Lion Quotes

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.

Right now I'm looking at a liger out my bedroom window. He's half lion and half tiger. And he's absolutely beautiful. His name is Patrick.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.

I never use a score when conducting my orchestra. Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.

'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.

The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.

People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. I essentially called my mother, The Lion. She's fierce and she's proud. I'd like to think some of that rubbed off on me.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt.

After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions.

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

These are the animals that are the reason why you don't see old animals in the wild. You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.

I have this huge lion tattoo embossed on my arm. I was a little worried as to how we would cover it up. But my makeup man covered the tattoo with makeup. It took close to two hours.

Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.

It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet.