Lion Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

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

Every dog is a lion at home.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.

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.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.