Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.

Rick Riordan

Ella is nervous,” the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. “The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella.

Sara Gruen

I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

Sara Gruen

Life goes on with fragile normalcy.

William Faulkner

Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.

Saint Francis de Sales

Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.

Wyndham Lewis

Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.

Yaya Toure

My biggest concern and main engagement with UNEP is focused on endangered species and illegal wildlife trade - mostly elephants, rhinos, etc.

Yaya Toure

Currently poaching threatens the very existence of the African Elephant, and my worry is that if we do not act NOW, we could be looking at a future in which this iconic species is wiped out.

Sarah Dessen

I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out." "So what happened?" "I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all,

Ken Hutcherson

When you're in the pits, all the faith in the world won't get you out of it. But just a little faith in God will get you through it.

Mark Foley

It`s an absolute abomination. Whether intentional corruption or mismanagement , it seems like FEMA is just a money pit.

Lisi Harrison

I completely remember the horror I felt when my pits started getting hairy. I would walk with my arms pressed against my sides.

Phil Donahue

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

Beth Moore

The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave.

Daniel Woodrell

I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.

Andy Warhol

That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries-you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more or less. Exactly. One-seed fruits really bother me for that reason. That's why I'd always rather eat raisins than prunes. Prune pits are even more imposing than cherry pits.

Robert Herrick

Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.

Alephonsion Deng

I think it is important for my self-esteem to be able to tell the stories. I think if I'm helping myself, than I'm helping other people.

Kiki Vandeweghe

He wants to be helping his team. Let's just leave it at that.

DeAndre Rice

Here, he's more humble. He's taking his time with us and learning from the mistakes he made. And he's helping us to be together and play as a team.

Bob Cole

He's a lot better from where he was last year. I think all the reps he is getting are helping him out. He's played more than he thought he was going to play.

Dana Brown

He's a local guy, so that's helping us getting him signed.

Schoolboy Q

I think we - the way to stop anything violent or anything wrong is by really just paying attention to your own circle. You only can help the world by helping the people next to you.

Marilyn Praisner

Unless we have been requested, it is not helping to send these individuals.

Anthony Fauci

You help someone's health, and you prevent them from infecting others.

Nate Robinson

I'd like to say thanks to Spud for helping me out because I think that put me over the hump.