Quotes about zoos
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. Spiro T. Agnew
zoos stills
It's still relatively rare to have an epidemiologist at a zoo. Steve Ross
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 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 civilization inmates
Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum. Vance Havner
zoos gone monkeys
I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around like that?" Robin Williams
zoos freedom animal
The zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. I wanted to see an oyster-catcher, so I was no better than the people who caged the oyster-catcher for me to see. Russell Hoban
zoos children kids
I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped. Rodney Dangerfield
zoos kids men
Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.
zoos reading blood
I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the way up to its head; but it is hard to imagine that anyone would conclude tht giraffes do not have long necks. At least not anyone who had ever been to a zoo Robert Solow
zoos wife curiosity
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
zoos home animal
Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em at play, either back home in their native state, or after they've been captured and sent to a zoo, or to Washington. Will Rogers
zoos fall animal
...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory. Yann Martel
zoos acres fit
It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.
zoos animal men
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
zoos wall father
Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.
zoos animal jail
A zoo is not an ideal place for an animal - of course the best place for a chimp is the wilds of Tanzania - but a good zoo is a decent, acceptable place. Animals are far more flexible than we realize. IF they weren't, they wouldn't have survived. But my opinion about zoos came after research. Initially I had the opinion that most people have, that they are jails.
zoos civilization territory
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
zoos people grace
I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.