Giraffes Quotes

“You should try getting some sleep.”
Sloane frowned. “Giraffes only sleep four and a half hours a day.”
-Sloane”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“We all can dance," he said, "when we find music that we love.”
― Giles Andreae, Giraffes Can't Dance

“Our souls are made of water, Goethe says. So too, our bodies. There is a flow within us, rising and falling, unidirectional, to the heart. there is a flow without also. We circulate. We are drawn up, and we fall back down to earth again. It's all haemodynamics.”
― J.M. Ledgard, Giraffe

“I have seen the Virgin
in an appletree at Chartres
And Saint Joan burn
at the Bella Union.
I have seen giraffes in junglejims
their necks like love
wound around the iron circumstances
of the world.
I have seen the Venus Aphrodite
armless in her drafty corridor.
I have heard a siren sing
at One Fifth Avenue.
I have seen the White Goddess dancing
in the Rue des Beaux Arts
on the Fourteenth of July
and the Beautiful Dame Without Mercy
picking her nose in Chumley's.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind

“Never trust a woman who wants to see your giraffe.”
― Rutledge, Lynda West with Giraffes

“Never trust a woman who wants to see your giraffe.”
― Rutledge, Lynda

“One young giraffe, Marius, made international news in what became a very public display of management euthanasia by the Copenhagen Zoo. When Marius was born, his fate was in the hands of Jörg Jebram, who is the giraffe coordinator for the EAZA. When the giraffe turned one, Jebram informed the Copenhagen Zoo that the giraffe was "genetically unnecessary" (Kaufman, 2012, p. 1). Despite multiple offers for placement at alternative zoological facilities and sanctuaries, the Copenhagen Zoo ignored such offers and continued plans to execute Marius. On the morning of February 9, 2014, Marius was led out from the giraffe house and into the adjacent yard. He was fed a slice of rye bread and when he stood up, and while chewing the tasty treat, he was shot in the head by a zoo employee who had been waiting with a loaded Winchester Rifle. The execution of Marius was not well received by the public, nor was the public dissection of his corpse. Chris Zimmerman, doctoral researcher at the Copenhagen Business School, counted over two hundred and thirty thousand Marius-related tweets, in both English and Danish, expressing outrage over Marius' tragic fate (Kaufman, 2012).”
― Eve D'Vincent, Captive Ambassadors: The Hidden Lives of Zoo Animals