Captivity Quotations

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.

After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.

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.

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.

Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such enterprises are part of the commercial entertainment industry. The most important lesson they teach impressionable young minds is that it is acceptable to keep animals in captivity for human amusement.

It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you're really stuck with them in some sense. You can't return them to the wild.

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

The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women’s freedoms in southern Somalia – that type of mentality – that’s what I had to deal with in captivity.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A distinctly higher moral tone appears in the writings called by his name, and this is especially noticeable in the 'Second Isaiah,' who wrote after the Babylonish captivity.

One very obvious indication elephants don't do well in captivity is the fact that zoos are having so much trouble breeding them.

I'd like to offer my plea to the people of America, not the government of America, a plea for my release from captivity and also a plea for a release from captivity of all the people of Iraq who are also suffering the same fate. And that is the occupation of the American troops and the British troops which has brought me to this condition and has brought the Iraqi people to the condition they're in.

She's among the oldest female marmosets in captivity that's still giving birth.

Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.

We need to have clear guidance, in law, that makes it very clear that inhumane treatment of detainees in American captivity is absolutely unacceptable. This problem is hurting us around the world. It's contrary to our values, and we simply must have this as part of the final bill.

Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

What we're trying to do is trying to have reproduction of species in captivity so that if we do lose them in the wild, there's an option.

Coalition forces rescued American Roy Hallums and an Iraqi citizen from captivity in an isolated farm house located 15 miles (25 kilometres) south of Baghdad,

Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

There's only one solution to the tragic, the embarrassing elephant problem going on at (the zoo), and it's to release those elephants from captivity and place them in a sanctuary.

In August 1914, my father was called to war and then taken prisoner. He died in captivity in Germany on March 27, 1915. My youth - indeed, my entire life - was deeply marked by this, directly and indirectly.

I'm eager to tell my story of rescue and captivity but I need a little time.

I'm not convinced that taking these animals that were from the wild and putting them into captivity for the rest of their lives is in their best interest.

freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.

All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.

The educational value of sharks in captivity is overrated.

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

I'd say for myself personally, the lowest point was probably a couple of weeks into the captivity after a week of isolation, ... Just prior to our Red Cross visit may have been the hardest time.

The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.

I can't mate in captivity.

Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.

Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.

There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary confinement

I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.

There is no sorrow except in captivity.

I’m not a mean person, but I have a capacity for it. I have the biting comment formed somewhere in the back of my head — like it’s in captivity. Sometimes people expect that I’m going to be tough. It’s not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.

For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there be reason to the contrary not to listen unto it, but to follow like beasts the first in the herd, they know not, nor care not whither, this were brutish.

The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity.

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.