Crow Quotes - Page 12

• The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

  Robert Frost

  Change, Heart, Dust

  Betsy Melvin, Tom Melvin, Robert Frost (2000). “Robert Frost's New England”, p.25, UPNE

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• The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn into girls and back again doesn't help much. The useful magic's never at hand. The three wishes and the genies in bottles, seven-league boots, invisible cloaks and all. They stay in the stories, while out here in the wide world we have to muddle through as best we can on our own.

  Charles de Lint

  Girl, Hands, League

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• That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from the South. They didn't look back, and they often didn't tell their children about it. They didn't want to talk about it. It was too painful, what they'd gone through and the caste system of the South, which was Jim Crow.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Children, Loss, Thinking

  "Journalist Isabel Wilkerson". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. December 23, 2010.

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• If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

  Jon Meacham

  Religious, Gay, Rights

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• I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about as high as my head, either by a crow or a squirrel. It was a mile at least from any corn-field.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cutting, Squirrels, Woods

  Henry David Thoreau, Carl Bode (1967). “The best of Thoreau's journals”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr

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• My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.

  Mem Fox

  Mother, Blow, Doors

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• Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

  Larry Elder

  Mother, Father, Age

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• No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you weep for pain. The kite is pursued by the crows so long as it carries the fish in its beak, it twists and turns in the sky trying to last and it drops the fish. That moment it is free. So give up the attachment to the senses; then grief and worry can harass you no more.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Giving Up, Pain, Grief

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Sep 07, 2016

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• The black crow thinketh her own birds white.

  Gavin Douglas

  White, Bird, Black

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• Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Real, Past, Secret

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.179, Faber & Faber

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• It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Swans, Honor, Century

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Apr 12, 2017

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• I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.

  Amy Neftzger

  Wrinkles, Years, Feet

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• I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.

  Kate Voegele

  Real, Trying, Fans

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• Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?

  John Milton

  War, Fighting, Air

  John Milton (1870). “Britain Under Trojan, Roman, Saxon Rule”, p.120

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• The American crow is at an all-time low of 82 birds. Others hit by the West Nile, like the black-capped chickadee, have rebounded.

  Jeff Chapman

  Bird, Black, All Time Low

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• That conclusion is inescapable, given the well-established evidence that voter-ID laws don't disenfranchise minorities or reduce minority voting, and in many instances enhance it, despite claims to the contrary by Mr. Holder and his allies. As more states adopt such laws, the left has railed against them with increasing fury, even invoking the specter of the Jim Crow era to describe electoral safeguards common to most nations, including in the Third World.

  Edwin Meese

  Law, Voting, Minorities

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• Since the nation's founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die, but then are reborn in new form, tailored to the needs and constraints of the time.

  Michelle Alexander

  African American, Needs, Slavery

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.21, The New Press

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• Union in privacy (with one's wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.

  Chanakya

  Wife, Unions, Privacy

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• Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.

  Clive James

  Eye, Two, Miracle

  Clive James (2017). “Clive James On Television”, p.486, Pan Macmillan

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• Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.

  Nicolas Bentley

  Women, Eye, Feet

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• Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.

  John J. Geddes

  Dark, Reflection, Orange

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• A crow may put on human shape or crow shape, but we remain crows,” he replied firmly. “Hawks, too, are the same, whether they are born in human nests or hawk ones. The nestlings must always be protected. Since you have chosen to protect these, I and mine will protect you.

  Tamora Pierce

  Shapes, May, Nests

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Trickster's Duet”, p.275, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Government, Jim Crow Laws

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• The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread.

  Paul Robeson

  School, Men, Rocks

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• Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

  Tony Blair

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, People

  "9/11: The Shocking Truth Laid Bare". Article by Lasha Darkmoon, www.veteranstoday.com. September 6, 2014.

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