Let us free all the animals in the zoos to show them that we are not animals! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks,… — Janice Hahn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea.' You know, we eat - the others watch. — Princess Margaret Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
We are facing an enormous crisis in Africa right now in terms of illegal wildlife trafficking, which is decimating animal populations, destroying… — David Jeremiah Barron Copy Share Image
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
When I was six years old, my parents took me to this farmers' market with a petting zoo. They put me on… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
“One might even argue that if an animal could choose with intelligence, it would opt for living in a zoo, since the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I went to the zoo one day and saw a chimp playing with a beat-up acoustic guitar in a way I had… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered,… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
A peacock escaped from the Central Park Zoo and wandered around the city. Either that or I just saw a pigeon on… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals… — Virginia McKenna Copy Share Image
People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct… — Betty White Copy Share Image
I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Hollywood movies are designed for 15-year-old youths from North Dakota who, intellectually speaking, are on equal terms with a British zoo animal. — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney is quite a guy. At one point he and his wife bought a zoo and fired all the animals. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected,… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
Most people are really nice but some stare, like you're some kind of zoo exhibit and not a real person with real… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
The only place that work and motion are the same thing is the zoo where people pay to see the animals move… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
Every time you go to the zoo, you prolong the captivity of the animals there! If no one goes to the zoos,… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A good way to lose weight is to put salt on your ass and go to a petting zoo. But stay away… — Gary Busey Copy Share Image
A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
I'm not going to / let a little thing like the world stand in my way. / Why should I? I understand… — Matthew Dickman Copy Share Image
The only thing I like about St. Louis is it has the best zoo in America, in Forest Park. Washington University is… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image