Storks Quotes

• His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.

  Mae West

  Life, Mom, Mother

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West".

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• The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.

  Will Cuppy

  Voiceless

  Will Cuppy, P. G. Wodehouse (2005). “How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes”, p.54, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork.

  Wilson Mizner

  Real, Giving, Bird

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• Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Compassion, Sparrows, Feels

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• Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.

  James Fenton

  Baby, Poetry, Workshops

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• About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.

  Kin Hubbard

  People, Favors, Birth

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• There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window.

  Evan Esar

  Doors, People, Trying

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• If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.

  Judith Hayes

  Atheist, Alternatives, Creation Science

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• I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork.

  Irving Brecher

  Sarcastic, Father, Rocks

  (Marx Brothers) At the Circus (1939 film)

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• But to measure cause and effect... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for a cause. In the 1990s the stork population of Germany increased and the German at-home birth rate rose as well. Shall we credit storks for airlifting the babies?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Baby, Home, Simple

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• I will tell the stork-man.

  Tamora Pierce

  Men

  Tamora Pierce (2015). “Wild Magic”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a bird capable, say, of catching insects in mid-air, with the result that birds of similar habitats tend to have very similar anatomies, whatever their ancestry. For example, American vultures look and behave much like Old World vultures, but biologists have come to realize that the former are related to storks, the latter to hawks, and that their resemblances result from their common lifestyle.

  Jared Diamond

  Air, Bird, Design

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• With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the negative energy of color overload. It would have served well as the nervous-making set for a nightmare about a children's-show host who led a secret life as an ax murderer. The chain-smoking clown didn't improve the ambience.

  Dean Koontz

  Children, Wall, Father

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.8, Bantam

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• I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Moving, Eyebrows, Bird

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