Elephants Brainy Quotes

At independence, Tanzania had 350,000 elephants ... in 1987, there were only 55,000 elephants left. ~ Jakaya Kikwete

A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation. Elephants, for instance. Once molecules have learnt to compete and to create other molecules in their own image, elephants, and things resembling elephants, will in due course be found roaming around the countryside ... Some of the things resembling elephants will be men. ~ Peter Atkins

Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there are now more elephants. ~ Richard Leakey

I am beautiful for a brainy woman, brainy for a beautiful woman, but objectively speaking, neither beautiful nor brainy. ~ Rebecca Goldstein

The world's strongest animals are plant eaters. Gorillas, Buffaloes, Elephants and me. ~ Patrik Baboumian

He calls it speleogenesis by elephants - the creation of a cave by elephants. ~ Richard Preston

We finish our own story. The details of our journey are still a mystery. ~ Steven Cuoco

I was still excited. Big or small, elephants are elephants, after all. Just before we mounted, when I was sure no one could see me, I quickly kissed the shoulder of my beast and murmured, 'Hey, sweetie.'
'Hey, darlin'. That was Tonio, appearing suddenly by my shoulder. He gave me a laughing look that suggested he was either amused by or attracted to women who kiss elephants for no good reason. ~ Karen Lord

I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants. ~ Anton Chekhov

His eyes narrowed. "Is this where the elephants come in? Because there was something about elephants in that French book. ~ J. Kathleen Cheney

The "world" - the word always makes me think of a tortoise and elephants tirelessly supporting a gigantic disc. The elephants have no knowledge of the tortoise's role, the tortoise unable to see what the elephants are doing. And neither is the least aware of the world on their backs. ~ Haruki Murakami

Elephants live in a world where they know their actions affect those around them. We should all be more like elephants. ~ Stephanie Feldstein

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants. ~ Richard Leakey

Whenever elephants met men, elephants fared badly. Syria's final elephants were exterminated by twenty-five hundred years ago. Elephants were gone from much of China literally before the year 1 and much of Africa by the year 1000. Meanwhile, in India and southern Asia, elephants became the mounts of kings; tanks against forts, prisoners' executioners, and pincushions of arrows, driven mad in battle; elephants became logging trucks and bulldozers, and, as with other slaves, their forced labor requires beatings and abuse. Since Roman times, humans have reduced Africa's elephant population by perhaps 99 percent. African elephants are gone from 90 percent of the lands they roamed as recently as 1800, when, despite earlier losses, an estimated twenty-six million elephants still trod the continent. Now they number perhaps four hundred thousand. (The diminishment of Asian elephants over historic times is far worse.) The planet's menagerie has become like shards of broken glass; we're grinding the shards smaller and smaller. ~ Carl Safina

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

I was pretty shocked to learn that as many as 30,000 elephants are being killed every year to fuel the ivory trade, despite an international ban since 1989, and that 60% of forest elephants have already been wiped out. At this rate, experts say populations will become extinct in the next decade. No one needs ivory. ~ Ian Somerhalder

Be your own limited edition. ~ Steven Cuoco

It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal. ~ Vin Diesel

Create something good, by helping others feel good, while deriving mass appeal. ~ Steven Cuoco

The results you deserve depend on your will to make your success happen."

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If you offer them some sugarcane, even elephants can do this, sometimes on the first try. ~ Dharma Mittra

Discipline yourself so that all expectations, and inspiration, begin with your core values before relying on someone else's to better your life. ~ Steven Cuoco

You'll be seeing pink elephants, the way you drink."
"I find life thirsty work, old man," Phineas said equably. "And besides, what have you got against pink elephants? ~ Peter Maughan

Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly. ~ Wyndham Lewis

Elephants and grandchildren never forget. ~ Andy Rooney

Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the distance, trailing dust clouds. Cape buffalo snort and raise their horns and position themselves in front of their young. Giraffes stare over treetops, their huge brown eyes blinking, then lope away in seeming slow motion. But no elephants. ~ Thomas French

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. ~ Orson Scott Card

You are what it takes and matter the most when you decide to accomplish using your true potential. ~ Steven Cuoco

We know African and Asian elephants can interbreed, and they're separated by 5 million to 6 million years. ~ Hendrik Poinar

I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on. ~ Betty White

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

Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants. ~ Peter Senge

To time travel, you must move from where you are, or just close your eyes. ~ Steven Cuoco

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not. ~ Sara Gruen

Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything. ~ Peter Drucker

I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity. ~ Bob Barker

A brainy person does not abuse copyright; instead they respect it and uphold it. ~ Maximillian Degenerez

Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one. ~ W.C. Fields

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

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

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught. ~ Maximillian Degenerez

Elephants can sense danger. They're able to detect an approaching tsunami or earthquake before it hits. Unfortunately, Jack did not have this talent. The day his life was turned completely upside down, he was caught unaware. ~ Jennifer Richard Jacobson

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

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you. ~ Bobby Knight

Starting a business is easy, succeeding is a different story." Model Me VIP ~ Steven Cuoco

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels. ~ Richard Leakey

If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy. ~ Ezra Koenig

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

All deities are external manifestation of humanity's internal divinity. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Discover what you love to do the most, and strengthen it. ~ Steven Cuoco

My body is a reflection of who I am. ~ Steven Cuoco

It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner for a half hour and never once think about elephants. ~ John D. MacDonald

Seized ivory stocks around Africa are recycled back into illegal trade due to corruption. Ivory stocks should be burnt together with the hopes of traffickers for any "legal" way to allow them to slaughter our elephants. ~ Ofir Drori

Just in case you thought elephants were all sweetness, I can attest to the fact that this one had the time of her life scaring the bejeezus out of those dudes. ~ James Patterson

Go somewhere or go nowhere, the choice is yours. ~ Steven Cuoco

There are 13 Asian countries that still have elephants, and Elephant Family is looking to invest in further projects that will be the most critical for saving elephants while there is still time. ~ Mark Shand

Elephants are like humans. They are very smart, very logical. ~ Peter Beard

Elephants also have the necessary neural anatomy for long-term memories - their brains have especially large and complex frontal lobes, which are important for storing and retrieving memories of scent, touch, smell, and sound. There's little doubt that elephants have prodigious memories. ~ Virginia Morell

Gift yourself the opportunity to allow for your dreams to chase you down. ~ Steven Cuoco

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains. ~ John Cheever

In order to be creative rules cannot exist. The creative mind deserves no less. ~ Steven Cuoco

Gentlemen," returned Mr. Micawber, "do with me as you will! I am a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by the elephants- I beg your pardon; I should have said the elements. ~ Charles Dickens

Ever since Alexander went to India, Greek kings used elephants in war, mainly for prestige. They were rarely any use. Unlike horses, they were far too intelligent to risk injury merely at a man's urging. It was easy to panic elephants to hastily retreat, trampling their own army. ~ Isaac Asimov

Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget. ~ William S. Burroughs

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is much easier to maintain and bolster views that we currently hold than it is to create and develop new ones. Referred to as the confirmation bias, we seek out ~ Brainy Book Reviews

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget. ~ Agatha Christie

Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees! ~ Jules Verne

I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand. ~ E.B. White

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. ~ Thomas Sowell

Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive. ~ Karl Pilkington

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

It takes a strong individual to live passionately, and with having quality in their conviction, that sets the results one achieves. ~ Steven Cuoco

I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine. ~ Maximillian Degenerez

The safari was amazing, to actually see the elephants and the Lions up close and then right at the end to actually get in the cage with the Lion was one of the best moments of the tour. ~ Ugo Monye

Be the person that will take the first step towards personal success. You will be remembered for it. ~ Steven Cuoco

What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans. ~ Yahya Jammeh

I had to wait for someone special. Someone who would make my heart feel as if it's been trampled by elephants, thrown into the amazon, and eaten by piranhas. ~ Lisa Kleypas

You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't. ~ Samantha Fox

Love starts having troubles when the brains encroaches on its territory ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I've got a very nice staff here. People with patience, you know, and good temper, and not too brainy, because if you have people who are brainy, they are bound to be very impatient. ~ Agatha Christie

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

I went to University in 1991, and I remember, nobody thought of India. I remember conversations where people would laugh and say, "Do you have elephants on the road?" Nobody is saying that today. ~ Rahul Gandhi

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

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

Nothing in the world matters if you don't matter. ~ Steven Cuoco

We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

All around the edges of the platform where she sat, elephants stood patiently waiting for their breakfast. Occasionally, one would grunt or snort or flap its ears, but otherwise, they were as quiet as apparitions. ~ Dawn Reno Langley

The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool. ~ Ambrose Bierce

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. ~ Lindsey Graham

Religion is an experience, not a bunch of doctrines. ~ Abhijit Naskar

I have spent hours and hours watching elephants, and to come to understand what emotional creatures they are...it's not just a species facing extinction, it's massive individual suffering. ~ Mike Bond

In order to know the world from the outside, you must know yourself from the inside. ~ Steven Cuoco

I dare to believe in the beauty of my dreams, and I use my imagination to see them fulfilled. ~ Steven Cuoco

I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation. ~ Ellie Goulding

There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt about consumption. Perhaps it also feels unnatural. Mother Nature doesn't throw stuff away. Dead trees, birds, beetles and elephants are pretty quickly recycled by the system. ~ William Booth