Zoos Quotes

I hate zoos.

— Laurie Anderson

Why do men go to zoos?

— H. L. Mencken

I love zoo sanctuaries.

— Nancy Travis

I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo.

— Bindi Irwin

The zoo cannot but disappoint.

— John Berger

I live in a zoo I run scandals with savages

— Cam'ron

“Libraries are zoos for books.”

— Craig Douglas Dworkin

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

— Margaret Atwood

All zoos are both beguiling and repellent.

— Thomas French

Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

— Clare Boothe Luce

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

— Yann Martel

I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.

— Betty White

Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.

— Edward T. Hall

The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.

— Robert Breault

Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.

— Gerry Cheevers

I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped.

— Rodney Dangerfield

They can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What…

— Adam Rex

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies…

— Michael J. Fox

“See this abdicated beast, once king Of them all, nibble his claws: Not anger enough left—no, nor despair— To break his teeth…

— Cecil Day-Lewis

Film is my passion. I had no money, after Human Zoo. I was completely broke. It was horrible. My film was in…

— Rie Rasmussen

I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds…

— Patti Smith

What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

— Anonymous

Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.

— Sam Simon

When I visit my brother in South Africa, I order things I've only seen in zoos. Little deers and kudu, all the…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they…

— Mark Forsyth

I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s.…

— Betty White

Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em…

— Will Rogers

If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless…

— H. L. Mencken

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the…

— Andrew Motion

I'm also not an avid watcher of the show ['Walking Dead'] for no good reason. I think it's obviously a great show.…

— James Wolk

I don't have time for lie-on-the-beach vacations. I'm a zoo person. There's one in New Jersey where animals actually come up to…

— Missy Elliot

“They parade for us In zoos - in portraits Of every generation.”

— Abigail George

Met someone who works at the zoo. Apparently the panda is a nasty animal.

— Dov Davidoff

Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?

— Jesse Helms

I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.

— Axl Rose

In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

We're feeding all these zoos. And that's getting bigger and bigger.

— Dick Van Patten

I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos.

— Homer