Zoos Quotes

Why do men go to zoos?

— H. L. Mencken

I love zoo sanctuaries.

— Nancy Travis

I hate zoos.

— Laurie Anderson

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

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

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

— Jesse Helms

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

— Dov Davidoff

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

— Axl Rose

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Edward T. Hall

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

— Rodney Dangerfield

We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals…

— Virginia McKenna

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

— Wyndham Lewis

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

In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.

— Susan Orlean

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

— Carl Sagan

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

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

My father never cheated on my mother. He used to cheat on me. He used to pick other kids after school. Take…

— Dom Irrera

Newt Gingrich was campaigning at a zoo this week and he was bitten by a penguin. Newt Gingrich is always campaigning at…

— Bill Maher

When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting…

— Melvin Burgess

Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and…

— Garrison Keillor

Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts.…

— Alison Lurie

This really isn't a game we really should be proud of. This game is liking taking your kids to the zoo. You're…

— Shaquille O'Neal

It is hard to get mad at Donald Trump for saying stupid things, in the same way you don't get mad at…

— Jon Stewart

The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowherein…

— John Berger

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

— Gerry Cheevers

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

— Abigail George

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

— Clare Boothe Luce

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

— Rodney Dangerfield

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

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

— Desmond Morris