Pigeons Quotes

• Look at all these pigeons, think they can just trust us humans? You can't trust us humans!

  The Rev

  Thinking, Looks, Humans

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• Pigeons: They've got wings, but they walk a lot.

  Karl Pilkington

  Wings, Walks

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• You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

  Claude Chabrol

  Facts, Sometimes, Accepting

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• Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Smart, Vision, Hearing

  "Mike Tyson’s Show Is a Bad Bet" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2011.

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• Criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home.

  Dale Carnegie

  Communication, Home, Criticism

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.17, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon.

  Diane Sawyer

  One Day, Statues

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• I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different.

  Lil Wayne

  Ocean, Swimming, Sky

  Song: Sky Is Tha Limit, Album: Da Drought 3

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• I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, People

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• The only thing I'm afraid of is a life without you, Pigeon.

  Jamie McGuire

  Fear, Without You

  Jamie McGuire (2013). “Walking Disaster”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• A homing pigeon must love her home; otherwise she will not wish to return to it.

  Meir Shalev

  Home, Wish, Return

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• I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I had only to wish and call her and she would come flying to me. I loved that pigeon as a man loves a women, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.

  Nikola Tesla

  Beautiful, Men, Light

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• Retain a calm heart, sit like a turtle, walk swiftly like a pigeon, and sleep like a dog

  Li Ching-Yuen

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

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• Don't be a pigeon if you were born to be an eagle. Experience God's altitude for your life.

  Myles Munroe

  Eagles, Born, Ifs

  Myles Munroe (2011). “Maximizing Your Potential Expanded Edition: The Keys to Dying Empty”, p.25, Destiny Image Publishers

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• I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.

  Matthew Shipp

  People, Able

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• If pigs had wings, they would be pigeons.

  W. C. Fields

  Pigs, Wings, Would Be

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• I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

  Tommy Douglas

  Mind, Want, Building

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.

  May Sarton

  Flight, Destination

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• Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Cities, Facts, Wildlife

  "Mike Tyson’s Show Is a Bad Bet" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2011.

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• Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Animal

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• We all get pigeon-holed or put in a box, no matter what that might be.

  Justin Hartley

  Might, Matter, Boxes

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• At evening casual flocks of pigeons make
  Ambiguous undulations as they sink
  Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

  Wallace Stevens

  Wings, Poetry, Darkness

  'Sunday Morning, I' (1923)

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• Writers are as jealous as pigeons.

  Anton Chekhov

  Jealous

  Letter to I.L. Leontev, February 4, 1888.

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• If there were any justice in this world, people would occasionally be permitted to fly over pigeons.

  Gene Brown

  People, Justice, World

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• Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons.

  Jessye Norman

  Holes, Comfortable

  Jessye Norman (2014). “Stand Up Straight and Sing!”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

  Carl Sandburg

  Math, Numbers, Arithmetic

  Carl Sandburg, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1995). “Carl Sandburg”, p.17, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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