"Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo Sapiens in all its varying forms, perhaps then we would understand ourselves better. The question of course is whether the other animals would approve of it."

-- Cees Nooteboom

#Zoos Quotes #Animal Quotes #World Quotes

“Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it...”
“In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic debasement of the Negro at times almost to the point of starvation.”
“I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.”
“My mom could be really fierce. A regular Frau Badass.”
“Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?”
“You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.”

Source : Jonathan Carroll (2005). “Outside the Dog Museum”, p.89, Macmillan
“We didn't have a TV because we didn't have a whole lot of money. My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?”
“I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.”

Source : "General Peter Pace". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. November 7, 2005.

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