[On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea.' You know, we eat - the others watch. — Princess Margaret Copy Share Image
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison. — Nadine Gordimer 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
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
There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare… — Irene Dunne 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
For God so loved the world, that whosoever believes in him will, from that point on, be considered weired by the rest… — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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
“Am I my brother's keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo.” — Woody Allen 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 quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's… — Evan Esar 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
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
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
My wife a great driver, she once hit a deer. It was in a zoo. There is a pair of shoes on… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative power of… — Nathanael West 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
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
In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo… It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor… — Alexander Lukashenko 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
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our… — Angela Davis 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
Stop going to the zoos! Don't take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Jeez, was that a lion? Please tell me it’s behind bars.” “It’s a zoo, Iggy,” Nudge said, taking his arms and leading… — James Patterson 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
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image