Zoos Quotes
135 quotes by 118 authors
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In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.
— Susan Orlean
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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
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As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's…
— Keegan Allen
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When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos…
— Melvin Burgess
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Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.
— Edward T. Hall
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If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling…
— Bob Dole
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You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly…
— Tarsem Singh
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Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks, the zoo or…
— Janice Hahn
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Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em at play, either…
— Will Rogers
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I like to do from racing my radio control cars to doing work at the zoo to poems to the TV show. There are a…
— Dhani Jones
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Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were…
— Michael J. Fox
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With me, traveling for work is arriving at the airport, checking into the hotel, leaving the hotel the next morning at 4 or 5 to…
— Gilbert Gottfried
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My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
— Billy Connolly
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show…
— Daniel Craig
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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous…
— Angela Davis
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Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.
— Jack Hanna
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I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a…
— John Irving
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We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.
— Michio Kaku
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I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.
— Nicole Kidman
Who Wrote These Zoos Quotes
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