Zoos Quotes
135 quotes by 119 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.
— Hoagy Carmichael
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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
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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
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Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
— Evan Esar
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Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.
— Gerry Cheevers
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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
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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
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I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.
— Christopher Walken
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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
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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
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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
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I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo.
— Bindi Irwin
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I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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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
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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
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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
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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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