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Quotes About Lion

The Lion was much amused to think that a Mouse could ever help him.
~ Aesop
Two people who are surprised by a lion in a jungle clearing will – unless one of them is eaten – be effectively bonded by what they have seen.
~ Alain de Botton
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
normally it's in like a lion, out like an even more annoyed lion, who is also drunk, but sometimes - just sometimes - the sun does come properly out and it feels like a benediction.
~ Jenny Colgan
a brave man is always frightened three times by a lion; when he first sees his track, when he first hears him roar and when he first confronts him.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Don't worry about me talking," he said. "I have a living to make. You know in Africa no woman ever misses her lion and no white man ever bolts." "I bolted like a rabbit," Macomber said. Now what in hell were you going to do about a man who talked like that, Wilson wondered.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Possessions can be, and most often are, a distraction from the real work of a knight's life. A lion doesn't own anything at all, yet we all know his power.
~ Ethan Hawke
She quickly interpreted him into her mythology but if, at first, he was a herbivorous lion, later he became a unicorn devouring raw meat.
~ Angela Carter
but a man in love is as restless as a lion and as impatient as a puppy.
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
He was so restless and he had so much energy, but it was destructive. Like it wasn't the sort of energy that got walls painted or the house cleaned. He just prowled like a lion in a cage.
~ Ann Cleeves
Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans.
~ Juan Williams
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
They trapped the Lion on Shamu's plain; They weighted his limbs with an iron chain; They cried aloud in the trumpet-blast, They cried, "The lion is caged at last!" Woe to the Cities of river and plain If ever the Lion stalks again! —Old Ballad.
~ Robert E. Howard
The people who get on in life are those who dream big dreams and then take whatever risks are necessary to bring their vision to life. They face their fears directly, get into the game and live their days with courage. They break through their fear doors, no matter how scared they feel. It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
~ Robin S. Sharma
volatile green lion in the central salt of Venus and distill. This spirit is the green lion the blood of the green lion Venus, the Babylonian Dragon that kills everything with its poison, but conquered by being assuaged by the Doves of Diana, it is the Bond of Mercury.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
Some twenty straw piles from mine slept the writer Walter Hasenclever, one of the founders of German expressionism.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
During his first stay in the infirmary he had immediately smelled out the fact that not less than eight of the thirty inmates were Nazis.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
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
Befriending a lion on its home turf was one thing, allowing it to roam free in Manhattan was quite another.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Before one accepts spirituality, astrology is very powerful, like a lion. Then when one enters into a deeper spiritual life, astrology becomes a tiny household cat.
~ Sri Chinmoy
I like autumn. The drama of it; the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of leaves. A dangerous time; of violent rages and deceptive calm, of fireworks in the pockets and conkers in the fist.
~ Joanne Harris
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
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
A brave man is frightened three times by a lion: when he first sees its track, when he first hears its roar, and when he first sees the lion in the flesh
~ Robert Ruark