Zoo Education Quotes & Sayings

I know full well what being a Dardano means and so will Gianni and Will, but I want more for him. I want him to know what it is to laugh and to play and to not feel like the whole world is out to get him, to find joy in simple things and not just how many zeroes are in his bank account. And more than that, I want them both to grow up and know that power is not everything. It is necessary, yes and I will teach them how to squash their enemies, how to hit first before they can destroy you but I will also teach them that without love, without a family, none of it means a good God damn. I want them to be worthy of that love when it comes, and to not be so wrapped up in this legacy and this power that they lose sight of love when it's right in front of their eyes. — E. Jamie

I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball. — Nolan Bushnell

Being powerful means shifting our minds away from our troubles and into solution-thinking. — Bryant McGill

Gimme the fucking creeps, Doakes grumbled. I began to appreciate the man's finer qualities. Of course I gave him the fucking creeps. The only real question was why he was the only one in a room filled with cops who had the insight to get the fucking creeps from my presence. — Jeff Lindsay

The current financial crisis calls out for new products and services as well as more, not less, information about what is safe and profitable in the future environment. — Jeremy Siegel

It felt like waiting for something to happen. Which has to be the worth part of being young. So many of your decisions aren't yours; they're made by other people. Sometimes they're made badly by other people. Sometimes they're made by other people who have no idea what the consequences of those decisions might be. The bastards. — Patrick Ness

The trumpet is forceful. — Lester Bowie

I love using the latest technologies to make life more efficient, but I don't want to advocate that technology replaces the need to get together and enjoy human connections with people. — Maynard Webb

The Indians , whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and civility in their discourses and conversation, giving one another a fair silent hearing till they have quite done; and then answering them calmly, and without noise or passion. And if it be not so in this civiliz'd part of the world, we must impute it to a neglect in education, which has not yet reform'd this antient piece of barbarity amongst us. — John Locke

Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life. — Mason Cooley

We all need good manners, like our friends from the zoo! — Lorraine Loria

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. — William Blake

I want to stay hidden in this apartment forever. I want to be kept like a house cat. — Nic Sheff

Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose ... he is the value-shaper, the exemplar, the maker of meanings ... he is the true artist, the true pathfinder. — Tom Peters

We don't have to talk about faith and family at dinner-we just show it. — Joel Osteen

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them. — Barbara Deming

A zoo is a cultural institution. Like a public library, like a museum, it is at the service of popular education and science. And by that token, not much of a money-making venture for the Greater Good and the Greater Profit are not compatible aims. — Yann Martel