Zoo Quotes

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.
Abbe Pierre

Women, Men, Fight

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
Angela Davis

Human, Dangerous, Break

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
Daniel Craig

Life, Live, Someone

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, May, Found

I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.
Nicole Kidman

Love, Fun, Acting

I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!
Betty White

Time, Health, Same

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
Billy Connolly

Pet, Parents, Tell

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar

Human, Study, Place

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

Someone, Happening

I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.
Betty White

Life, Love, Business

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

Book, Middle, Angeles

I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful, wonderful animal pictures. All through the years he's given me copies of these pictures. Well, I have all these gorgeous ones, so I said, 'Tad, I want to do a book with your picture on one side.'
Betty White

Book, Through, Said

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
Igor Stravinsky

Family, Die, Idiot

I got access to a private tour of the zoo. I got to go in a cage with a koala, which I highly recommend.
Todd Barry

Private, Tour, Cage

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
Desmond Morris

Human, City, Jungle

It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.
Kevin Bacon

Old, Monkey, Anonymous

When I was six years old, my parents took me to this farmers' market with a petting zoo. They put me on a pony and, for some reason, it took off at a run and they had to chase it down. They tell me it was kind of traumatic.
David Schwimmer

Parents, Down, Old

I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second.
John Irving

Good, Student, Found

Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.
Gary Bauer

Today, Children, Human

Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Peter De Vries

Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.
Jim Fowler

Director, Formal, Marlon

Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.
Jack Hanna

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

Love, Nature, Fun

My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.
Patrick Rothfuss

Mom, Lost, Between

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

Life, Kids, Plan

I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo.
Bindi Irwin

Love, Birthday, Australia

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, Why, Concerned

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.
Keegan Allen

Love, Great, Humanity

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

Nature, Alone, True

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
Desmond Morris

Human, City, Clearly

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