Ducks Quotes - Page 15

• Mornings at Blackwater" For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt, the feet of ducks. And always it assuaged me from the dry bowl of the very far past. What I want to say is that the past is the past, and the present is what your life is, and you are capable of choosing what that will be, darling citizen. So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Past, Years

  Mary Oliver (2008). “Red Bird: Poems”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish; but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief — a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Crush, Baby

  "Adam Bede".

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• People... of the universe! Tonight... is the night.. when the skies will open, and spray forth a divine hand with pointed finger! And it will say... everybody... you're not just a duck... YOU ARE HUMAN! YOU ARE HUMAAAAN!!!

  Thurston Moore

  Night, Hands, Sky

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• confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Confused, War, Stunned

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

  Amanda Burton

  Thinking, People, Sitting

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• A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs.

  Robert Benchley

  Fun, Men, Years

  Robert Benchley, Gluyas Williams (1949). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, New York : Harper

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• I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind.

  W. G. Sebald

  Children, Dark, White

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.136, New Directions Publishing

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• If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she’d end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.

  Patricia Briggs

  Knitting, Wonder, Ends

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.30, Penguin

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• This weekend the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, featured several speakers including Sarah Palin and Phil Robertson from 'Duck Dynasty.' It was a good weekend for conservatives - and a great weekend for wild animals.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Animal, Weekend, Political

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• As for me... I'm fine. I have bad dreams, but I never saw Mister Duck again. I play video games. I smoke a little dope. I got my thousand-yard stare. I carry a lot of scares. I like the way that sounds. I carry a lot of scares.

  Alex Garland

  Dream, Dope, Games

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• I'm pretty sure there will be duck hunting in Heaven, and I can't wait.

  Mike Huckabee

  Hunting, Waiting, Heaven

  Mike Huckabee's Remarks at NRA's "Celebration of American Values" Conference in Washington, DC, www.nraila.org. September 21, 2007.

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• The snow has left the cottage top;
  The thatch moss grows in brighter green;
  And eaves in quick succession drop,
  Where grinning icicles have been,
  Pit-patting with a pleasant noise
  In tubs set by the cottage door;
  While duck and geese, with happy joys,
  Plunge in the yard pond brimming over.
  The sun peeps through the window pane:
  Which children mark with laughing eye,
  And in the wet street steal again
  To tell each other spring is night.

  John Clare

  Children, Spring, Eye

  John Clare (1827). “The Shepherd's Calendar: With Village Stories and Other Poems”, p.20

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• The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.

  Mike Pence

  Government, Political, Way

  "GOP fears government health care 'alligator'". www.foxnews.com. June 23, 2009.

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• Making love to your wife is like shooting at sitting ducks.

  Groucho Marx

  Love, Successful, Wife

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.211, Da Capo Press

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• his snores sounded like ducks mating.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mating

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1593, Bantam

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• When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it.

  R. L. Stine

  Funny, Halloween, Kids

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• I started to duck under the spears, only to have the two vamps on the other wall suddenly appear in my face. Or, at least, their crotches did. Another day, I would have made a cute remark about heat and leather jock straps, but I wasn’t feeling real cute right now.

  Karen Chance

  Cute, Wall, Real

  Karen Chance (2012). “Fury's Kiss: A Midnight's Daughter Novel”, p.376, Penguin

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• The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to prompt the coining of a popular saying: 'I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat.

  Mary Roach

  Sex, Home, Years

  Mary Roach (2009). “Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex”, p.192, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Them Jews aren't going to let (Obama) talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office. ...They will not let him talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Daughter, Baby, Eight

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• London is a dead duck, as far as innovative new music is concerned, unless you want to have your head blown off with some outrageous, rubbish, pounding dance music.

  Jeff Beck

  Want, London, Rubbish

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• Darkwing Duck and Don Karnage are the most fun to do, because they're both probably the closest to me - I kinda improvise a lot of them, kinda ad lib.

  Jim Cummings

  Fun, Ads, Closest

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• My kids can't watch ('Howard the Duck'). By the time I get in bed with the duck, they are, like, 'Turn it off, mom. You in bed with a duck is just pretty much a deal breaker.'

  Lea Thompson

  Mom, Kids, Bed

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. March 9, 2009.

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• Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire.

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Home, Battle

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1432, Simon and Schuster

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• As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens, Thackeray, Smollet, Richardson, Emerson, Keats, Boswell and the Brontes, all of them Great, none of them ever read by me, all of them now on a shelf, looking at me and making me feel guilty.

  Garrison Keillor

  Book, Past, Years

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• Have you seen a duck gliding smoothly on water? Does it ever look like it is paddling furiously underneath the surface? I don't have to show that I am working very hard.

  Salman Khan

  Working Very Hard, Water, Gliding

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