Zoo Quotes
174 Zoo quotes by 150 unique authors
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
— Clare Boothe Luce
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In 1986, our commencement speaker was George Schultz, secretary of state, fourth in line to the president. You get me-basic cable's second most popular fake…
— Stephen Colbert
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They can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What does that even…
— Adam Rex
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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
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If you want to understand how a lion hunts, don't go to the zoo. Go to the jungle.
— Jim Stengel
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I think the monkeys at the zoo should have to wear sunglasses so they can't hypnotize you.
— Jack Handey
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This is an extremely foolish and stupid and idiotic kind of attitude - to expect theatres to make money. Do the public schools make money?…
— Unknown Author
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People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.
— Lorne Michaels
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Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back.
— Andy Biersack
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Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo Sapiens in all…
— Cees Nooteboom
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The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they are uselessly separated.…
— Mark Forsyth
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We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are…
— Laurence Gonzales
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
— John Berger
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The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.
— Robert Breault
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As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren…
— Temple Grandin
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[My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas' behavior] in their natural habitat... Then, all too soon, the infants were demanded for their…
— Dian Fossey
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I'm not going to / let a little thing like the world stand in my way. / Why should I? I understand it / as…
— Matthew Dickman
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A good way to lose weight is to put salt on your ass and go to a petting zoo. But stay away from goats because…
— Gary Busey
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So, not only am I panicking over the weekend if I need to know my lines, but also if can I get the kids to…
— Hunter Tylo
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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an…
— Igor Stravinsky
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The zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. I wanted…
— Russell Hoban
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Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic,…
— Wyndham Lewis
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I love zoo sanctuaries.
— Nancy Travis
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Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to…
— Vance Havner
Who Wrote These Zoo Quotes
150 authors contributed a total of 174 Zoo Quotes, led by these top contributors: