Crow Quotes - Page 6

• Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy.

  Neil Gaiman

  Way, Graveyard, Tidy

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.33, A&C Black

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• So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.

  James O'Barr

  Dream, Sound, Scream

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• Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.

  Will Cuppy

  Innocent, Chaste, Department

  Will Cuppy, P. G. Wodehouse (2005). “How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes”, p.52, David R. Godine Publisher

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• I will make thee think thy swan a crow.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Swans, Thee

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.800

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• Holy crow!" ~Bella Swan

  Stephenie Meyer

  Swans, Holy

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• Hush little owl, You're with Twi. I got the moves to get you by. Big bad crows. St. Aggie's scamps Ain't got nothin to show the champ. I'll pop a spiral With a twist, Do a three-sixty And scatter mist----

  Kathryn Lasky

  Moving, Owl, Twists

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• My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar.

  Rumi

  Heart, Soul, Sugar

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• When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?

  Kiran Desai

  Father, Rooftops, Helping

  FaceBook post by Kiran Desai from Jun 16, 2014

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• [M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique.

  Moderata Fonte

  White, Knowing, Envy

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• It was stealing her breath, imbecile. Go get a towel." -Christophe, Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Angel, Towels, Imbeciles

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• Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.

  Haruki Murakami

  War, Self, Blood

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 17, 2014

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• Who would guess," he teased, "that I'd ever see you on a rooftop with straw in your hair?" Kit giggled. "Are you saying I've turned into a crow?" "Not exactly." His eyes were intensely blue with merriment. "I can still see the green feathers if I look hard enough. But they've done their best to make you into a sparrow, haven't they?

  Elizabeth George Speare

  Eye, Hair, Blue

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• If golfers can run around and crow when they make a birdie, I think it would be just as proper to lie down on the green and cry when you make a bogey.

  J. C. Snead

  Running, Lying, Golf

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• The light comes brighter from the east; the cawOf restive crows is sharper on the ear.

  Theodore Roethke

  Light, East, Ears

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• It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow.

  Jean Chretien

  Mother, Boys, Cities

  "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chrétien, 1985.

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• I think the important thing to understand first and foremost about Michael Jackson is that he was the international emblem of the African American blues spiritual impulse that goes back through slavery - Jim Crow, Jane Crow, up to the present moment, through a Louis Armstrong, through a Ma Rainey, through a Bessie Smith, all the way to John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin and Nina Simone.

  Cornel West

  Spiritual, Thinking, African American

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Dog, Years, Long

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.64, Lulu.com

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• Sisters, when about their work, should not put on clothing which would make them look like images to frighten the crows from the corn. It is more gratifying to their husbands and children to see them in a becoming, well-fitting, attire, than it can be to merely visitors or strangers.

  Ellen G. White

  Children, Husband, Looks

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• It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Air, Swings, Sea

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• A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

  Juvenal

  Men, White, Luck

  Juvenal, Persius (1848). “The Satires of Juvenal and Persius Literally Translated from the Most Approved Texts by W. Wallace”, p.44

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• The wild swan hurries hight and noises loud
  With white neck peering to the evening clowd.
  The weary rooks to distant woods are gone.
  With lengths of tail the magpie winnows on
  To neighbouring tree, and leaves the distant crow
  While small birds nestle in the edge below.

  John Clare

  Fall, White, Swans

  John Clare, “Autumn Birds”

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• Die on a hilltop... eyeing the crows... waiting for your lids to close... but you want to watch as they peck your flesh... Ironic that they go for the eyes first.

  Eddie Vedder

  Fear, Eye, Waiting

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• I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Beauty, Strong, Feet

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• Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!

  Amory Lovins

  Nature, Otters, Pelicans

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• The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Night, Government, Scare

  Letter to Charles Hammond, August 18, 1821.

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