“Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.”
― Aaron Hill
“I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in ‘The Lion King.’ I wanted to sing ‘The Circle of Life.’”
― Aaron Lazar
“I got to know Elton John’s older music by learning to like his newer stuff. ‘The Lion King?’ That’s what I like.”
― Aaron Schock
“’A living dog is better than a dead lion.’ Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don’t care anything about it.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.”
― Adam Savage
“After World War II, scientific research in the U.S. was well supported. In the 1960s, when I came to America, the sky was the limit, and this conducive atmosphere enabled many of us to pursue esoteric research that resulted in America winning the lion’s share of Nobel Prizes.”
― Ahmed Zewail
“Even if everything its detractors say about Fox were true, the most liberal of liberal attitudes would be that one would get credit for being in the lion’s den.”
― Alan Colmes
“Our logo for Lanvin is a mother and a daughter. I’ve always said, ‘It’s not a lion, and it’s not a horse. It’s a mother and a daughter.’ I find the logo very emotional.”
― Alber Elbaz
“For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”
― Alexander the Great
“The holder of authority is like the rider on a lion – he is envied for his position, but he well knows his position.”
― Ali ibn Abi Talib
“My mum loves cats so I took her to see the lion cubs which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn’t scared at all and went straight over and kissed one on the mouth! She thought they were just like her pets at home.”
― Amanda Holden
“People always want to see that, the young lion going to take the old lion out.”
― Amir Khan
“I think I’d like to be a lion tamer, actually. That – that would provide the most audience entertainment if something went really badly.”
― Andy Serkis
“In boxing, it is about the obsession of getting the most from yourself: wanting to dominate the world like a hungry young lion.”
― Anthony Joshua
“The strong creation created by God in the world is not the lion, not the elephant, not the tiger – the girl.”
― Arunachalam Muruganantham
“Because boys tend to dominate the narrative for who’s at risk, sometimes they dominate the lion’s share of services, too.”
― Ayanna Pressley
“At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.”
― Baltasar Gracian
“I’ve eaten sheep’s eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.”
― Bear Grylls
“As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don’t need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this kind of transformation in the Middle East.”
― Benjamin Netanyahu
“After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren’t all that many parts for lions.”
― Bert Lahr
“That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren’t many parts for lions.”
― Bert Lahr
“Of course my uncle was a giant, but my dad, in particular, had the house filled with these great Dixieland jazz stars, really the best of them: Henry Red Allen, Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith, Buster Bailey, Cutty Cutshall, Tyree Glenn, Zutty Singleton. These are all big names in the Dixieland world.”
― Billy Crystal
“When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the ‘Lion King’ soundtrack. It’s really odd, but it’s true.”
― Blake Lively
“I always have my journal with me. It was handmade by a guy at the San Telmo market in Buenos Aires. If you go there he can make you one. It’s leather and bronze and I’m able to replace the paper when it runs out. It has a lion on the cover that I say is there to protect my thoughts.”
― Blake Mycoskie
“During the 2005 Bush tax holiday, corporations didn’t bring back the billions they stashed overseas to build new factories, increase wages, or create more jobs. The lion’s share of that windfall went to CEO raises and stock buybacks for investors on Wall Street.”
― Bob Menendez
“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.”
― Branford Marsalis
“I’ve never read ‘The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe,’ but his later works are about whether God is real.”
― Brian Fallon
“My dad is a little bit of a softy. I mean, he, like, cries at ‘The Lion King,’ and I’m kind of, like, his little girl.”
― Brooke Hogan
“’The Lion’ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‘Let’s try to make a story about it.’”
― C. S. Lewis
“What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain’t going to happen. That’s the type of person that I am. I’m that lion.”
― Cam Newton
“To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior’s spirit. It takes power to do that.”
― Carlos Castaneda
“The severity of punishments ought to be relative to the state of the nation itself. Stronger and more easily felt impressions have to be made on a people only just out of the savage state. A lightning strike is needed to stop a fierce lion who is provoked by a gunshot.”
― Cesare Beccaria
“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.”
― Chanakya
“Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.”
― Charles de Gaulle
“I don’t mind going into a liberal lion’s den. That’s where you test yourself.”
― Charles Krauthammer
“I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.”
― Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
“The ‘Chronicles of Narnia’ have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread ‘Aslan’ as ‘Alsatian’ and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!”
― Chris Riddell
“All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.”
― Christian Lous Lange
“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.”
― Christopher Judge
“When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It was just one big tent, and he was a lion tamer. He didn’t have any kids, but the bit was that I would dress up as his son in an identical outfit.”
― Christopher Walken
“A lion’s work hours are only when he’s hungry; once he’s satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.”
― Chuck Jones
“Have you seen the Broadway version of ‘The Lion King?’ Go and see it. That’s where the future of musical is.”
― Colm Wilkinson
“I’m a lion. I’m not tough, but I am strong. I’m definitely not a wallflower.”
― Cressida Bonas
“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.”
― Crystal Eastman
“I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.”
― Daddy Yankee
“ISIS targeting the U.S. military is like a sheep targeting a lion.”
― Dakota Meyer
“When I got the first e-mail suggesting we cast Zooey Deschanel in ‘New Girl’, I thought, ‘That’s exactly right.’ In the pilot of ‘Modern Family’, when Cam is holding up the baby with the ‘Lion King’ theme, it was very clear we had something special.”
― Dana Walden
“It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.”
― Daniel Defoe
“We get stressed out now by having somebody yell at us in the office or by making a mistake or by losing a bunch of money. These aren’t problems that our hunter-gatherer ancestors had. They’d get stressed if a lion came to them or a boulder was rolling towards their living quarters. That kind of stress provoked the fight or flight response.”
― Daniel Levitin
“I have the heart of lion.”
― David Haye
“The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.”
― David Whyte
“Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power… but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding… The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak.”
― David Whyte
“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.”
― Dirk Benedict
“I refuse to be outworked, and I consider myself to have the heart of a lion.”
― Draymond Green
“I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from ‘The Lion King’ – and it’s a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.”
― Eddie Redmayne
“Once I climbed into a mountain lion’s cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.”
― Edward Hoagland
“Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.”
― Elizabeth I
“It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.”
― Elizabeth Kenny
“Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.”
― Ellen G. White
“I loved ‘A Lion in the Meadow’ by Margaret Mahy.”
― Emma Healey
“The lion’s share of the damage to the Irish economy was the fault of domestic, economic, and financial mismanagement.”
― Enda Kenny
“The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on ‘Sea Lion’ and that’s what I tried to make happen for ‘Metals,’ which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.”
― Feist
“Though every nation must do its part to address climate change, developed nations are responsible for the lion’s share of carbon pollution in the atmosphere, and they have an obligation to help developing nations transition to a sustainable future.”
― Frances Beinecke
“My son smelled like a cinnamon bun, and that smell entered into my biological being, and it became an imperative that I keep him alive at all costs, so then there’s this monster – this tiger or lion – that comes forward in you to protect them. And it doesn’t stop. It doesn’t matter if they become men or women.”
― Frances McDormand
“Even when I went to the Lion’s Head in the Village, where all you journalists would hang out, I was always peripheral. I was never really part of anything except the classroom. That’s where I belonged.”
― Frank McCourt
“It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.”
― Frank Ocean
“A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they’re all very different.”
― Frans Lanting
“There’s no doubt that ‘Lion’ is an audience pleaser. I mean, I went to a lot of research screenings all over, in London and America and Australia, and the results were ridiculous, and the crowds were… they just loved the movie, so for me, my job is done.”
― Garth Davis
“Now my grandmother, who used to want sons, says that she does not really want boys anymore. She says I’m the lion of the family.”
― Geeta Phogat
“I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.”
― George Bernard Shaw
“When I was about ten years old, I was brought to London to watch a production of ‘The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.’ I think it was at Sadler’s Wells in maybe 2000. I watched it because my school was putting on a production of it, and it was the first school play that I was able to audition for a speaking part.”
― George Blagden
“An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.”
― George Chapman
“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.”
― Giorgos Seferis
“There’s an expression in Persian, ‘to play with the lion’s tail.’ I wasn’t what Iranian society wanted me to be – a good girl. I played with the lion’s tail.”
― Golshifteh Farahani
“Every dog is a lion at home.”
― Henry George Bohn
“Going into a locker room that’s not even yours to begin with is certainly like you’re entering the lion’s den.”
― Hilary Knight
“I have not seen ‘The Lion King.’ I don’t do black folklore. And I’m black.”
― Hilton Als
“I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn’t shut up!”
― Ingrid Bergman
“A lion is called a ‘king of beasts’ obviously for a reason.”
― Jack Hanna
“A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.”
― Jacki Weaver
“The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion’s share of their revenues.”
― James Surowiecki
“’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.”
― James Wolcott
“Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.”
― Jean de La Fontaine
“Tyria’s a big world. We get a grand tour in ‘Ghosts of Ascalon.’ We’re in Divinity’s Reach, we’re in Lion’s Arch, we’re in Ebonhawke, we’re in the Dragon’s Land, we’re in Ascalon. We’re basically hitting a lot of the major human and charr locations.”
― Jeff Grubb
“I’m a middle child, so I have middle-child syndrome. With a middle child, you always have to take in everything and adjust and maybe compromise a little bit so you’re able to see both sides of an issue. I’m also a Leo – I love astrology – so that affected me, just being a lion.”
― Jessica Williams
“Fake eyelashes can instantly give me a more dramatic look and also help to accentuate my eyes, which are a focal point to achieving the Lion Babe look.”
― Jillian Hervey
“To be honest, I’m in love with denim. It hasn’t been my go-to Lion Babe look, but it’s very much my ‘everyday Jillian look.’ I am in denim every single day.”
― Jillian Hervey
“Eyeliner is a go-to for me, and gold has always been a color that I really like. It’s reminiscent of a lion; it’s a strong color.”
― Jillian Hervey
“I feel like my Lion Babe look is an embellishment of my everyday look – it’s definitely more extravagant and more artistic.”
― Jillian Hervey
“When I first started Lion Babe, I wore a lot of denim to perform in because I had a limited closet. A lot of the time, I was in cutoff shorts – either dark or light denim – and then I would pair them with whatever top I had.”
― Jillian Hervey
“I have a lot of lion jewellery and lion art. I also love crystals.”
― Jillian Hervey
“I wasn’t even singing when we first started Lion Babe, so my voice has only gotten stronger.”
― Jillian Hervey
“My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion.”
― Jimmy Smith
“I grew up in a small hotel with many rooms, so when I became aware of ‘The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,’ I inspected all the wardrobes, sure one had to be a portal to another world. I was also a true believer in faeries, and perhaps still am.”
― Jo Beverley
“Across society, the lion’s share of caring responsibility – whether for children or elderly relatives – still falls on women.”
― Jo Swinson
“I’m a mother lion when it comes to protecting my children.”
― Joanna Cassidy
“It’s an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet.”
― Joanna Lumley
“There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion’s share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.”
― Joel Fuhrman
“I try to think of myself as a lion, bringing down the kill, controlling the jungle. A lion controls his jungle.”
― John Daly
“Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.”
― John Dryden
“In ancient African cultures, a young man was not considered a full member of the tribe, an elder, a man. He couldn’t marry and he couldn’t own land until he had killed a lion. It was symbolic.”
― John Eldredge
“The lion’s share of what I listened to in the Eighties, what really affected me, was coming from Britain.”
― John Grant
“I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.”
― John Gutfreund
“The lion is, however, rarely heard – much more seldom seen.”
― John Hanning Speke
“I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.”
― John Steinbeck
“I was a creative player, but I got some bad injuries early on and I decided that if this was a jungle we were playing in then it’s better to be a lion than a lamb.”
― Johnny Giles
“Yep, I’ll stay a Brisbane Lion, you’ve heard it first.”
― Jonathan Brown
“At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there’s a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.”
― Josh Lucas
“Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans.”
― Juan Williams
“When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.”
― Julie Taymor
“I don’t have an explosive temper. People seem to think that – maybe somewhere lives the lion in my cage. But I’m actually kind of goofy.”
― Juliette Lewis
“England have always had individually strong players, and I am a huge fan of Stevie Gerrard, who has the heart of a lion and is the icon of the modern footballer with his ability to attack and defend so well.”
― Kaka
“I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he’d had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision.”
― Kathryn Harrison
“Most wives look at me the way lame deer look at a hungry lion.”
― Katie Hopkins
“Well, you know, I played Mufasa in the workshop of The Lion King.”
― Keith David
“If you look at it, ‘The Lion King’ is very similar to ‘Hamlet.’”
― Kelly Asbury
“My time at Barnard was fun but stressful. I transferred there from the acting conservatory at NYU, and my Rolling Around On the Floor Pretending to Be a Lion classes didn’t translate into many academic credits.”
― Lauren Graham
“’Lauv’ comes from the Latvian word for lion, and my mom’s side of the family is from Latvia – it’s a place I’ve been probably 15 times or more. I’m also a Leo, and my real name, Ari, means lion.”
― Lauv
“I love taking challenges, as my name Leander means ‘lion’s heart.’”
― Leander Paes
“I’ve got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.”
― Les Dawson
“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.”
― Lorne Michaels
“If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
“I have always been ‘small town.’ I was born outside of Philadelphia, so we lived on a 20-acre farm and then spent two years in a log cabin on the Appalachian Trail. We lived outside of York in Red Lion, which is an amazing town. It’s perpetually 1982 in that town.”
― Lzzy Hale
“With time, art developed Bip, my alter ego. He was not only a lion tamer or a street musician but a soldier revealing the tragedy of ephemeral life.”
― Marcel Marceau
“I know, it’s weird that I’ve never done a musical. I turned down two of them. ‘The Lion King’ and ‘The Producers.’ I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess?”
― Mario Cantone
“I would love to go into an animal’s dream – like a lion’s or a cat’s. I’m sure that’s pretty awesome.”
― Marion Cotillard
“I’ve loved musicals ever since I saw ‘The Lion King’ on Broadway.”
― Mark Indelicato
“If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that’s what I’d be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.”
― Marlon Wayans
“People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.”
― Marsha Norman
“Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.”
― Martin Amis
“Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.”
― Martin Amis
“The SEC got more than 100 rules to write under Dodd-Frank, the lion’s share of all the agencies. And we’ve moved, I think, with a tremendous sense of urgency. But it takes a long time to write rules and get them approved by a five-member commission.”
― Mary Schapiro
“Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion’s share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do.”
― Mary Schapiro
“My mum always said I devoured ‘The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe’ at the tender age of four, but frankly, I think that might be a touch of maternal exaggeration.”
― Matt Haig
“If you are the person who gets the lion’s share of attention in good times, guess what: you get the lion’s share of attention in bad times.”
― Matt Lauer
“I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.”
― Maya Angelou
“In 2006, I hung out with The Carter Center as they monitored the Palestinian elections. Nobody thought Hamas would win. Hamas did not think Hamas could win. The lion’s share of folks I spoke to who were voting for them were not actually voting for Hamas but against Fatah.”
― Maysoon Zayid
“I moved at age 22 to Montana to be able to walk in really wild woods, where the chances of being killed by a bear or mountain lion are not zero.”
― Michael Finkel
“One time, I got to go play with lion cubs in Johannesburg. It was amazing. But it’s difficult when you’re on the road. We’re always playing tennis, and there’s a lot of pressure. So sometimes you don’t get to do the things you’d like to do, because the priority is tennis.”
― Milos Raonic
“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.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“When you are challenging for the world title, you’ve got to go into the lion’s den to try and rip that belt away from the champion.”
― Naseem Hamed
“The thing that everyone remembers about ‘Bambi’ is that moment. ‘The Lion King,’ took it to quite an extreme because it was an action sequence: his father was killed in a wildebeest stampede – I related, because mine was, too.”
― Nathan Lane
“Justice Scalia was a lion of the law. Agree or disagree with him, all of his colleagues on the bench shared his wisdom and his humor. And like them, I miss him.”
― Neil Gorsuch
“I did have my beginnings in doo-wop music; I had a group called the Tokens in Brooklyn. They went on, of course, to do ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ and a lot of other great things. I went on as a soloist. But I still love doo-wop music.”
― Neil Sedaka
“I was once, I think, bitten on the nose by a lion cub.”
― Newt Gingrich
“One of the stories that inspires me is that it is documented that a honey badger killed a lion in a one-on-one.”
― Nick Cummins
“There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.”
― Norman Ralph Augustine
“Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.”
― Oliver Herford
“I had this maroon ‘Lion King’ tracksuit that my mum couldn’t take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.”
― Oliver Jackson-Cohen
“I’ve grown up on American songwriters my whole life – listening to Paul Simon and Bob Dylan and people like John Prine – you know, classic, real songwriters. They’ve been the lion’s share of what I’ve really focused on as a writer and as influences, too.”
― Passenger
“Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?”
― Patrick Henry
“Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain’s ready room died it was always a sad moment.”
― Patrick Stewart
“You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.”
― Patrick Swayze
“Mushrooms provide a vast array of potential medicinal compounds. Many mushrooms – such as portobello, oyster, reishi and maitake – are well-known for these properties, but the lion’s mane mushroom, in particular, has drawn the attention of researchers for its notable nerve-regenerative properties.”
― Paul Stamets
“Lion’s mane may be our first ‘smart’ mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population.”
― Paul Stamets
“Lion’s mane mushrooms are not your classic-looking cap-and-stem variety. These globular-shaped mushrooms sport cascading teeth-like spines rather than the more common gills.”
― Paul Stamets
“I’m for conservation, but it’s mostly a con. That’s the trouble. It’s sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.”
― Peter Beard
“An injured lion still wants to roar.”
― Randy Pausch
“I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him.”
― Ray Lewis
“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.”
― Roberto Benigni
“A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.”
― Salman Khan
“Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.”
― Samuel Gompers
“We women make the lion’s share of household purchases in this country. We ourselves drive billions of dollars a year in sales.”
― Sandra Tsing Loh
“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.”
― Sanjay Dutt
“When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.”
― Saskya Pandita
“I carry around this little lion named Leo, which I’ve had for as long as I can remember.”
― Shawn Mendes
“I’m not a very violent dude, and if something can be settled without any physicality, I’m always in favor of that. But if somebody comes near my kids, the atavistic crazy lion comes out.”
― Stephen Moyer
“In Greek myth, a chimera is a creepy combination of lion, goat, dragon – in humans, chimeras are one person who contains two sets of DNA. That’s right. One person comes up in tests as two different people.”
― Susannah Cahalan
“Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians – except for the occasional mountain lion steak.”
― Ted Nugent
“The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
“I must have written 15 lyrics for ‘The Lion King,’ and only five or six were used. Some were scenes that disappeared, some were earlier versions of songs that didn’t work, or else the characters changed.”
― Tim Rice
“I traveled a lot, but we didn’t hire nannies to take care of our kids. We were both very hands-on. My wife did the lion’s share because I traveled a lot, but it was important to us to do our best.”
― Timothy B. Schmit
“I was in Australia in 1983 and did a stunt in a lion’s cage.”
― Tiny Tim
“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.”
― Tippi Hedren
“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.”
― Tippi Hedren
“We have a lion, tiger, liger, which is the father is a lion and the mother is a tiger, black and spotted leopard, mountain lion, Asian leopard cats. Weve got a tremendous number of the exotic feline.”
― Tippi Hedren
“One lion thinks it’s just hilarious to tackle us. He’s very funny about it… and we always know when it will happen.”
― Tippi Hedren
“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.”
― Tippi Hedren
“We had a lion that was living in somebody’s basement outside of Branson, Missouri.”
― Tippi Hedren
“I’m in ‘Madagascar 2.’ I’m Testy the Lion. The franchise moves to Africa, and Bernie Mac is also in the film. I loved working for Dreamworks on that film.”
― Tom Lister, Jr.
“The more we allow Republicans to concentrate the lion’s share of wealth in the hands of a few, the more power these wealthy few will have. And they will use this power to continue rewriting the rules of both our economy and our political system in their favor.”
― Tom Steyer
“Ray Mercer has the heart of a lion and a great chin.”
― Tommy Morrison
“When a lion doesn’t get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.”
― Uday Kotak
“Natasha Lyonne is fantastic on Twitter. She posts hilarious pictures. I don’t even know where she finds some of them; it’ll be like a random picture of a chinchilla kissing a lion or Bill Murray and Jim Belushi out on a boat or something.”
― Uzo Aduba
“The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba’s father gets trampled.”
― Vanessa Hudgens
“A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.”
― Vernon Howard
“An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.”
― Walter Winchell
“I’ve eaten lion, leopard, crocodile, python. I don’t recommend lion. It tastes exactly like when a tomcat comes into your house and sprays. Snake and crocodile are great – a cross between lobster and chicken.”
― Wilbur Smith
“I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father’s livestock while he was away on holiday.”
― Wilbur Smith
“This first print run of the first edition of my first novel, ‘When The Lion Feeds.’ back in 1964, is so rare it can fetch several thousand pounds at auction. I always wanted to be an author, and I decided to write about what I knew.”
― Wilbur Smith
“Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.”
― Will Cuppy
“I first read ‘The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe’ when I was a kid. And I think it was read to me. Me and my sister both had a copy and loved the books.”
― Will Poulter
“Seeing the actual ‘The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe’, I absolutely loved it. It became one of my favourite films. It was a real Christmas classic, and it was one of the most popular films ever in British history.”
― Will Poulter
“What I hope is that I don’t just become ‘Peter from ‘The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.’ I want to try and do something else to be a good actor and a respected actor.”
― William Moseley
“I used to love ‘The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,’ and I can still remember listening to them before I would fall asleep. I can remember the first ten minutes of the book perfectly, but whether I knew the rest of it was slightly more dicey.”
― William Moseley
“You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.”
― William Tecumseh Sherman
“It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.”
― Winston Churchill
“The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.”
― Woody Allen
“If a man puts a lion’s family in jeopardy, what would it do? Would it enjoy fighting? Of course it wouldn’t, but it’s going to fight.”
― Yoel Romero
“Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone’s mastered their own domain… And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.”
― Zac Brown
“New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you’re going to the center of the world, the lion’s den.”
― Zubin Mehta
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