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Top 8 Zoos Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 8 of the best zoos quotes ever written, picked out of the full zoos archive on QuoteForever. You will find Princess Margaret, Benjamin Spock, H. L. Mencken and Clare Boothe Luce among them.

Read the list top to bottom, or use it as a starting point - every author name links to everything else they said, and every quote has its own page you can share or turn into an image.

1

Princess Margaret / Countess Of Snowdon

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

2

Benjamin Spock / Pediatrician

Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, 'Now I'm going to read my paper' than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.

3

H. L. Mencken / Journalist

Why do men go to zoos?

4

Clare Boothe Luce / Former U.S. Congresswoman

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

5

Gerry Cheevers / Ice Hockey Player

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

6

Hugh Lofting / Author

If I had my way... there wouldn't be a single lion or tiger in captivity anywhere in the world. They never take to it. They're never happy. They never settle down... You can see it in their eyes.

7

James Patterson / Author

For me, "Zoo" has always been a fable. It has nothing to do with realism. It's a fable about what man is doing to the world, and the animals have retribution. But in the real world, this would not happen. But in the world of 1984, this kind of thing can happen in a story.

8

Matthew Zapruder / Poet

When I saw the sun bears at the Oakland Zoo, I immediately was drawn to them. Not to be ornery, but regarding what you said about the speaker identifying with the bear: I'm not sure it's exactly right to say that the speaker feels that the bear must share his sadness, or whatever else he is feeling. That would be classic pathetic fallacy, which is certainly generative for poetry, but here the speaker appears actually to be rejecting that idea.

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