Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Hoban

The zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. I wanted to see an oyster-catcher, so I was no better than the people who caged the oyster-catcher for me to see.

Vance Havner

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 operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

Robin Williams

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?"

Rodney Dangerfield

I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped.

Rodney Dangerfield

Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.

Robert Solow

I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the way up to its head; but it is hard to imagine that anyone would conclude tht giraffes do not have long necks. At least not anyone who had ever been to a zoo

Will Rogers

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 back home in their native state, or after they've been captured and sent to a zoo, or to Washington.

Winston Churchill

A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.

Yann Martel

...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 amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.

Harlan Ellison

K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Will Durant

In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

Rose Macaulay

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

Woodrow Wilson

The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

Will Cuppy

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

Will Durant

Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.

Will Durant

For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.

Will Durant

A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.

Dick Hawks

The inmates understand our concerns. They just want good, usable items.

Joe Schmidt

The inmates are very willing to do this type of work. It's something they can do to better serve the community.

Larry Todd

The inmates are doing everything they're told and spending plenty of time using squeegees and mops,

Eric Schlosser

The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

Warden Rustin

It was a combination of sheets that were braided together -- pieces of an inmates uniform that were braided together.

Kim Coates

I started out in 1985, and I was Inmate #1 in every prison movie made from '85 to '93.

John Fougere

We spend a lot of time saving the lives of inmates who, quite frankly, don't want to be saved.

Bruce Perry

We don't want to make the meals too good. The inmates might not want to leave.