Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Bryson

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.

Eddie Van Halen

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.

Elinor Glyn

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.

Augusten Burroughs

To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to be one of them or simply live among them taking notes and photographs.

Edward Abbey

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.

Albert Einstein

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

Abbe Pierre

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.

Paul Simon

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

Alexander Lukashenko

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

Master Kwon

Relationships flourish, when individuality,freedom and growth are respected.

Conan Stevens

Success is the freedom to do what you want, with whom you want, when you want, wherever you want.

Chen Hong

Our forefathers gave their lives for peace and freedom. Our generation has the responsibility to treasure what we have today.

Scott Walker

Maybe in the old days, Sully gets clutched and grabbed there and held down. Now he can spin around three times around three different guys. It gives a guy like that more freedom to move.

Dave Anderson

Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Bhagat Singh

Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.

Benjamin Rush

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Mel Martinez

I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.

Thabo Mbeki

Our political relations can only go from strength to strength,

Ghazi Hamad

We need more talks to settle differences in the political agenda.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

Manouchehr Mottaki

It is a political declaration and it is unjust.

Chris Tarry

I think there is will, political and governmental, for a deal. And its about time.

Bill Vaughan

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Bertrand Russell

Almost all education has a political motive.

Bertrand Russell

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

Asa Hutchinson

I think (Oklahoma) has made it a political issue.