gift exchange on Christmas Eve, but my mom always gets really nice gifts for it. And we hang out in our PJs on Christmas Day.

Quotes by Lacey Chabert

How many African American champions have there been over the course of WWE's history? It's something that was the elephant in the room. Nobody wanted to talk about it, but it was important for us to address it.

Quotes by Kofi Kingston

I don't like the idea that I'm a one-trick pony, even if I am! No matter what else I do, I have to make sure that 'Elephant' isn't Tame Impala's biggest song anywhere.

Quotes by Kevin Parker

I like my stationery to be funnier, like, 'Here's my note, and it's an elephant with a lady smoking a cigarette on top.'

Quotes by Kate Spade

I've been told I looked like I swallowed an elephant or a pig, whichever was more fitting that day.

Quotes by Katelyn Ohashi

In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.

Quotes by Karen Maitland

'Bowling For Columbine' and 'Gus Van Sant's Elephant' really intrigued me. With 'Bowling For Columbine', I think Michael Moore just gave the perfect exploration of both the mass media interpretation of the event and going into the minds of these...

Quotes by Josh Trank

Prior to Elephant I'd taken about six years of acting classes in Portland, but there's not a huge market there. The only thing we have is commercial stuff, and that didn't really appeal to me. So this is really a...

Quotes by John Robinson

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.

Quotes by John Owen

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

Quotes by John Donne

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

Quotes by Jackie Kennedy

My first yak was fairly quiet and looked a noble steed with my Mexican saddle and gay blanket among rather than upon his thick black locks. His back seemed as broad as that of an elephant, and with his slow,...

Quotes by Isabella Bird

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

Quotes by Herb Caen

Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they're not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In 'Elephant' we...

Quotes by Gus Van Sant

There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one...

Quotes by Gus Van Sant

A few dozen changes to the genome of a modern elephant - to give it subcutaneous fat, woolly hair and sebaceous glands - might suffice to create a variation that is functionally similar to the mammoth. Returning this keystone species...

Quotes by George M. Church

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these elephant quotes cover?
They use elephants both literally and as a figure of speech, including the familiar phrase for an unspoken, obvious problem left unaddressed.
Is there a quote about elephants and memory?
Yes, one jokes about recalling everything the way an elephant supposedly can, playing on the folk belief that the animal never forgets.
Does any quote address hunting elephants?
One does, reflecting soberly on having hunted the animal in the past and finding no satisfaction in it afterward.
Are these quotes respectful toward the animal?
Yes, even the hunting-related reflection treats the elephant with a kind of melancholy respect rather than celebration.
Where can I find more animal and nature quotes?
See Animal Quotes or Wildlife Quotes for related themes.

One entry reflects, with real regret, on having once hunted the animal and finding little worth celebrating in it, a sober note among the wonder. Explore more in Nature Quotes or Wildlife Quotes.