Top 249 Zoo Quotes & Sayings

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

I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.

A good zoo," Stella said, "is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam and humans who don't hurt." She pauses, considering her words. "A good zoo is how humans make amends.

I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo.... It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor in that form. In a word, it was nothing but a zoo, you can't put it better

Yosemite Valley is like a tourist zoo. It's shameful.

Living in a zoo means it wasn't always sparkly dresses, but I would still dress up. I had this pink sparkly dress and fairy wings, and I'd put those on and then go and dance in the zoo.

We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.

Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

The only thing I like about St. Louis is it has the best zoo in America, in Forest Park. Washington University is next door to the zoo. Animals get out, they're going to eat white people before they get to the ghetto!

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

Mitt Romney is quite a guy. At one point he and his wife bought a zoo and fired all the animals.

Comedians are the monkeys of acting. When you go to the zoo, everybody loves the monkey exhibit.

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.

The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.

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

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

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."

I'd have worked with an orchestra, been a chef, or a zoo keeper.

I have made multiple videos telling fans not to come to our house. I feel like a zoo animal.

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more 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.

Those who take knowledge to be a whole zoo of sub-disciplines will react to my giving metaphysics a privileged position in that zoo or to my thinking of knowledge as a tree, with more and less fundamental parts.

I have spent my entire life living in a zoo, which is pretty crazy. Not many kids get to say that, and it took me until I was about three years old to realize that we didn't just come to the zoo every day, that we actually lived here.

Unlike accredited zoos like the Bronx Zoo, San Diego Zoo, the Los Angeles Zoo, these are private menageries, and these people are frightened and there is an existential fear that they are going to be shut down by the government, by PETA, by HSUS, by animal rights groups. So they, generally, are very guarded.

And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal.

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.

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.

[On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea.' You know, we eat - the others watch.

The zoo cannot but disappoint.

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

Met someone who works at the zoo. Apparently the panda is a nasty animal.

I live in a zoo I run scandals with savages

It's still relatively rare to have an epidemiologist at a zoo.

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?"

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

I have cats, dogs, monkeys and ducks at home - it's like a mini zoo.

Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.

I have a complicated relationship with the zoo; maybe everyone does. It's so wonderful and so sad.

Am I my brother's keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo.

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.

I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped.

When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.

When I was little, my parents took me to the San Diego Zoo. I was about 5 years old, and I got a tour of the zoo that hardly anybody else has ever had.

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.

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

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

I view my own body as a petting zoo. I am the main attraction... And the only customer.

The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal's gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.

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

For actors in Hollywood, it's very straightforward. We're well-paid animals in a zoo.

Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.

Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.

Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?

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.

I'm pretty restless in bed, so I can lie there for a couple of hours and be like, 'Hey, that happened today. What if that happened at a zoo?' I'll jot the idea down. Then I'm like, 'All right, so now that it's a zoo, that penguin's loose,' or, whatever. I usually start with broad ideas.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

I love zoo sanctuaries.

Always, ever since I was a little girl, my house has been basically a zoo.