Lion Quotes

My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion.

We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.

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

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.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

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.

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.

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.

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

Yep, I'll stay a Brisbane Lion, you've heard it first.

Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

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

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.

You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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