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"Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and we're all precious in God's sight." »Jesse Louis Jackson
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"In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the white House for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the white House tells us." »Connie Chung to Johnny Carson
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"My thinking had been opened up wide in Mecca. I wrote long letters to my friends, in which I tried to convey to them my new insights into the American black man's struggle and his problems as well as the depths of my search for truth and justice. “I've had enough of someone else's propaganda,” I had written to these friends. “I am for truth, no matter who tells it. I am for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I am a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” The American white man's press called me the angriest Negro in America. I wouldn't deny that charge; I spoke exactly as I felt. I believe in anger. I believe it is a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself. I am for violence if non-violence means that we continue postponing or even delaying a solution to the American black man's problem. white man hates to hear anybody, especially a black man, talk about the crime that the white man perpetrated on the black man. But let me remind you that when the white man came into this country, he certainly wasn't demonstrating non-violence." »malcolm X, Autobiography of malcolm x
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"Away back in that time-in 1492-there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man. . . What did he find when he first arrived here Did he find a white man standing on the continent then . . . I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me." »Chitto Harjo
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"When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run." »Abraham Lincoln
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"Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.." »Turkish Proverb
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"When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him." »Hindustani Proverb
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"You type as fast as a one footed elephant." »Aaron J. Munzer
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"An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications." »John Herro
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"What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world the sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today Who slew them Where are our lands Who owns them....What law have I broken Is it wrong for me to love my own Is it wicked for me because my skin is red Because I am a Sioux because I was born where my father lived because I would die for my people and my country" »Sitting Bull
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"A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place." »Fontenelle
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"Not every ant which stays under the elephant's foot dies; the most powerful cannot always kill the weakest!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. (On relations with the US)" »Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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"To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention." »Kelvin Throop
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"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent." »Dr. Seuss
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"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the white Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'" »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Gabriel Have you ever heard of Harry Houdini Well he wasn't like today's magicians who are only interested in television ratings. He was an artist. He could make an elephant disappear in the middle of a theater filled with people, and do you know how he did that Misdirection." »Swordfish
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"Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured." »Indian Proverb
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"Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured." »Indian Proverb
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"Ignorant have always the tendency to see the donkey as the noble horse, to see the pig as the lion! Ignore the judgements of the ignorant, because ignorant makes the ant elephant; he declares the stupid as the intelligent; he carries the silly on his shoulders!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If everything isn't black and white, I say, “Why the hell not?" »John Wayne
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"I used to be Snow white -- but I drifted." »Mae West
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"Blinded by self-conceit and knowing nothing, Like elephant infatuate with passion, I thought within myself, I all things knew; But when by slow degrees I somewhat learnt By aid of wise preceptors, my conceit, Like some disease, passed off; and now I live In the plain sense of what a fool I am." »Bhartrihari
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"Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as white as my gown." »Jane Austen, Emma
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"It is not white hair that engenders wisdom." »Menander
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"A white wall is the fool's paper." »French Proverb
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"Red is grey and yellow white
We decide which is right
and which is an illusion." »Moody Blues, "Tuesday Afternoon"
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"Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face." »Clare Booth Luce
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