Cranes Quotes

• The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

  Chanakya

  Education, Wise, Men

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• I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world.

  Sadako Sasaki

  Life, Peace, Passion

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• Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth fluttered under them. The earth was dancing with the cranes, and the low sun, and the wind and sky.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Wind, Sky, Dancing

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1985). “The Yearling”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.

  Mitchell Burgess

  Believe, Wings, Icons

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• To what shall
  I liken the world?
  Moonlight, reflected
  In dewdrops,
  Shaken from a crane's bill.

  Dogen

  Relaxation, World, Bills

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• A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Pain, Falcon

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”, p.44, Penguin UK

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• I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind.

  Anton Chekhov

  Stars, Children, Thinking

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• On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.

  Aldo Leopold

  Sky, Wings, New Day

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.91, Oxford University Press

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• When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.

  Ove Arup

  Study, Architect, Civil Engineering

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• High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its nearness ... A new day has begun on the crane marsh. A sense of time lies thick and heavy on such a place ... Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

  Aldo Leopold

  Beautiful, Art, Nature

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• I think a person has to believe in something,
  or search out some kind of faith;
  otherwise life is empty, nothing.
  How can you live not knowing why the cranes fly,
  why children are born, why there are stars in the sky...
  Either you know why you live,
  or it's all small, unnecessary bits.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Stars, Children, Believe

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• If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I’ve left behind me.

  Lars von Trier

  Cake, Careers, People

  "INTERVIEW: Lars von Trier Comes Out of the Dark". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. September 22, 2000.

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• I don't really want to be doing high budget, where they've got cranes and everything. That just sounds boring, having to do the same thing over and over again.

  Rider Strong

  Sound, Want, Boring

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• Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not change, it remains for ever, following its own laws which do not concern us, or which, at any rate, you will never find out. Migrant birds, cranes for example, fly and fly, and whatever thoughts, high or low, enter their heads, they will still fly and not know why or where. They fly and will continue to fly, whatever philosophers come to life among them; they may philosophize as much as they like, only they will fly.

  Anton Chekhov

  Years, Law, Two

  Anton Chekhov (2012). “The Three Sisters”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• There's an old saying among scientific guys: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane."

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Science, Eggs

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• Jason: I'm all for hobbies, but you think this is the time for origami? Whatcha making, a crane?

  Rachel Caine

  Thinking, Hobbies, Jason

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn”, p.117, Allison & Busby

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• Faith of Cranes is a love song to the beauty and worth of the lives we are able to lead in the world just as it is, troubled though it be... The writing is honest, intensely lived, and overflowing with heart: broken, mended, and whole.

  David James Duncan

  Song, Writing, Heart

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• Conservation is sometimes perceived as stopping everything cold, as holding whooping cranes in higher esteem than people. It is up to science to spread the understanding that the choice is not between wild places or people, it is between a rich or an impoverished existence for Man.

  Thomas Lovejoy

  Men, Wild Places, People

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• If only I could find a guy who wasn't in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I'd be madly in love.

  Leelee Sobieski

  White, Guy, Madly In Love

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it.

  Suzanne Collins

  President Snow, Names, Bad Times

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.241, Scholastic Inc.

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• I looked up, but had to crane my head back, leaving the features above me wrong-side up. The clear green eyes were the same, and, unfortunately, so was the spiky blond hair. It didn’t look any better from this angle, I decided.

  Karen Chance

  Eye, Hair, Leaving

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.13, Penguin

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• When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge of the roof, then it's got to mean something. You've got to know why you're doing it; it's got to be for a reason within the story, and to further the story.

  Roger Deakins

  Movie, Moving, Mean

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• Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.

  Chanakya

  Son, Swans, Parent

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• In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents.

  Alex Shoumatoff

  Three, Continents

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• I love the joy of mountains Wandering free with no concerns Every day I find food for this old body There's leisure for thinking, nothing to do Often I carry an ancient book Sometimes I climb a rock pavilion To look down a thousand foot precipice Overhead are swirling clouds A cold moon chilly cold My body feels like a flying crane

  Hanshan

  Book, Thinking, Moon

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