Zoos Quotes

135 quotes by 119 authors

I live in a zoo I run scandals with savages — Cam'ron
If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port that will let… — Peter Singer
A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and… — Edward Abbey
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to… — H. L. Mencken
I went to the zoo one day and saw a chimp playing with a beat-up acoustic guitar in a way I had never seen before.… — Eddie Van Halen
I like to do chill things on dates. I think it would be fun to go to the zoo. I know it's really weird and… — Ashlee Simpson
Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill? — Jesse Helms
Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the… — Rigoberta Menchu
The only place that work and motion are the same thing is the zoo where people pay to see the animals move around — Taiichi Ohno
It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true of scientists. The… — Frans de Waal
Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things. — Gerald Durrell
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 like that?" — Robin Williams
You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs like tug boats… — Jeremy Clarkson
Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo. — Clare Boothe Luce
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
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
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
If you want to understand how a lion hunts, don't go to the zoo. Go to the jungle. — Jim Stengel
I think the monkeys at the zoo should have to wear sunglasses so they can't hypnotize you. — Jack Handey
This is an extremely foolish and stupid and idiotic kind of attitude - to expect theatres to make money. Do the public schools make money?… — John Hirsch

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