"Adult gorillas will fight to the death defending their families. This is why poachers who may be seeking only one infant for the zoo trade must often kill all the adults in the family to capture the baby."

-- Sy Montgomery

#Baby Quotes #Zoos Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Sometimes, and those times are many, wisdom demands that we remain silent. This is such a time.”
“The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.”
“People peep into boxes at moving stereoscopic prints, imagining they're in other worlds, and the crowd around a glassblower wonders whether icicles have formed in summer. Potted trees revive and suddenly look fresh when a florist sprinkles water on them, while papier-mÃ¢chÃ© turtles hanging out for sale move in the wind and take on souls.”

Source : Haruo Shirane (2013). “Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900”, p.210, Columbia University Press
“We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.”
“Al Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it.”

Source : "DVD RE-RUN: Jehane Noujaim On 'Control Room': 'My Loyalties Are to the Characters'". Interview with Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. October 25, 2004.
“When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.”
“I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Hamish's right arm was around Angus's waist as the two of them tangoed past.”

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