Zoos Quotes

135 quotes by 119 authors

For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to… — Diane Ackerman
What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other… — Diane Ackerman
It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous. — Kevin Bacon
Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo. — Hoagy Carmichael
Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw… — Spiro T. Agnew
When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo… — Jerry Lewis
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. — Evan Esar
Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo. — Gerry Cheevers
I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we got to the gorilla cage… — Mike Tyson
The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother. — Evan Esar
I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law. — Christopher Walken
In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo.... It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor in that form.… — Alexander Lukashenko
The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby gorilla at the… — Peter Singer
We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be… — Rigoberta Menchu
I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo. — Bindi Irwin
I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped. — Rodney Dangerfield
I still haven't gotten over this thing of walking down the street and somebody recognizing you because you've been in a movie. There's this illusion… — Sam Shepard
There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a… — Irene Dunne
Newt Gingrich was campaigning at a zoo this week and he was bitten by a penguin. Newt Gingrich is always campaigning at zoos. Mitt Romney… — Bill Maher
What do the animals do in the zoo? That's the same thing that I do in my cell. I play with myself. I make little… — Charles Manson

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