Circus Animal Quotes

#1. Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is said
It was the dream itself enchanted me
("The Circus Animal's Desertion")

W.B.Yeats

#2. I think because I'm 6'4 and have blond hair and I didn't dress like any other kind of a boy, people just immediately thought I was some kind of circus animal.

Patrick Wolf

#3. Tradition can not justify such misery. Surely people can enjoy themselves at a non-animal circus with exciting human acts instead?

Claire McClennan

#4. This is a really good circus. It has lions, tigers, dogs, monkeys and about any other animal act you can think of. There are a lot of great acts, and it's a two part, two hour show.

Howard Thompson

#5. The right to lead a life free of fear is a fundamental right of all living beings. But this fundamental right is being brutally violated by humans in animal testing, meat and dairy industry, circus, zoos, aquariums, and sports.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#6. What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.

K.A. Applegate

#7. But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.

Richard Pryor

#8. Toys to deftly pluck up like animal crackers and deposit safely into a crate decorated with friezes of bright circus trains carrying aardvarks, dodos, swift dromedaries, baby elephants, and plastic dinosaurs. A box of mixed metaphors.

Patti Smith

#9. When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.

K.A. Applegate

#10. The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.

Edsger Dijkstra

#11. When I first became involved with PETA, it was on an 'issue-by-issue' basis - they interviewed me in my old apartment about animal abuse in the circus as I sat on a leather sofa.

Steve-O

#12. See this abdicated beast, once king
Of them all, nibble his claws:
Not anger enough left - no, nor despair -
To break his teeth on the bars.

Cecil Day-Lewis

#13. Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

Gerald Brenan

#14. No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the chimpanzees. You can't control them. That's why you never see a gorilla in a movie, because the gorilla may decide there'll be no filming.

Paul Mooney