Quotes About Animals In Captivity

#1. wild animals in captivity and humans in civilization share an important quality: we are both examples of species living outside their natural habitats.

John Durant

#2. He didn't like to see animals in captivity. When he looked into their eyes, something in their eyes looked back at him.

Rick Yancey

#3. Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity.

Tippi Hedren

#4. I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.

K.A. Applegate

#5. Sea World's killer whale collection needs constant replenishing. The average life span of the animals in captivity is less than half the average for killer whales in the ocean.

Nina Easton

#6. I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.

K.A. Applegate

#7. I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

Christopher Walken

#8. I was watching a Storyville documentary called 'Blackfish' about killer whales in captivity. I was emotionally drained by the end. It revealed a real behind-the-scenes truth on what we do with animals.

Rupert Evans

#9. Dolphins : Animals that are so intelligent that, within a few weeks of captivity, they can train a man to stand on the edge of their pool and throw them food three times a day.

Hal Roach

#10. Every time you go to the zoo, you prolong the captivity of the animals there! If no one goes to the zoos, there will be no zoos! Destroying the evil is very simple and it is in your hand!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. but there it was. Home was prison was home.

Robert K. Tanenbaum

#12. I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity.

Marion Cotillard

#13. It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

Plautus

#14. Also surprising to scientists have been the recently documented virgin births in captivity of several types of sharks - the hammerhead, the bonnethead (also known as the shovelhead), and the blacktip.

Karen Shanor

#15. The difference between people is that we are all different. If we were the same we would be boring, dull, not that fun. We need to be different if we weren't what type of world would we have?

Lindsey Johnson

#16. Criticism is the fountainhead of control.

Susan Forward

#17. It is up to you whether social, intelligent and wonderful creatures are to be freed from their chains and cages where ruthless people keep them. The animals would, if they could, flee as I did, because a life in captivity is a life full of deprivation.

Natascha Kampusch

#18. We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

William Hazlitt

#19. On entering a place where animals are bred, my first thoughts are always about enslavement. Force. Captivity.

Alice Walker

#20. As long as fathers rule but do not nurture, as long as mothers nurture but do not rule, the conditions favoring the development of father-daughter incest will prevail.

Judith Lewis Herman

#21. I've had a love of animals from birth. I love getting to know other species. We should all be aware that there is not one thing we can give a wild animal in captivity that they need.

Tippi Hedren

#22. It makes me feel like a very special person, that I'm able to make my living with my imagination. I developed a big respect for my calling while I was in school, and it remains with me to this day.

Tommy Lee Jones

#23. We're fifteen to twenty years out of date in how we think about renewables.

Eric Martinot

#24. Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Benjamin Franklin

#25. That which does not kill us makes us stronger," Jesse deadpans.
"Exactly. Exactly."
Self-improvement through adversity... it isn't bullshit. Exhibit A: my little brother. I can see every muscle in his stomach and shoulders.

Hannah Moskowitz

#26. [T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

George Orwell

#27. I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.

Zbigniew Herbert

#28. Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally ...

Marie Bashkirtseff

#29. What is a godly mother? A godly mother is one who loves the Lord her God with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength and then passionately, consistently, and unrelentingly teaches her child to do the same.

Elizabeth George

#30. Places of confinement providing free food and medical care are called prisons.

John Lilly