Zoo Veterinarian Quotes & Sayings

I hear and forget. I see and hear and I remember. However, when I see, hear and do, I understand and succeed. — Zig Ziglar

every Chinese person is familiar with Kongzi, or 'Master Kong', as Confucius is known in Chinese. — Meher McArthur

The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is a visual temper tantrum. You are making an ineffective statement about this and that, a grotesque, self-defeating mockery of cultural standards of beauty, societal misogyny. It is a blow to your parents, at whom you are pissed. — Marya Hornbacher

Danger is to a conqueror what excitement is to a gambler — Matshona Dhliwayo

I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it. — Emily Mortimer

Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents." --Cousin Jasper — Evelyn Waugh

Within a few months Mitch Bush, head veterinarian at the National Zoo, and David Wildt, a young reproductive physiologist working as a postdoctoral fellow in my laboratory at the National Cancer Institute, were on a plane bound for South Africa. Bush is a towering, bearded, giant of a man with a strong interest and acumen in exotic animal veterinary medicine, particularly the rapidly improving field of anesthetic pharmacology. Wildt is a slight and modest Midwestern farm boy, schooled in the reproductive physiology of barnyard animals. His boyish charm and polite shy demeanor mask a piercing curiosity and deep knowledge of all things reproductive. Bush and Wildt's expedition to the DeWildt cheetah breeding center outside Pretoria would ultimately change the way the conservation community viewed cheetahs forever. — Stephen J. O'Brien

I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus. — Kay Redfield Jamison

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. — Thomas Fuller

Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you end up finding and inventing however you want to play it. — Bryce Dessner