Quotes by Zoos The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby gorilla at the zoo, or by threats to endangered species; but developments in farming techniques that deprive millions of animals of freedom of movement go unreported. Peter Singer animal zoos baby [On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea.' You know, we eat - the others watch. Princess Margaret usual tea zoos The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. Rachel Carson ocean nature zoos Film is my passion. I had no money, after Human Zoo. I was completely broke. It was horrible. My film was in Berlin on opening night, but I couldn't even get to Berlin. Rie Rasmussen passion zoos night We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism. Rigoberta Menchu racism zoos past Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the end of this century. We are not myths of the past, ruins in thejungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims ofintolerance and racism. Rigoberta Menchu latin zoos past The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper. Robert Breault earth animal zoos 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 zoos blood 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 gone complaining zoos Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me. Rodney Dangerfield zoos men kids What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with an actual ability to be "aware"? The impression of a "conscious presence" is indeed very strong with me when I look at a dog or a cat or, especially, when an ape or monkey at the zoo looks at me. I do not ask that they are "self-aware" in any strong sense (though I would guess that an element of self-awareness can be present). All I ask is that they sometimes simply feel! Roger Penrose strong dog zoos I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped. Rodney Dangerfield zoos kids children My wife a great driver, she once hit a deer. It was in a zoo. There is a pair of shoes on the dashboard. They belong to the last guy she hit Rodney Dangerfield humor zoos funny The Zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. But there it was, I wanted to see an oyster-catcher and I was no better than the people who'd caged oyster-catchers for me to see. Russell Hoban freedom animal zoos Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing. S. Jay Olshansky animal zoos long Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country. Sam Simon animal zoos country I still haven't gotten over this thing of walking down the street and somebody recognizing you because you've been in a movie. There's this illusion that movie stars only exist in the movies. And to see one live is like seeing a leopard let out of the zoo. Sam Shepard leopards stars zoos This really isn't a game we really should be proud of. This game is liking taking your kids to the zoo. You're supposed to take your kids to the zoo. You're a father. So a team like that, we're supposed to beat them like this. Shaquille O'Neal team basketball zoos 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 black hippie zoos Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam. Spiro T. Agnew patriotic hippie zoos «1234567891011»
