![[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 snakes earth-day
A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum. Edward Abbey
zoos guitar one-day
I went to the zoo one day and saw a chimp playing with a beat-up acoustic guitar in a way I had never seen before. Instead of using the pick the chimp was banging the neck and tapping it with its fingers. I knew the chimp was on to something so I practiced this new technique in my room for hours until I'd perfected it. Eddie Van Halen
zoos animal land
Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth. I am never quite certain if I am visiting the zoo, or if I'm one of the animals in a cage. Elinor Glyn
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 thinking people
I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign. Carl Sagan
zoos animal cells
What do the animals do in the zoo? That's the same thing that I do in my cell. I play with myself. I make little string dolls. I talk to roaches. I'm in jail for nine counts of murder, and I didn't do it. I'm in solitary confinement, may I add. Charles Manson
zoos animal exotic
what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's solitary (you can, so they say, be alone in a crowded room) or full of exotic animals (there are more at the zoo). it's that five miles out in the woods you can't buy anything. Bill McKibben
zoos mistake color
Newt Gingrich was campaigning at a zoo this week and he was bitten by a penguin. Newt Gingrich is always campaigning at zoos. Mitt Romney once did a photo op at a zoo. That was a big mistake, because he stood next to the chameleon, and HE changed colors. Bill Maher
zoos average ideas
We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos. Bob Barker
expression kindness leaving living
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. Mother Teresa
expression genuine soft speech sweet
Soft sweet speech is the expression of genuine love. Sathya Baba
expression numbers age
Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion. Dennis Prager
expression dancer firsts
Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer. Denis Lavant
expression rights doe
the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do. Eleanor Roosevelt
expression timing
I feel like it was just timing and that for the first time, I feel like this is an expression of who I am. Mariah Carey
expression freedom hurts stops
Freedom of expression stops when it hurts someone. Zaki Safar
expression abundance
Having everything is just an expression of complete inner freedom. Deepak Chopra
expression divinity miraculous
When we begin to experience our life as the miraculous expression of divinity - not occasionally, but all the time - then we will know the true meaning of success.
hands lay lowly punish severity
lay its hands on the lowly murderers and will punish them with all severity of the law. Ehud Barak
hands interview kinda people sheet skill
One of my first questions when I interview prospective employees is, 'Do you know how big a sheet of plywood is?' Most people don't, and say they are different sizes, but it's 4' x 8'. Anyway, working with your hands is a very American thing that we kinda lost here, but it's an important skill to have. Casey Neistat
hands paid
My hands were in the movie. I got paid $45.
hands loosen
My hands loosen up. My hands use to be so stiff. They loosen up. He's very good.
hands himself works
When he hands you his warm-ups, they are soaking wet. He works himself into a lather.
hands grace mouths
Grace puts its hand on the boasting mouth, and shuts it once for all. Charles Spurgeon
hands eternal
Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip
hands doe wonderful
It is wonderful how God works by our hands, and yet His own hand does it all.
hands yield doe
God does not need your strength: he has more than enough of power of his own. He asks your weakness: he has none of that himself, and he is longing, therefore, to take your weakness, and use it as the instrument in his own mighty hand. Will you not yield your weakness to him, and receive his strength?