cages Quotes

“No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Here is a simple operational test: the chimpanzees invariably are the one behind the bars of their cages.”

“God, How boring! The man’s a complete turnip. Take him away and put him in a cage. ”

“I, who had always run where I wanted, could go three hops forward, three hops back again. And that was all.”

“I’ve never wanted to live inside a cage like a bear in the zoo!”

“She had felt an unexpected spasm of concern for the little creatures in the cage. She took a duster down to the gate and draped it over the cage. It would protect the inmates from the cold. (It would also disguise the cage a little.) ‘You know how to look after these gerbil-things?’ Mrs Sparrow asked. ‘Oh, yes! We had gerbils once. We had a gerbil farm.‘”

“Sid Parker crouched on the floor, in front of a cage in which two mouse-like creatures had frozen into stillness on the instant. One had been working a little treadmill fastened to the inside of a cage wall. The other had been gnawing at one of the bars of the cage.”

“It wouldn’t be fair to Mario. I’ll just have to serve out the time.”

“The director of the zoo was very angry because Barbapapa had left his cage, and he ordered Barbapapa to leave the zoo forever.”

“A robin red-breast in a cage, puts all of Heaven in a rage.”