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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
wall men church
Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life. Charles Spurgeon
wall men giving
We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with it - the Holy Ghost changing the will of man. O Sirs! We might as well preach to stone walls as preach to humanity unless the Holy Ghost be with the word, to give it power to convert the soul.
wall home garden
Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city. Charles Portis
wall hiking trying
I'm trying to climb up both walls at once. Charles Olson
wall traits hard
I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along. Diane Keaton
wall confused class
When I see the mostly young people of Occupy Wall Street - a mixture of the bored, the nihilistic, the seekers of excitement, the left-wing true believers, the confused idealists and those hoping to engage in violence - railing against the rich capitalists on Wall Street, I get worried. Because the hatred they express toward the rich is similar to that expressed against the rich by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Of course, these people are not comparable to those killers. But class hatred must lead to bad things. That is why President Obama is playing with fire with his attacks on the rich. Dennis Prager
wall views religion
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it. Denis Diderot
wall iron burning
I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me? Edgar Allan Poe
wall army hands
There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.
father mind hours
My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day. Alexandra Guarnaschelli
father
Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.' Richard P. Feynman
father glorify good light men shine
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Bible Bible
father love man neither
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
father great mind modesty wonder
So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father Marcus Aurelius
father guy mike second shirt
Mike was the kind of guy who would give the shirt off his back for anyone. He was like a second father to my kids.
father goddesses gods mother notion silly
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods Angela Carter
father judge law study wished
My grandfather was a judge and my grandmother wished that my father Prithviraj Kapoor too would study law and become a judge like her husband. Raj Kapoor
father good honest job mother taught value veteran work
My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.