Zoos Quotes · Page 2

I view my own body as a petting zoo. I am the main attraction... And the only customer.

— Craig Ferguson

Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.

— Hoagy Carmichael

I do love nature, but I don't suppose I'd spent more time in zoos as a child than anyone else!

— Andy Serkis

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

— Gerald Durrell

We have wild animals in zoos, yet people rarely meet their 'food' face to face.

— Elayne Boosler

I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.

— Grigori Perelman

I think the monkeys at the zoo should have to wear sunglasses so they can't hypnotize you.

— Jack Handey

It's still relatively rare to have an epidemiologist at a zoo.

— Steve Ross

Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth. I am never quite certain if I am visiting the…

— Elinor Glyn

We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.

— Michio Kaku

I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

— Christopher Walken

“I want to spit back at a camel and ask him what he's so sour about. Maybe camels are the real 'Old…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Their stupidity does not amaze me, its when they're smart that amazes me. It's baffling whenever you find someone who's smart —…

— Frank Zappa

Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks,…

— Janice Hahn

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

— Ogden Nash

We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain…

— Laurence Gonzales

I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with…

— Betty White

I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful,…

— Betty White

The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having…

— E. O. Wilson

I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son…

— Anonymous

For God so loved the world, that whosoever believes in him will, from that point on, be considered weired by the rest…

— Mike Yaconelli

For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins…

— Diane Ackerman

When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time -…

— Octavia E. Butler

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I…

— Igor Stravinsky

If you want to understand how a lion hunts, don't go to the zoo. Go to the jungle.

— Jim Stengel

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

— Desmond Morris

Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back.

— Andy Biersack

Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.

— Yann Martel

Let us free all the animals in the zoos to show them that we are not animals!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young…

— Spiro T. Agnew

Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

[On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea.' You know, we eat - the others watch.

— Princess Margaret

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

— Yann Martel

We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside…

— Bob Barker

“Chicago—this vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, Mace-smelling boneyard of a city; an elegant rockpile monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

— Nadine Gordimer

You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs…

— Jeremy Clarkson

A peacock escaped from the Central Park Zoo and wandered around the city. Either that or I just saw a pigeon on…

— Jimmy Fallon

When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered,…

— Jerry Lewis

I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged,…

— Wyndham Lewis