Elephant Quotes | Sayings on Elephant Conservation

You know…they say an elephant never forgets. What they don’t tell you is, you never forget an elephant.
– Bill Murray

When the elephants walk, the forests walks with them.
– Sudha Ramen

If size mattered, the elephant would be the king of the jungle.
– Rickson Gracie

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

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
– Samuel Richardson

No one in the world needs an elephant tusk but an elephant.
– Thomas Schmidt

Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
– John Donne

Elephants love reunions. They recognize one another after years and years of separation and greet each other with wild, boisterous joy. There’s bellowing and trumpeting, ear flapping and rubbing. Trunks entwine.
– Jennifer Richard Jacobson

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‘elephant’.
– Charlie Chaplin

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It’s in the apartment somewhere.
– Steven Wright

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
– Geraldine Brooks

Elephants can sense danger. They’re able to detect an approaching tsunami or earthquake before it hits.
– Jennifer Richard Jacobson

Elephants are big, powerful but fragile. We are dealing with a fragile eco-system. Look at the money involved in poaching. Man must give way to the elephant. We are not gong to allow anyone to come in the path of the elephant.
– Sharad A. Bobde

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

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I’ve ever met.
– Herb Caen

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

There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant.
– Edward Topsel

One of the many reasons I love elephants is that they celebrate births and mourn the dead. When an elephant gives birth, her herd gathers around her to protect her baby and they trumpet in celebration. It’s really quite extraordinary.
– Yashar Ali

As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
– Buddha

The elephant can survive only if forests survive.
– Mark Shand

I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant is faithful one hundred percent.
– Dr. Seuss

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephants except in a picture book?
– David Attenborough

If you do not have a memory like an elephant, leave impressions like one.

Only elephants should own ivory.
– Yao Ming

The elephant has just one basic gait: an ambling walk; elephants cannot run or jump like other animals.
– Richard D. Estes

The fact that Trump has lifted President Obama’s ban on elephant trophies being imported into the country is a devastating blow to the survival of these beautiful animals. It’s savage and pointless. It breaks my heart.
– Ricky Gervais

Compassion, social intelligence, decisiveness, patience, wisdom. These are all qualities found in elephants and not found in the people allowing them to be killed for trophies.
– Ellen Degeneres

God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.
– Max Lucado

They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end.
– Robert McCammon

But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.
– Lawrence Anthony

Dear people with no soul, stop shooting elephants.
– Russell Crowe

I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I’m just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it’s going to be my friend.
– Dianna Agron

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

Elephants are NOT commodities, or products.

Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.
– Mira Nair

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

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
– Jackie Kennedy

Very concerned to hear about the poacher who was killed by an elephant, then eaten by lions. Hope they didn’t get indigestion.
– Piers Morgan

They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies… the medium doesn’t matter, so long as it inspires you.
– Aaron Koblin

I was called ‘Dumbo,’ like the elephant, as a child because I couldn’t understand things at school.
– Anthony Hopkins

Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy.
– Thomas French

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

I loved her like elephants like remembering stuff. Those bastards just won’t let me forget and move on.
– Jarod Kintz

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