Zoos Quotes - Page 8

• Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.

  Gerry Cheevers

  Hockey, Thinking, Nhl

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• We are facing an enormous crisis in Africa right now in terms of illegal wildlife trafficking, which is decimating animal populations, destroying local economies, and funding armed insurgencies and terrorist syndicates. If we do not find solutions to this crisis now, there will be little habitat left beyond sparse areas of national parks that will serve as glorified zoos to small pockets of remaining animals.

  David Jeremiah Barron

  Animal, Habitat, Littles

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• I like to do chill things on dates. I think it would be fun to go to the zoo. I know it's really weird and random, but I love animals. It'd be like a day of doing silly things, while enjoying nature.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Fun, Silly, Animal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.

  Garry Winogrand

  New York, Children, Distance

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.

  Betty White

  Book, Animal, Los Angeles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Stupid, Mean, Cities

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm also not an avid watcher of the show ['Walking Dead'] for no good reason. I think it's obviously a great show. I think it's a good comparison [to "Zoo"], because it is this apocalyptic world we're living in Season 2 of "Zoo."

  James Wolk

  Thinking, Avid, Walking Dead

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• National parks, zoos, protected areas, polluted seas - using the whole world as a readymade, I thought about it as a stage set. To activate a stage set you need a drama, an actor to offset it.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Drama, Sea, Parks

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Animal, Environmental

  Interview with Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo Sapiens in all its varying forms, perhaps then we would understand ourselves better. The question of course is whether the other animals would approve of it.

  Cees Nooteboom

  Animal, Should Have, World

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• People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.

  Lorne Michaels

  People, Laughing, Scary

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• This is an extremely foolish and stupid and idiotic kind of attitude - to expect theatres to make money. Do the public schools make money? Do libraries make money? Does the zoo make money? D o the sewers make money? It's a community service.

  John Hirsch

  Attitude, Stupid, School

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• Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

  Ogden Nash

  Basketball, Games, People

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• You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs like tug boats and morals that would surprise a zoo animal.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Girl, Animal, Men

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• Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You know, everything needs to be left alone.

  George Harrison

  Men, Space, Important

  "I, Me, Mine". Book by George Harrison, 1979.

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• 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

  Snakes, Earth Day, Would Be

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

  Iain Banks

  Rome, Violence, Would Be

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• So, not only am I panicking over the weekend if I need to know my lines, but also if can I get the kids to the zoo. Can I even go to church? I was asking for certain things that would allow me to plan my life a little better.

  Hunter Tylo

  Kids, Weekend, Church

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• 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

  Reading, Blood, Long

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• There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit and it goes by the name of London. At the top of the hole sit the privileged few Making mock of the vermin in the lonely zoo turning beauty to filth and greed... I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders, for the cruelty of men is as wonderous as Peru but there's no place like London!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Lonely, Men, Pigs

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• 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

  Guitar, One Day, Technique

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• When I take my kids to the zoo in Los Angeles, they always look the longest at the creature that moves the least - especially those in the reptile house. I asked myself: 'Who are the people that are pretty cool but also very still and monotone in their expression?' and I thought of Jose Mourinho.

  Julian Sands

  Soccer, Football, Moving

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• 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

  Animal, Land, Hollywood

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• He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers.

  Martin Bashir

  Children, Covered Up, Literature

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• I'm less upset with politicians than the media. I feel like politicians, there is a certain, inherent - you know, the way I always explain it is, when you go to the zoo and a monkey throws its feces, it's a monkey. But, when the zookeeper is standing right there, and he doesn't say bad monkey... Somebody's got to be the zookeeper.

  Jon Stewart

  Media, Upset, Monkeys

  "Jon Stewart: The Most Trusted Name In Fake News". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 4, 2010.

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