Elephants Quotes

While shooting elephants in Africa, I found the tusks very difficult to remove. But in Alabama, the Tuscaloosa...

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don`t get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.

When I see actors talking about world peace, it makes my sphincter weak. There is a difference between Emma Thompson talking about a world catastrophe and - God! - Demi Moore talking about it. Goldie Hawn talking about the elephants has a different impact than Joanna Lumley. Sometimes Hollywood doesn`t seem a million miles from a Miss World contest. I just don`t have strong enough mental furniture to withstand it.

Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.

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.

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.

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.

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

Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people.

And the political system is changing rapidly in this country, and we better realize that. The elephants or donkeys are not what younger people look to. They look at individual candidates` philosophy, and I think it`s a different time and a different generation.

Women and elephants never forget an injury