Zoos Quotes - Page 4

• Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.

  Alison Lurie

  Travel, Animal, Thinking

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• 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.

  Winston Churchill

  Wife, Curiosity, Matter

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

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• There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.

  Irene Dunne

  Animal, Hollywood, Normal

  "How Do I Stay Normal in Hollywood". Movie Radio Guide, April 25, 1942.

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• I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.

  Axl Rose

  Car, Shows

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• I was always fascinated with animals and I wanted to go to the zoo all the time. When I got older and I realized the animals bite, and when they do, most of the time you don't survive it kind of crushed my dream and now I just want to WATCH Discovery Channel.

  Marcus Hudson

  Dream, Animal, Discovery

  Source: prod.www.49ers.clubs.nfl.com

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• I bet it breaks your heart to have two of your friends pine for me the way they do," he said proudly. "Luna...and now Scarlet. They can't keep their hands off of me." "It's just because you are foreign to them. It's like if they went to the zoo and stared at the monkeys. You are the monkey.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Heart, Hands, Two

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• A good zoo," Stella said, "is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam and humans who don't hurt." She pauses, considering her words. "A good zoo is how humans make amends.

  Katherine Applegate

  Hurt, Rooms, Cages

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• They used to have a smoking section at most airports. No more. They now have these glass-encased rooms. You're not just a smoker, you're an example to other people. You're an exhibit at a futuristic zoo.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Airports

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• The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having arboreta where we have trees, all these things have been promoted. Even getting the complete genetic code of various fishes so we can let them pass away and then we'll pull them back. That is science fiction run amok.

  E. O. Wilson

  Running, Animal, Eggs

  Source: blog.cleveland.com

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• It's still relatively rare to have an epidemiologist at a zoo.

  Steve Ross

  Stills

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• Every time you go to the zoo, you prolong the captivity of the animals there! If no one goes to the zoos, there will be no zoos! Destroying the evil is very simple and it is in your hand!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Animal, Simple, Hands

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• 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

  Latin, Past, Government

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• Met someone who works at the zoo. Apparently the panda is a nasty animal.

  Dov Davidoff

  Animal, Pandas, Nasty

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Aug 20, 2011

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

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Children, Kids, Four

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.22, Zondervan

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• [On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea.' You know, we eat - the others watch.

  Princess Margaret

  Tea, Usual, Events

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• 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

  Mean, Race, People

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Mitt Romney is quite a guy. At one point he and his wife bought a zoo and fired all the animals.

  David Letterman

  Animal, Wife, Guy

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• Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?

  Jesse Helms

  Hills, Fence, Chapel Hill

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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

  Animal, Jurassic Park, Territory

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• Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, 'Now I'm going to read my paper' than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.

  Benjamin Spock

  Girl, Father, Boys

  Benjamin Spock (1956). “The Pocket Book of Baby and Child Care”

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• The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they are uselessly separated. In the OED, for example, aardvarks are 19 volumes away from the zoo, yachts are 18 volumes from the beach, and wine is 17 volumes from the nearest corkscrew.

  Mark Forsyth

  Beach, Wine, Example

  Mark Forsyth (2013). “The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language”, p.9, Penguin

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• At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this strange compartmentalization that goes on in America -- a belief that no commercial activities must be allowed inside the park, but permitting unrestrained development outside, even though the landscape there may be just as outstanding. America has never quite grasped that you can live in a place without making it ugly, that beauty doesn't have to be confined behind fences, as if a national park were a sort of zoo for nature.

  Bill Bryson

  Feet, America, Mountain

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.95, VNR AG

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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 someone who was trying to live their life.

  Daniel Craig

  Trying, Want, Study

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• I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Running, Sharks, Elephants

  Wyndham Lewis (1967). “Blasting & Bombardiering”, p.12, Univ of California Press

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• 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.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Hippie, Black, Vietnam

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company

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