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Quotes About Giraffe

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
If I could adopt any zoo animal, it would be a giraffe. I have always loved giraffes. They are so graceful and beautiful to watch.
~ Torrey DeVitto
Rhinoceros — battle unicorn Raccoon — trash panda Porcupine — stab rabbit Peacock — disco chicken Skunk — fart squirrel Zebra — tiger pony Giraffe — spotted stretch camel Bat — leather bird Reindeer — Christmas llama
~ Internet memes
I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
~ Sophia Loren
The tall form of the young professor of mental science discussing on the landing a case of conscience with his class like a giraffe cropping high leafage among a herd of antelopes
~ James Joyce
And here's the good part: He got a tongue could measure twenty-one inches. Bet Mrs. Giraffe likes that one.
~ Janet Evanovich
I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.
~ Joanna Lumley
NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.
~ Joanna Lumley
La naturaleza es más barroca; siempre le sobra o le falta algo, como al elefante o a la jirafa.
~ Unknown
You have to understand – there is a romance to Africa. You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the hand of God. You watch the slow lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heat, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.
~ Jodi Picoult
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?
~ Isak Dinesen
Antonina woke in the night to help midwife an animal like a giraffe (always tricky because the mother gives birth standing up, the calf falls headfirst, and the mother doesn't want help anyway). This
~ Diane Ackerman
I thought 'Deep Throat' was a movie about a giraffe.
~ Bob Hope