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So slowly the hot elephant hearts grow full of desire, and the great beasts mate in secret at last, hiding their fire.
Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.
As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.
The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant.
Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.
Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.
Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.
What ever happened to freak shows? Back in the twenties when elephant man was born at least he had a job waiting for him.
Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.
Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?
Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.
When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.
Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.
Elephants don't know anything about the world of ants; the peaks of mountains are oblivious of what is happening on the plains!
China cares about its reputation and doesn't want to be known as the nation whose preferences drove the extinction of elephants.
African elephants have long been thought of as a single species, but a critical mass of genetic studies now proves there are two.
Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.
The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.
God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.
Do not be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk in mud.
And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze About a star of deathless and painless peace But no astronomer can find where it is.
Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.
Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked.
So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns
In America you have the mouse now trying to sit down on the elephant, thinking that he's going somewhere. And it's - and it's absurd.
I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes, may your wife be plagued with runners in her hose.
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
I need to finish this scarf/shawl/blanket thing so I can start something for Emma- a hat, maybe, or a sweater for her stuffed elephant.
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.
The Arab awakening was like watching elephants fly: something you didn't expect, something you haven't seen before, "Wow, elephants fly."
The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem.
They can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What does that even mean?
I imagine the film ["300"] as if I was a Spartan and I had never seen an immortal or a Persian, or an elephant or a rhino for that matter.
In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
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.
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.
The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.
I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.
My biggest concern and main engagement with UNEP is focused on endangered species and illegal wildlife trade - mostly elephants, rhinos, etc.
Dear God. Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses to take care of.
Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.
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.
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.
We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.
The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.