Zoos Quotes · Page 2

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— Yann Martel

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

— Andy Biersack

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

— Jim Stengel

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

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

— Steve Ross

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

— Jack Handey

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

— Jeremy Clarkson

[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

“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

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

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

— Nadine Gordimer

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 grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me…

— Douglas Coupland

I can definitely tell you what viewers can expect from Season 2 [of 'Zoo']. It picks up right where Season 1 left…

— James Wolk

The Zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about…

— Russell Hoban

Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo…

— Cees Nooteboom

I think she is going to find you too old... Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it…

— Michel Houellebecq

I'm less upset with politicians than the media. I feel like politicians, there is a certain, inherent - you know, the way…

— Jon Stewart

They used to have a smoking section at most airports. No more. They now have these glass-encased rooms. You're not just a…

— Marc Maron

The voice of the natural world would be, "Could you please give us space and leave us alone to get along with…

— Jane Goodall

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

— Homer

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

— Andy Serkis

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

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

— Gerald Durrell

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

— Christopher Walken

“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

“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

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

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

— Janice Hahn

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

“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

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

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

— Sam Simon

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

— Rie Rasmussen