Lion Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

One lion thinks it's just hilarious to tackle us. He's very funny about it... and we always know when it will happen.

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.

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

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.

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.

Well, you know, I played Mufasa in the workshop of The Lion King.

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.

There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.