Lion Quotes

‘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.’ – Alexander the Great

‘It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.’ – Elizabeth Kenny

‘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.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘A lion is called a ‘king of beasts’ obviously for a reason.’ – Jack Hanna

‘A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.’ – Vernon Howard

‘With each new day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time, a lion stirs and stretches, knowing he must outrun the fastest gazelle or starve. It’s no different for the human race. Whether you consider yourself a gazelle or a lion, you have to run faster than others to survive.’ – Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

‘To beat a lion, you have to have the heart of a lion.’ – Keith Thurman

‘I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.’ – John Steinbeck

‘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.’ – Carlos Castaneda

‘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.’ – Lorne Michaels

‘An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.’ – Walter Winchell

‘Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.’ – Elizabeth I

”The Lion’ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‘Let’s try to make a story about it.” – C. S. Lewis

‘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.’ – Winston Churchill

‘I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.’ – Daddy Yankee

‘If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.’ – Ludwig Wittgenstein

‘An injured lion still wants to roar.’ – Randy Pausch

‘The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.’ – Salman Khan

‘The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.’ – Woody Allen

‘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.’ – Chanakya

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

‘A lion’s work hours are only when he’s hungry; once he’s satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.’ – Chuck Jones

‘Yeah, I call my warrior spirit the lion.’ – Jimi Manuwa

‘Funny enough, you know who I used to really like in Lion King? It was Scar.’ – Burna Boy

‘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.’ – Daniel Defoe

‘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

‘I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.’ – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

‘Every dog is a lion at home.’ – Henry George Bohn

‘What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain’t going to happen. That’s the type of person that I am. I’m that lion.’ – Cam Newton

‘Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.’ – Martin Amis

‘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

‘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.’ – Baltasar Gracian

‘Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians – except for the occasional mountain lion steak.’ – Ted Nugent

‘When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.’ – Saskya Pandita

‘The severity of punishments ought to be relative to the state of the nation itself. Stronger and more easily felt impressions have to be made on a people only just out of the savage state. A lightning strike is needed to stop a fierce lion who is provoked by a gunshot.’ – Cesare Beccaria

‘I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.’ – Jacki Weaver

‘I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn’t shut up!’ – Ingrid Bergman

”A living dog is better than a dead lion.’ Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don’t care anything about it.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘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.’ – Samuel Gompers

‘The holder of authority is like the rider on a lion – he is envied for his position, but he well knows his position.’ – Ali ibn Abi Talib

‘In Greek myth, a chimera is a creepy combination of lion, goat, dragon – in humans, chimeras are one person who contains two sets of DNA. That’s right. One person comes up in tests as two different people.’ – Susannah Cahalan

‘Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.’ – John Dryden

‘I try to think of myself as a lion, bringing down the kill, controlling the jungle. A lion controls his jungle.’ – John Daly

‘You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.’ – Patrick Swayze

‘Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.’ – Aaron Hill

‘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.’ – Tippi Hedren

‘Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.’ – Jean de La Fontaine

‘I’m a mother lion when it comes to protecting my children.’ – Joanna Cassidy

‘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

‘An elephant is the king of the jungle for the simple reason a lion is only brave when there is loads of them.’ – Dereck Chisora

‘My father is a South African actor who danced in broadway musicals for ‘Lion King.” – Doja Cat

‘Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power… but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding… The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak.’ – David Whyte

‘When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the ‘Lion King’ soundtrack. It’s really odd, but it’s true.’ – Blake Lively

‘You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.’ – William Tecumseh Sherman

‘The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba’s father gets trampled.’ – Vanessa Hudgens

‘I refuse to be outworked, and I consider myself to have the heart of a lion.’ – Draymond Green

‘There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.’ – Norman Ralph Augustine

‘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.’ – Tippi Hedren

‘I don’t mind going into a liberal lion’s den. That’s where you test yourself.’ – Charles Krauthammer

‘Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?’ – Patrick Henry

‘I was once, I think, bitten on the nose by a lion cub.’ – Newt Gingrich

‘Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.’ – Will Cuppy

‘Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone’s mastered their own domain… And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.’ – Zac Brown

‘Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain’s ready room died it was always a sad moment.’ – Patrick Stewart

‘Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.’ – Martin Amis

‘I always cry when Mufasa dies in ‘The Lion King.’ I just can’t handle it.’ – Spencer Matthews

‘We have a lion, tiger, liger, which is the father is a lion and the mother is a tiger, black and spotted leopard, mountain lion, Asian leopard cats. Weve got a tremendous number of the exotic feline.’ – Tippi Hedren

‘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.’ – Bert Lahr

‘I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father’s livestock while he was away on holiday.’ – Wilbur Smith

‘People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.’ – Hannah Kent

‘For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.’ – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

‘What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It’s not an intellectual thing. It’s almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.’ – Robert Greene

‘Lion’s mane may be our first ‘smart’ mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population.’ – Paul Stamets

‘At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there’s a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.’ – Josh Lucas

‘I know, it’s weird that I’ve never done a musical. I turned down two of them. ‘The Lion King’ and ‘The Producers.’ I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess?’ – Mario Cantone

‘Well, you know, I played Mufasa in the workshop of The Lion King.’ – Keith David

”Lauv’ comes from the Latvian word for lion, and my mom’s side of the family is from Latvia – it’s a place I’ve been probably 15 times or more. I’m also a Leo, and my real name, Ari, means lion.’ – Lauv

‘There’s an expression in Persian, ‘to play with the lion’s tail.’ I wasn’t what Iranian society wanted me to be – a good girl. I played with the lion’s tail.’ – Golshifteh Farahani

‘In boxing, it is about the obsession of getting the most from yourself: wanting to dominate the world like a hungry young lion.’ – Anthony Joshua

‘Lion’s mane mushrooms are not your classic-looking cap-and-stem variety. These globular-shaped mushrooms sport cascading teeth-like spines rather than the more common gills.’ – Paul Stamets

‘Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.’ – Oliver Herford

‘I carry around this little lion named Leo, which I’ve had for as long as I can remember.’ – Shawn Mendes

‘We have this amazing ability to turn on the exactly same stress response worrying about a mortgage that a zebra does when it’s sprinting away from a lion.’ – Robert Sapolsky

‘I’m for conservation, but it’s mostly a con. That’s the trouble. It’s sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.’ – Peter Beard

‘Rehearsals are great because without them, you feel like you’re being thrown into a lion’s den. But being on set, shooting your scenes that you’ve been preparing for months – that’s a great feeling.’ – Camila Morrone

‘After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren’t all that many parts for lions.’ – Bert Lahr

‘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.’ – Giorgos Seferis

‘An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.’ – George Chapman

‘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.’ – Roberto Benigni

‘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.’ – Crystal Eastman

‘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.’ – Dirk Benedict

‘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.’ – John Spratt

‘My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion.’ – Jimmy Smith

‘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.’ – Branford Marsalis

‘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.’ – Dennis Hastert

‘Yep, I’ll stay a Brisbane Lion, you’ve heard it first.’ – Jonathan Brown

‘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

‘The lion is, however, rarely heard – much more seldom seen.’ – John Hanning Speke

‘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.’ – Sanjay Dutt

‘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.’ – Christian Lous Lange

‘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.’ – Julie Taymor

‘My first day at MGM they decided to bring this lion out, male, and it was not the best time for him to see me. All of a sudden he thought I was in heat and this lion went into the dressing room, which was just a trailer on the sound stage, and went crazy.’ – Kim Novak

‘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.’ – Amanda Holden

‘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.’ – Benjamin Netanyahu

‘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.’ – Christopher Judge

‘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.’ – Marion Cotillard

‘I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from ‘The Lion King’ – and it’s a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.’ – Eddie Redmayne

”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.’ – James Wolcott

‘One lion thinks it’s just hilarious to tackle us. He’s very funny about it… and we always know when it will happen.’ – Tippi Hedren

‘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.’ – Tippi Hedren

‘We had a lion that was living in somebody’s basement outside of Branson, Missouri.’ – Tippi Hedren

‘I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he’s never mentioned it – you just find out. That’s a real man to me. A sleeping lion.’ – Johnny Vegas

‘Once I climbed into a mountain lion’s cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.’ – Edward Hoagland

‘I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him.’ – Ray Lewis

‘I’m not a very violent dude, and if something can be settled without any physicality, I’m always in favor of that. But if somebody comes near my kids, the atavistic crazy lion comes out.’ – Stephen Moyer

‘If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that’s what I’d be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.’ – Marlon Wayans

‘I was a creative player, but I got some bad injuries early on and I decided that if this was a jungle we were playing in then it’s better to be a lion than a lamb.’ – Johnny Giles

‘This first print run of the first edition of my first novel, ‘When The Lion Feeds.’ back in 1964, is so rare it can fetch several thousand pounds at auction. I always wanted to be an author, and I decided to write about what I knew.’ – Wilbur Smith

‘I’ve eaten lion, leopard, crocodile, python. I don’t recommend lion. It tastes exactly like when a tomcat comes into your house and sprays. Snake and crocodile are great – a cross between lobster and chicken.’ – Wilbur Smith

‘The group-effort sound in recording of ‘Sea Lion’ is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. There’s a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.’ – Feist

‘The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on ‘Sea Lion’ and that’s what I tried to make happen for ‘Metals,’ which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.’ – Feist

‘I’ve eaten sheep’s eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.’ – Bear Grylls

‘Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans.’ – Juan Williams

‘People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.’ – Marsha Norman

‘The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion’s share of their revenues.’ – James Surowiecki

‘I always have my journal with me. It was handmade by a guy at the San Telmo market in Buenos Aires. If you go there he can make you one. It’s leather and bronze and I’m able to replace the paper when it runs out. It has a lion on the cover that I say is there to protect my thoughts.’ – Blake Mycoskie

‘It’s not about being thin, it’s about being healthy. And when you are a child you like to eat all these unhealthy things like chocolate and sweets. Oh my God. I love strawberries dipped in chocolate and Lion bars and Toffee Crisps – and as you grow up, you have to learn that those things are only good in moderation or you will become very fat.’ – Dionne Bromfield

‘I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.’ – John Gutfreund

‘I love taking challenges, as my name Leander means ‘lion’s heart.” – Leander Paes

‘Mushrooms provide a vast array of potential medicinal compounds. Many mushrooms – such as portobello, oyster, reishi and maitake – are well-known for these properties, but the lion’s mane mushroom, in particular, has drawn the attention of researchers for its notable nerve-regenerative properties.’ – Paul Stamets

‘Our logo for Lanvin is a mother and a daughter. I’ve always said, ‘It’s not a lion, and it’s not a horse. It’s a mother and a daughter.’ I find the logo very emotional.’ – Alber Elbaz

‘What I hope is that I don’t just become ‘Peter from ‘The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.’ I want to try and do something else to be a good actor and a respected actor.’ – William Moseley

‘I used to love ‘The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,’ and I can still remember listening to them before I would fall asleep. I can remember the first ten minutes of the book perfectly, but whether I knew the rest of it was slightly more dicey.’ – William Moseley

‘The SEC got more than 100 rules to write under Dodd-Frank, the lion’s share of all the agencies. And we’ve moved, I think, with a tremendous sense of urgency. But it takes a long time to write rules and get them approved by a five-member commission.’ – Mary Schapiro

‘Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion’s share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do.’ – Mary Schapiro

‘When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It was just one big tent, and he was a lion tamer. He didn’t have any kids, but the bit was that I would dress up as his son in an identical outfit.’ – Christopher Walken

‘Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.’ – Adam Savage

‘I’ve got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.’ – Les Dawson

‘I saw my first two Broadway shows when I was 4 years old, ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ and after both of them I came home and reenacted the entirety of the shows on my living room table for my family and friends. I started doing that after every show I saw until I actually did my first youth production when I was 5.’ – Max Schneider

‘New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you’re going to the center of the world, the lion’s den.’ – Zubin Mehta

‘I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.’ – Maya Angelou

‘I got to know Elton John’s older music by learning to like his newer stuff. ‘The Lion King?’ That’s what I like.’ – Aaron Schock

‘Natasha Lyonne is fantastic on Twitter. She posts hilarious pictures. I don’t even know where she finds some of them; it’ll be like a random picture of a chinchilla kissing a lion or Bill Murray and Jim Belushi out on a boat or something.’ – Uzo Aduba

‘The thing that everyone remembers about ‘Bambi’ is that moment. ‘The Lion King,’ took it to quite an extreme because it was an action sequence: his father was killed in a wildebeest stampede – I related, because mine was, too.’ – Nathan Lane

‘I’ve loved musicals ever since I saw ‘The Lion King’ on Broadway.’ – Mark Indelicato

‘In ancient African cultures, a young man was not considered a full member of the tribe, an elder, a man. He couldn’t marry and he couldn’t own land until he had killed a lion. It was symbolic.’ – John Eldredge

‘I think I’d like to be a lion tamer, actually. That – that would provide the most audience entertainment if something went really badly.’ – Andy Serkis

‘I grew up in a small hotel with many rooms, so when I became aware of ‘The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,’ I inspected all the wardrobes, sure one had to be a portal to another world. I was also a true believer in faeries, and perhaps still am.’ – Jo Beverley

‘Tyria’s a big world. We get a grand tour in ‘Ghosts of Ascalon.’ We’re in Divinity’s Reach, we’re in Lion’s Arch, we’re in Ebonhawke, we’re in the Dragon’s Land, we’re in Ascalon. We’re basically hitting a lot of the major human and charr locations.’ – Jeff Grubb

‘We women make the lion’s share of household purchases in this country. We ourselves drive billions of dollars a year in sales.’ – Sandra Tsing Loh

‘After World War II, scientific research in the U.S. was well supported. In the 1960s, when I came to America, the sky was the limit, and this conducive atmosphere enabled many of us to pursue esoteric research that resulted in America winning the lion’s share of Nobel Prizes.’ – Ahmed Zewail

‘The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.’ – David Whyte

‘When a lion doesn’t get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.’ – Uday Kotak

‘There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion’s share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.’ – Joel Fuhrman

‘I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in ‘The Lion King.’ I wanted to sing ‘The Circle of Life.” – Aaron Lazar

‘The ‘Chronicles of Narnia’ have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread ‘Aslan’ as ‘Alsatian’ and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!’ – Chris Riddell

‘I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he’d had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision.’ – Kathryn Harrison

‘Though every nation must do its part to address climate change, developed nations are responsible for the lion’s share of carbon pollution in the atmosphere, and they have an obligation to help developing nations transition to a sustainable future.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it’s important after you’ve been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!’ – Karen Salmansohn

‘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

‘I had this maroon ‘Lion King’ tracksuit that my mum couldn’t take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.’ – Oliver Jackson-Cohen

‘I grew up watching Pixar movies. And my favourite – if you don’t count ‘The Good Dinosaur’ – is the first Pixar movie my older brother showed me. That would be ‘Monsters, Inc.’ I also like Disney – ‘The Lion King’ is probably my all-time favourite movie.’ – Raymond Ochoa

‘I loved the Scarecrow and the Tin Man and the Lion and you could kind of see the actors’ faces in them. It wasn’t an entirely new face sculpted around them. What made those characters so human and appealing to me was seeing those great actors underneath there. They weren’t lost behind a bunch of appliances.’ – Rich Moore

‘The lion’s share of the damage to the Irish economy was the fault of domestic, economic, and financial mismanagement.’ – Enda Kenny

‘My mum always said I devoured ‘The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe’ at the tender age of four, but frankly, I think that might be a touch of maternal exaggeration.’ – Matt Haig

‘Eyeliner is a go-to for me, and gold has always been a color that I really like. It’s reminiscent of a lion; it’s a strong color.’ – Jillian Hervey

‘I feel like my Lion Babe look is an embellishment of my everyday look – it’s definitely more extravagant and more artistic.’ – Jillian Hervey

‘To be honest, I’m in love with denim. It hasn’t been my go-to Lion Babe look, but it’s very much my ‘everyday Jillian look.’ I am in denim every single day.’ – Jillian Hervey

‘When I first started Lion Babe, I wore a lot of denim to perform in because I had a limited closet. A lot of the time, I was in cutoff shorts – either dark or light denim – and then I would pair them with whatever top I had.’ – Jillian Hervey

‘I have a lot of lion jewellery and lion art. I also love crystals.’ – Jillian Hervey

‘I wasn’t even singing when we first started Lion Babe, so my voice has only gotten stronger.’ – Jillian Hervey

‘Fake eyelashes can instantly give me a more dramatic look and also help to accentuate my eyes, which are a focal point to achieving the Lion Babe look.’ – Jillian Hervey

‘My time at Barnard was fun but stressful. I transferred there from the acting conservatory at NYU, and my Rolling Around On the Floor Pretending to Be a Lion classes didn’t translate into many academic credits.’ – Lauren Graham

‘Of course my uncle was a giant, but my dad, in particular, had the house filled with these great Dixieland jazz stars, really the best of them: Henry Red Allen, Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith, Buster Bailey, Cutty Cutshall, Tyree Glenn, Zutty Singleton. These are all big names in the Dixieland world.’ – Billy Crystal

‘Even when I went to the Lion’s Head in the Village, where all you journalists would hang out, I was always peripheral. I was never really part of anything except the classroom. That’s where I belonged.’ – Frank McCourt

‘I’m a lion. I’m not tough, but I am strong. I’m definitely not a wallflower.’ – Cressida Bonas

‘Justice Scalia was a lion of the law. Agree or disagree with him, all of his colleagues on the bench shared his wisdom and his humor. And like them, I miss him.’ – Neil Gorsuch

‘I first read ‘The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe’ when I was a kid. And I think it was read to me. Me and my sister both had a copy and loved the books.’ – Will Poulter

‘Seeing the actual ‘The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe’, I absolutely loved it. It became one of my favourite films. It was a real Christmas classic, and it was one of the most popular films ever in British history.’ – Will Poulter

‘I was in Australia in 1983 and did a stunt in a lion’s cage.’ – Tiny Tim

‘If you are the person who gets the lion’s share of attention in good times, guess what: you get the lion’s share of attention in bad times.’ – Matt Lauer

‘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

‘If you look at it, ‘The Lion King’ is very similar to ‘Hamlet.” – Kelly Asbury

‘I always want to work on things that really scare me and interest me at the same time, and you know, I definitely had some projects in the past that did that, but the stars never aligned in getting them up. So ‘Lion’ was another project that really interested me, and the stars did align on this one. It just happened to be my first film!’ – Garth Davis

‘There’s no doubt that ‘Lion’ is an audience pleaser. I mean, I went to a lot of research screenings all over, in London and America and Australia, and the results were ridiculous, and the crowds were… they just loved the movie, so for me, my job is done.’ – Garth Davis

‘Have you seen the Broadway version of ‘The Lion King?’ Go and see it. That’s where the future of musical is.’ – Colm Wilkinson

‘It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.’ – Frank Ocean

‘The lion’s share of what I listened to in the Eighties, what really affected me, was coming from Britain.’ – John Grant

‘In 2006, I hung out with The Carter Center as they monitored the Palestinian elections. Nobody thought Hamas would win. Hamas did not think Hamas could win. The lion’s share of folks I spoke to who were voting for them were not actually voting for Hamas but against Fatah.’ – Maysoon Zayid

‘I’m a middle child, so I have middle-child syndrome. With a middle child, you always have to take in everything and adjust and maybe compromise a little bit so you’re able to see both sides of an issue. I’m also a Leo – I love astrology – so that affected me, just being a lion.’ – Jessica Williams

‘Even if everything its detractors say about Fox were true, the most liberal of liberal attitudes would be that one would get credit for being in the lion’s den.’ – Alan Colmes

‘My son smelled like a cinnamon bun, and that smell entered into my biological being, and it became an imperative that I keep him alive at all costs, so then there’s this monster – this tiger or lion – that comes forward in you to protect them. And it doesn’t stop. It doesn’t matter if they become men or women.’ – Frances McDormand

‘I did have my beginnings in doo-wop music; I had a group called the Tokens in Brooklyn. They went on, of course, to do ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ and a lot of other great things. I went on as a soloist. But I still love doo-wop music.’ – Neil Sedaka

‘We get stressed out now by having somebody yell at us in the office or by making a mistake or by losing a bunch of money. These aren’t problems that our hunter-gatherer ancestors had. They’d get stressed if a lion came to them or a boulder was rolling towards their living quarters. That kind of stress provoked the fight or flight response.’ – Daniel Levitin

‘I have not seen ‘The Lion King.’ I don’t do black folklore. And I’m black.’ – Hilton Als

‘One of the stories that inspires me is that it is documented that a honey badger killed a lion in a one-on-one.’ – Nick Cummins

‘The more we allow Republicans to concentrate the lion’s share of wealth in the hands of a few, the more power these wealthy few will have. And they will use this power to continue rewriting the rules of both our economy and our political system in their favor.’ – Tom Steyer

‘I was obsessed with ‘The Lion King’ as a kid, and I really wanted to go work in an animal sanctuary and have my Lara Croft moment.’ – Shura

‘Going into a locker room that’s not even yours to begin with is certainly like you’re entering the lion’s den.’ – Hilary Knight

‘I moved at age 22 to Montana to be able to walk in really wild woods, where the chances of being killed by a bear or mountain lion are not zero.’ – Michael Finkel

‘I must have written 15 lyrics for ‘The Lion King,’ and only five or six were used. Some were scenes that disappeared, some were earlier versions of songs that didn’t work, or else the characters changed.’ – Tim Rice

‘When I got the first e-mail suggesting we cast Zooey Deschanel in ‘New Girl’, I thought, ‘That’s exactly right.’ In the pilot of ‘Modern Family’, when Cam is holding up the baby with the ‘Lion King’ theme, it was very clear we had something special.’ – Dana Walden

‘I loved ‘A Lion in the Meadow’ by Margaret Mahy.’ – Emma Healey

‘I’ve never read ‘The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe,’ but his later works are about whether God is real.’ – Brian Fallon

‘Because boys tend to dominate the narrative for who’s at risk, sometimes they dominate the lion’s share of services, too.’ – Ayanna Pressley

‘During the 2005 Bush tax holiday, corporations didn’t bring back the billions they stashed overseas to build new factories, increase wages, or create more jobs. The lion’s share of that windfall went to CEO raises and stock buybacks for investors on Wall Street.’ – Bob Menendez

‘England have always had individually strong players, and I am a huge fan of Stevie Gerrard, who has the heart of a lion and is the icon of the modern footballer with his ability to attack and defend so well.’ – Kaka

‘When I was about ten years old, I was brought to London to watch a production of ‘The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.’ I think it was at Sadler’s Wells in maybe 2000. I watched it because my school was putting on a production of it, and it was the first school play that I was able to audition for a speaking part.’ – George Blagden

‘If a man puts a lion’s family in jeopardy, what would it do? Would it enjoy fighting? Of course it wouldn’t, but it’s going to fight.’ – Yoel Romero

‘People always want to see that, the young lion going to take the old lion out.’ – Amir Khan

‘Ray Mercer has the heart of a lion and a great chin.’ – Tommy Morrison

‘Most wives look at me the way lame deer look at a hungry lion.’ – Katie Hopkins

‘The strong creation created by God in the world is not the lion, not the elephant, not the tiger – the girl.’ – Arunachalam Muruganantham

‘With time, art developed Bip, my alter ego. He was not only a lion tamer or a street musician but a soldier revealing the tragedy of ephemeral life.’ – Marcel Marceau

‘When you are challenging for the world title, you’ve got to go into the lion’s den to try and rip that belt away from the champion.’ – Naseem Hamed

‘I have the heart of lion.’ – David Haye

‘ISIS targeting the U.S. military is like a sheep targeting a lion.’ – Dakota Meyer

‘My dad is a little bit of a softy. I mean, he, like, cries at ‘The Lion King,’ and I’m kind of, like, his little girl.’ – Brooke Hogan

‘I’ve grown up on American songwriters my whole life – listening to Paul Simon and Bob Dylan and people like John Prine – you know, classic, real songwriters. They’ve been the lion’s share of what I’ve really focused on as a writer and as influences, too.’ – Passenger

‘I have always been ‘small town.’ I was born outside of Philadelphia, so we lived on a 20-acre farm and then spent two years in a log cabin on the Appalachian Trail. We lived outside of York in Red Lion, which is an amazing town. It’s perpetually 1982 in that town.’ – Lzzy Hale

‘I traveled a lot, but we didn’t hire nannies to take care of our kids. We were both very hands-on. My wife did the lion’s share because I traveled a lot, but it was important to us to do our best.’ – Timothy B. Schmit

‘Across society, the lion’s share of caring responsibility – whether for children or elderly relatives – still falls on women.’ – Jo Swinson

‘Now my grandmother, who used to want sons, says that she does not really want boys anymore. She says I’m the lion of the family.’ – Geeta Phogat

‘This perception that a good captain is someone who beats his chest and roars like a lion and gives big Churchillian speeches, that’s just not what leadership is about for me.’ – Andrew Strauss

‘I’m a big believer in building a crew. Movies are the most collaborative art form at the tend of the world, and it takes hundreds of people to make one. At the end of the day, I get the lion’s share of praise or blame but everybody on the ground knows that it was all of us.’ – Mike Flanagan

‘Obviously, Iron Maiden is on a way bigger scale to British Lion, but as a musician playing live, it’s just the adrenaline rush of playing in front of an audience that gives you that rush.’ – Steve Harris

‘I’m an eclectic individual when it comes to film. I love my Disney: ‘Aladdin,’ ‘The Lion King.’ Also, ‘Romeo+Juliet,’ the Leonardo DiCaprio version.’ – Adebayo Akinfenwa

‘I’m obsessed with ‘Wicked’, and I’d love to play Nala in ‘The Lion King’. Some of the songs from ‘The Lion King’ are performed in my native tongue, so when the cast performed an extract from the show in ‘Strictly’ in the language I grew up with, it made me cry.’ – Oti Mabuse

‘Disney movies are a great outing for the entire family, and my children are huge fans of their classics, especially ‘The Lion King.” – Brahmanandam

‘In ‘Lion King,’ the music is brilliant. The CGI is amazing.’ – John Kani

‘The lion doesn’t care that the sheep laugh at him. Remember that. The lion just stays there. The animals make noise and tease. The guy with the belt is the lion.’ – B. J. Penn

‘I’m a young lion and I believe I can be one of the greats.’ – Kell Brook

‘Listen, people that know me, know I’ve got a lion heart.’ – Kell Brook

‘The Lion King is one of my favorite stories ever.’ – Spencer Matthews

‘Choose paintings, sculptures, realistic or abstract or animal images woven into fabrics, rather than a faux zebra rug or a sullied Lion’s head on the wall.’ – Hilary Farr

‘I had left ‘Ragtime’ – and ‘Ragtime’ was a completely different beast, no pun intended, than ‘The Lion King’.’ – Heather Headley

‘I remember coming into ‘The Lion King’ and, oh forgive me Lord, but doubting it. The way that musicals are put together, we’re kind of exclusive of each other. And so somebody’s working on this in one room, and somebody’s working that in the other room. I did not understand how all this was going to come together.’ – Heather Headley

‘Lion Face Boy’ is the first single from Seabear’s sophomore album, ‘We Built a Fire,’ and it’s a perfect display of the band’s knack for constructing mountains of instrumentation on a simple idea.’ – Anthony Fantano

‘Growing up, my favorite movie was ‘The Lion King.’ I used to watch it every day and create these extravagant stories with my Barbies and stuffed animals. My dad says I would say the entire movie out loud, and it’s still the one VHS that I have.’ – KiKi Layne

‘Doesn’t everybody love movies like ‘Lion King?” – Nagma

‘The reason I loved doing films like ‘Rogue One,’ ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ and ‘Lion’ was that there was enough breadth and difference in those projects to properly represent my interests.’ – Greig Fraser

‘I did a lot of prep for ‘Rogue One’ while I was working on ‘Lion,’ so I could take the skills I learned in India and apply them to ‘Rogue’ and then take the skills I learned on ‘Rogue’ and apply it to ‘Lion.” – Greig Fraser

‘Disney movies have had a tradition of excellent music since the beginning. Some of my favorites are ‘Fantasia,’ ‘Dumbo,’ ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Toy Story.” – James Newton Howard

‘I got thrown into the lion’s den when I got to Alpha Male. My first sparring session was with Joe Benavidez, Chad Mendes and those guys, just bleeding from my face, its not like they took it easy on me. It was one of those things where we sparred 3-4 days a week, and we got thrown in there and that’s what made me as tough as I am.’ – T.J. Dillashaw

‘She was absolutely my hero. She would do without if she could help somebody else. My mom showed the courage of the lion to keep her kids alive, and the sacrifices she made were incredible. I don’t know if I would have been man enough to do what she did.’ – Bruno Sammartino

‘I own a private yacht, private jet and a private lion.’ – Demis Roussos

‘I train like a dog and I eat and fight like a lion and if Kell Brook thinks he’s got what it takes, put his money up, tell his people to come over here, jump on a private jet… I’ll even let him train in my gym, so we can make a fight in my hometown.’ – Jermell Charlo

‘Margin trading will drive the lion’s share of our revenue, which is like a loan that lets people have more money to trade with.’ – Baiju Bhatt

‘I’m a real lion and I’m going to show it.’ – Jermall Charlo

‘I have a complete temple of Lord Shiva. I have Shivansh written on me and that is the name of my sister’s son. I am a Leo so I also have a lion. I also have a warrior type tattoo as that gives me the spirit to fight when I am on the field. The pain of getting inked gives me joy.’ – Yuzvendra Chahal

‘I don’t go there any more. I think I’ve done my time at the Red Lion.’ – Kathy Burke

‘I’ve been called a point guard, I’ve been called a traffic cop, I’ve been called a ringmaster, a lion tamer, whatever. And I guess the thing about the traffic cop is I’m more of a rogue traffic cop because a good traffic cop doesn’t want any fender benders.’ – Ernie Johnson Jr.

‘I’m more of a sea lion than a lion.’ – Shaun Ryder

‘I went on safari and there were all these lion cubs rolling around like cats and they were so cute and I just wanted to hug them! But you can’t coz you’ll get eaten… It was really hard!’ – Leigh-Anne Pinnock

‘Having portrayed a lot of villainous characters in Telugu cinema, voicing Scar was a different and memorable experience for me, and I was glad to be part of such a grand big-ticket entertainer. Disney films are a perfect package for the entire family and I hope to lend my trademark style to ‘The Lion King’ as well!’ – Jagapathi Babu

‘The Lion in Winter’ was great fun.’ – Rosemary Harris

‘Just because I have a successful dog act doesn’t mean I can walk up to the lion cage and do as well.’ – Eddie Rabbitt

‘People hear ‘East Palo Alto’ and they think, ‘Oh, you’re from Stanford.’ They don’t understand. It’s like ‘The Lion King:’ You’ve got Pride Rock, and then you’ve got where the hyenas are. It ain’t too far, but it’s a completely different world.’ – Davante Adams

‘When I was eight I discovered ‘The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe’ by C S Lewis and it made me fall in love with reading.’ – Tony Hadley

‘Something severed when my brother died. I was living but not living. Andy used to lie on the bunk bed and cuddle me – I was his lion cub.’ – Nigel Benn

‘I don’t care if you’re a young lion, you’re an old lion, you’re a veteran, you’re in the middle of the pack – I’m top dog. I’m the guy.’ – Beneil Dariush

‘I love to go see ‘The Lion King’ on Broadway. It’s my favorite thing ever.’ – Coco Gauff

‘I saw ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ ‘Little Mermaid,’ ‘The Lion King,’ ‘Mary Poppins’ – I saw all of those before I was introduced to the classics.’ – Rachel Zegler

‘My hair is like a lion’s mane! I just put it up. And I’ll use plain rubber bands if I can’t find anything else.’ – Taylor Hill

‘Personally, things really got under way for me when I eventually got to direct a couple of Roger Rabbit shorts and co-directed ‘The Lion King.” – Rob Minkoff

‘Everybody assigned to ‘Lion King’ initially disliked it. The hot project was ‘Pocahontas.” – Rob Minkoff

‘When we did ‘Lion King’ it was all drawn and now we use computers to do the work.’ – Rob Minkoff

‘I was actually developing the sequel to ‘Roger Rabbit’ before I was doing ‘The Lion King.” – Rob Minkoff

‘The lion is not biggest animal in jungle, but he’s king. Zurdo bigger than me; doesn’t matter.’ – Dmitry Bivol

‘First of all, Brock is a different animal. You don’t compare a lion to a jaguar. We’re just different animals in that aspect.’ – Shelton Benjamin