Verne Troyer

My parents taught me to be optimistic and independent. They made me feel that I could do anything I set my mind to, which has really helped me. They didn't make allowances for me because of my height. I had to do everything my brother and sister had to do, including raising our animal menagerie that included cows and chickens.

American Actor

Tana French

I read one book where the characters never said anything; instead, they spent all their time grunting and bleating and hissing and cooing and growling and chirping and... It was like a menagerie in there. After a while, I wasn't even taking in the rest of the book, because that was all I could see: the dialogue tags.

Irish Novelist

Eric Goode

But in this case people have hundreds and hundreds of animals, they have a menagerie. You can't possibly love that many animals. So, it's more about the ego and the pride of having all of these things sort of like a car collection or a gun collection.

American Director

Jimmy Reid

Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.

Scottish Activist

Anthony Minghella

The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!

British Director

Tom Shales

Larry King's show got to be an increasingly lonely outpost of humane civility in a mephitic menagerie of hotheads, saber rattlers, cretins and crackpots.

American Writer

Edward Hoagland

When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life with the big cats.

American Author

Sam Heughan

When I was growing up, we had cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens - a whole menagerie.

Scottish Actor

Dan Fogler

In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.

American Comedian

K. A. Applegate

I grew up with a menagerie of dogs, cats, gerbils - not to mention three younger siblings.

Focuses on animals kept for exhibition, not free in the wild.

Captivity Nuance

Historically, a menagerie was a sign of wealth and status for the owner.

Historical Luxury

Menageries often contain exotic or unusual animals, not typical pets.

Rarely Domestic

Used metaphorically to refer to a diverse or eclectic group of people.

Metaphorical Use

Can sometimes suggest a chaotic or unruly group when describing people.

Possible Derogatory

Describes a microcosm representing various backgrounds, often celebrated in cultural contexts.

Cultural Expression

 And, you know, on and on -- a whole menagerie. When you pick up something like this -- and some of you have had the chance to touch it -- this is a piece of history. You're touching something that's 110 million years old. This is a thumb claw. There it was, moments after it was discovered. It is an incredible view of life,

Paul Sereno: What can...

 to have forests ourselves to survive and we need to protect giant tracts of habitat this is a this is one of the remarkable things about about zoos people don't realize is that they are conservation centers now good zoos conservation centers not simple menageries anymore fact this female she

Every Animal Deserves a...

 Treasure houses of politicians and generals were filled with the spoils of war, and royal menageries displayed exotic animals to the public on special occasions, like gladiator tournaments. As you can see, we have a lion here and a gladiator,

Why do we have museums?...

 because the wilderness said so ah I have a menagerie beneath my ribs and under my bony skull and within my red valve heart and I've got something else