Geese Quotes - Page 5

• While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Use, All Things

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.90

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• The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger.

  Adolf Hitler

  Character, Atheism, Foxes

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf”, p.528, Adolf Hitler

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• It’s like trying to herd a flock of geese,” said Orik. “They’re always trying to go off on their own, they make an obnoxious noise, and they’ll bite your hand first chance they get.

  Christopher Paolini

  Hands, Always Trying, Noise

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition with Video (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, p.251, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• America is so special, everybody wants to go there. And there's not a thought given to how it got special. It's just assumed it was made that way, I guess. It's just assumed that it's just there. And it's also assumed that it's always going to be there. Call it the golden goose or whatever you want but everybody saying that we have no right to keep anybody out because nobody kept us out, we all had to get here. Nobody here now actually started here. Of course, that's no longer true.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Special, Want

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.

  Aaron Ashmore

  Bumps, Littles, Scripts

  "Smallville's Pal, Jimmy Olsen". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. September 11, 2008.

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• Who can keep us from recreating our life as we would like it to be-as it could, and should be? No one but ourselves can keep us from being artists, rather than marching forward like mere consumers, corporate robots, sheep. No one but ourselves can keep us from dancing with life instead of goose-stepping. In every moment recognizing our own creative imagination, the living picture we paint on the canvas of our lives. Everything is imagination. And imagination is freedom, but it can also be conditioning, bondage.

  Surya Das

  Artist, Sheep, Dancing

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• When you think of things that influenced your life, Mother Goose influenced more people than almost any other thing, the rhythms of those poems. Everything after that was a bare imitation of some of those mysterious and materialistic poems.

  Grace Paley

  Mother, Thinking, People

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• When the Foxe preacheth, beware geese.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.332

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• Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.

  George R. R. Martin

  Brave, Weasels

  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.1589, Bantam

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• Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'.

  Shannon Hale

  Girl, Warrior, Helping

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.257, A&C Black

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• How ironic, she thought, as she fell to her certain death, that at that moment she would have given anything to be a giant goose again.

  Michael Buckley

  Ironic, Giants, Moments

  Michael Buckley (2011). “The Sisters Grimm: Book Seven: The Everafter War”, p.241, Abrams

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• ...first thing is that I love you. And the second thing is that as much as I honor your former profession, I don’t think your geese care much for your betrothed and I hope they hadn’t any plans on sharing our bed.

  Shannon Hale

  Love You, Thinking, Honor

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Goose Girl”, p.379, A&C Black

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• It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose.

  Tom Waits

  Art, Player, Bird

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• True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).

  Stephen Covey

  Eggs, Two, Effectiveness

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.64, Mango Media Inc.

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• I get goose-bumps when you talk about Diane Wilson. Who knows where she found that courage? When she was a child, she would crawl under the bed when a stranger came to the house. But in 1989, she found out that her county in south Texas was ranked worst in the country for toxic waste. She wondered if the effluent, dumped into the waters where she and her family had shrimped for generations, might be responsible for the dwindling fish populations. And she suspected that her son's autism might be related to the pollution.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Country, Children, Son

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Once the forest has been removed and the swamp starts being drained, that organic matter begins to oxidise and give off continuing emissions. It's sort of like the goose that keeps on giving.

  Frances Ford Seymour

  Giving, Swamps, Matter

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• Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's draught, makes a hot enough fire to cook somebody's goose in quite a hurry.

  Ardyth Kennelly

  Fire, Envy, Ambitious

  Ardyth Kennelly (1956). “Marry Me, Carry Me”

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• To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.

  George Herbert

  Wine, Fishing, Pot

  George Herbert (1959). “The works of George Herbert”

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• You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.

  Harold MacMillan

  House, Politics, Cry

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• If a team is in a positive frame of mind, it will have a good attitude. If it has a good attitude, it will make a commitment to playing the game right. If it plays the game right, it will win-unless, of course, it doesn't have enough talent to win, and no manager can make goose-liver pate out of goose feathers, so why worry?

  Sparky Anderson

  Attitude, Team, Commitment

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• Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after.
  [Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]

  George Herbert

  Kings, Years, Void

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• The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Morning, Food, Destiny

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.110, Zillmann Publishing

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• The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many thing by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Perfection, Crow

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 102

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• The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Gambling, Games, Twelve

  Oliver Goldsmith “the traveller and the deserted village”, CUP Archive

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• Liupan the Mountain of Six Circles Dazzling sky to the far cirrus clouds. I gaze at wild geese vanishing into the south. If we cannot reach the Long Wall we are not true men. On my fingers I count the twenty thousand li we have already marched. On the summit of Liupan the west wind lazily ripples our red banner. Today we have the long rope in our hands. When will we tie up the gray dragon of the seven stars?

  Mao Zedong

  Stars, Wall, Men

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.69, Univ of California Press

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