Antonina Quotes & Sayings

I never know when the seeds are being laid, I'm just like, "Wow, that's a pretty cool scene. Is that? Are we laying seeds here?" — Robert Downey Jr.

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. — Charles Lamb

Europe enjoyed a heritage of fairy tales alive with talking animals--some almost real, other deliciously bogus-- to spark child's fantasies and gallop grownups to the cherished haunts of childhood. It pleased Antonina that her zoo offered on orient of fabled creatures, where book pages sprang alive and people could parley with ferocious animals. — Diane Ackerman

When you say together . . ."
"It'll help if I'm close to you physically."
"I bet you say that to all the girls. — Alexis Hall

I walked, a desert creature, in that fertile land. I felt harsh and dusty. — Anonymous

I reckon he's jealous, because he can see you have more talent than he's got in his little finger. — Cathy Hopkins

I once sat down on a bench at Cape Town railway station where the notice "Whites Only" was obscured. A few moments later a white man approached and shouted: 'Get off!' It never occurred to him that he was achieving the opposite of his dreams of superiority and had become a living object of contempt, that human beings, when they are human, dare not conduct themselves in such ways. — Bessie Head

Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood. — Pete Townshend

You know a real friend?
Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone. — William S. Burroughs

Antonina felt convinced that people needed to connect more with their animal nature, but also that animals long for human company, reach out for human attention. — Diane Ackerman

The tongue's the sole muscle in your body that's attached at only one end. — Jill Shalvis

Antonina woke in the night to help midwife an animal like a giraffe (always tricky because the mother gives birth standing up, the calf falls headfirst, and the mother doesn't want help anyway). This — Diane Ackerman

Where ever men go, in heaven, or earth, or hell they find themselves, and that
is all they find. — Burton Blatt