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Zoos Quotes by Yann Martel
- I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
- Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS…
- We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
- It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as…
- ...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are…
More Zoos Quotes
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to… — 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… — 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… — 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,… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Alexander Lukashenko