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Quotes About Zoo

They can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What does that even mean?
~ Adam Rex
Well – at least Binky's in a zoo.' 'Yes, he's in a zoo, where they keep wild hunting dogs and lions. They all get on so well, it's like Madagascar 3 in here.
~ Danny Wallace
But I can't offer you a zoo at St Mary's. Can you make do with what I have?' 'With Hoddim and Guthrie and Blacklock? What you have is a zoo.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Sometimes she even thought of animals asleep in a zoo, in their make-believe jungles and savannahs, meticulously cared for by day but, sleeping at night, wild as could be in their dreams, watched by the silent, all-seeing, all-forgiving moon.
~ Julia Glass
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
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
I smile thinly, to make it clear that this will happen when hell turns into a family friendly summer resort.
~ Lauren Beukes, Zoo City
I have a lot of mice, I have a kitten named 'Girr,' I have an iguana named 'Invader Zim,' I have some fish, a whole buncha water snails, and a tarantula named 'Sweet Pea.'
~ Matthew Underwood
At school, our classroom had a small rodent zoo consisting of two rabbits, three hamsters, a litter of baby gerbils and a guinea pig. At first, I'd thought the teacher was raising snack food, which impressed me, being the first sign of intelligence she'd shown. Soon, though, I'd figured out the animals' true purpose and left them alone, though I would never understand the appeal of petting and coddling perfectly good food.
~ Kelley Armstrong
After this, he'd probably be going to zoos, climbing the enclosure, saying, 'Here, watch this...' Famous last words, as yet another unfit human is removed from the gene pool.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative power of animals. She seemed to think that it must steady him to look at a buffalo.
~ Nathanael West
Chicago—this vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, Mace-smelling boneyard of a city; an elegant rockpile monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.
~ William McKeen
Not nuclear or chemical. Biological," Banks replied. "The colonel says that the word is it's more in the line of a rich man's zoo—exotic animals and such. Some Russian oilman's plaything is what I was told. Why it warrants a UN inspection is above our pay grade. The job's as simple as fuck.
~ William Meikle
At London Zoo, a girl leaped over the wall at the penguin enclosure. She thought that by tugging her pullover over her head, waddling and catching a fish in her mouth she could pass herself off as a penguin.
~ David Walliams
Sa curiosité le pousse quand même à visiter le zoo de Berne où Émile se réjouit de voir enfin des singes, espèce qui n'a pas encore droit de séjour en Tchécoslovaquie. Mais les singes ont l'air méchants, aigris, amers, perpétuellement vexés d'avoir raté l'humanité d'un quart de poil. Ça les obsède à l'évidence, ils ne pensent qu'à ça. Ils seraient prêts à le faire payer.
~ Jean Echenoz
La distance biologique entre un chimpanzé sur son île du Parc zoologique de Paris et l'enfant qui le découvre, émerveillé, est bien plus courte que celle qui sépare le chimpanzé des macaques et des babouins qui s'agitent dans leur enclos, de l'autre côté de l'allée. Si le zoo hébergeait encore des gorilles, aux heures d'ouverture les plus proches parents seraient rassemblés : chimpanzés, gorilles et visiteurs.
~ Jean-Jacques Hublin
Zoo wee mama
~ Jeff Kinney
A few grumpy horns and hoofs types and a petting zoo full of rabid Pokemons? I'm Satan. I can deal with that and play "Smoke on the Water" while getting a lap dance on a runaway train all at the same time.
~ Richard Kadrey
We lived like that "Happy Family" you sometimes see in traveling zoos: a lion caged with a lamb. It is a startling exhibit but the lamb has to be replaced frequently.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
It was a club rule that monkeys had to be diapered or they would not be admitted.
~ Kent Anderson
And he was athletic in a lean sort of way, his long legs able to keep up with me whenever I coerced him into driving me out to the zoo for their early open hours for runners only; those hills were killers on the calves.
~ Kim Harrison
Newt turned back to me, her eyes black as the sun slipped away. From the slump of broken castle, a rock fell. "We exist in a zoo," she said, chilling me. "You know that, yes? I hope our funding doesn't run out. I'd give anything for a better enclosure, one that at least hides the bars.
~ Kim Harrison
You dropped me in the penguin enclosure?... Now it makes sense," Valkyrie said, collapsing onto the couch. "My fear of zoos. My fear of penguins. My fear of being dropped in a zoo with the penguins. It's all Dad's fault.
~ Derek Landy
The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.
~ Robert Brault