Quotes about zoo
zoos kids men
Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me. Rodney Dangerfield
zoos believe thinking
...people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal. Mark Haddon
zoos tea watches
[On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea.' You know, we eat - the others watch. Princess Margaret
zoos stupid mad
It is hard to get mad at Donald Trump for saying stupid things, in the same way you don't get mad at a monkey when he throws poop at you at the zoo... What does get me angry is the ridiculous, disingenuous defending of the poop-throwing monkey. Jon Stewart
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 kids littles
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 good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second. John Irving
zoos opportunity animal
The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal's gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond. John Berger
zoos culture break-out
Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out. Edward T. Hall
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
zoo
...The zoo doesn't have to get bigger, it can just get better.
zoos voice space
The voice of the natural world would be, 'could you please give us space and leave us alone to get along with our own lives and our own ways, because we actually know much better how to do it than when you start interfering'' Jane Goodall
zoos mean race
I understand the people-watching, but I've never done it where people have to race to three different shows, from here to there. I mean, the biggest zoo I ever faced was Comic Con, and Comic Con takes place in one big hangar. James Wolcott
zoos parent pet
My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo. Billy Connolly
zoos expression hands
[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. Daniel Quinn
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 cat animal
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. Albert Einstein
zoos memorable views
In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo.... It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor in that form. In a word, it was nothing but a zoo, you can't put it better Alexander Lukashenko
zoos needs national-parks
Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone. Donella Meadows
zoos animal law
I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law. Christopher Walken
zoos prison-population jail
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. Angela Davis
zoos wall eye
Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and jerky like a racehorse’s, he retired behind this wall of objective understanding, this gentle testing and acceptance of her, just as one watches an animal in the zoo and smiles at his antics, but is not drawn into this mood. It was this which left Lilith in a state of isolation - indeed, like a wild animal in an absolute desert. Anais Nin
zoos perfect quality
In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them. Susan Orlean
zoos hippie patriotic
Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam. Spiro T. Agnew
zoos hippie black
As for those deserters, malcontents, radicals, incendiaries, the civil and uncivil disobedients among the young, SDS, PLP, Weathermen I and Weathermen II, the revolutionary action movement, the Black United Front, Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, Lions and Tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for a single platoon of the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.
zoos animal long
Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing. S. Jay Olshansky
zoos congratulations class
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 newsman. At this rate, the class of 2021 will be addressed by a zoo parrot in a mortar-board that has been trained to say "congratulations. Stephen Colbert
zoos want monkeys
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 and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone. Tarsem Singh
zoos stills
It's still relatively rare to have an epidemiologist at a zoo. Steve Ross
zoos latin past
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 end of this century. We are not myths of the past, ruins in thejungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims ofintolerance and racism. Rigoberta Menchu
zoos past racism
We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.
zoos believe mean
For God so loved the world, that whosoever believes in him will, from that point on, be considered weired by the rest of the world, which means the church should be more like a zoo than a tomb of identical mummies. Mike Yaconelli
zoos children mirrors
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. John Updike
zoos fun children
I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo. Nicole Kidman