![[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of which they are the fingers. They are fully aware of being a family but are very little aware of being individuals. Here in the zoo there were other gorillas—but there was no family. Five severed fingers do not make a hand.](/assets/img/quote-photos/in-africa-i-was-a-member-of-a-familyof-a-sort-of-family-that-the-people-of-you.jpg)
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zoos trying want
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 someone who was trying to live their life. Daniel Craig
zoos men atheism
Why do men go to zoos? H. L. Mencken
zoos real nice
Most people are really nice but some stare, like you're some kind of zoo exhibit and not a real person with real feelings. Emma Watson
zoos people looks
A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at. David Sedaris
zoos heart fighting
What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences. Abbe Pierre
zoos animal wife
Mitt Romney is quite a guy. At one point he and his wife bought a zoo and fired all the animals. David Letterman
expression freedom lived states united
See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you've got the money! E. Hicks
expression sly
On the sly, scoping for love. Aretha Franklin
expression simplicity form
Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form. Bruce Lee
expression long strange
What a long strange trip it's been. Jerry Garcia
expression violence impotence
Violence is an expression of impotence. Hannah Arendt
expression dialect fifteen
The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects. I grew up speaking about seven of them. Ishmael Beah
expression soul pilots
Take me to the pilot of your soul. Elton John
expression adequate sides
The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of adequate expression; otherwise, there would not be so many languages. The 'thing in itself' (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for. Friedrich Nietzsche
expression culture needs
We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture. Jerry Bridges
hands oysters cities
Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell. Jan Morris
hands profound looks
We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women! Burt Ward
hands challenges goes-on
Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge. Carnie Wilson
hands names guy
Check it out. I got a new name tag today." He unclipped it and held it out toward me. I looked at it. "A. GUY." He grinned. "Someone actually asked me what the A stood for," he said, his hand brushing mine as he took the tag back, sliding it into his pocket. "I said Larry. Elizabeth Scott
hands long people
A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere. Bobby Seale
hands style hand-in-hand
I knew style and content went hand in hand. Boy George
hands lord results
It is for us to do those things which the Lord requires at our hands, and leave the result with him. Brigham Young
hands nsa three
When Clapper raised his hand and lied to the American public, was anyone tried? Were any charges brought? Within 24 hours of going public, I had three charges against me. Edward Snowden
hands two doe
Holdsworth is so damned good that I can't cop anything. I can't understand what he's doing. I've got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he'll do it with one hand. Eddie Van Halen