Vulture Quotes

• Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

  Plutarch

  Bird, Righteous, Smallest

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• Fear the vulture and the vulture will come. Fear nothing and you are the vulture.

  Suzy Kassem

  Fear Nothing, Fear Not

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

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• Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.

  Kevin Nealon

  Play, Want

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• I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

  Debbie Harry

  Culture, Want

  Details, Volume 25, Issues 8-10, 2007.

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• Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Sky, Bird, Garbage

  "In The Studio With Roger Tory Peterson; Reluctant Earthling" by Lisa W. Foderaro, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 1993.

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• Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

  Edward Abbey

  Turkeys, Envy, Littles

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• I see a city in the desert lies
  The vanity of an ancient king
  But the city lies in broken pieces
  While the wind howls and the vultures sing

  Sting

  Kings, Lying, Vanity

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• Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilization than other creatures and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena.

  H. Jay Dinshah

  Equality, Men, Hyenas

  "Compassion, the Ultimate Ethic: An Exploration of Veganism" by Victoria Moran, (p. 32), 1985.

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• Do you blame a vulture for perching over a carcass?

  Chinua Achebe

  Blame

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.9, Heinemann

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• ‎"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Wings, Roots

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn't end there.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Ends, Resemblance

  Groucho Marx (2007). “The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

  Amy Lowell

  Hate, Skulls, Beaks

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• Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

  David Lloyd George

  Principles, Conviction

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• Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

  Ralph Ellison

  Men, Eagles, Purple

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.152, Vintage

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• At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Eagles, America

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• Here is a list of terrible things, The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings The rabid bite of the dogs of war, The voice of one who went before, But most of all the mirror's gaze, Which counts us out our numbered days.

  Clive Barker

  Dog, Fear, War

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• God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates.

  Herman Melville

  Heart, Men, Thinking

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.224, Velvet Element Books

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• In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Country, Night, Light

  "A Writer's Notebook" by W. Somerset Maugham, Country Life Press, (p. 48), 1949.

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• It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Selfish, Men, Apes

  "The Strange Fiction of Devon Pitlor: Volume III". Book by Devon Pitlor, p. 241, May 27, 2014.

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• The Spirit continued to stir and declare, "You cannot be afraid to face the wolf at the door. Don't let the fear paralyze you. When you get in fear and get paralyzed, sometimes somebody has to come and get you. Whatever is swarming around you that thinks you are dead. you tell it that you are not dead! Tell the vultures you are not dead and that they have to move on! Say, 'Vultures, I am not the meal you thought I was going to be!

  Chuck Pierce

  Moving, Thinking, Doors

  "EXTRA BULLETIN: Chuck Pierce: Stare Eye to Eye Until Your Enemy Retreats". www.elijahlist.com. November 13 , 2010.

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• Teach the student what needs to be taught.
  'Cause black and white kids both take shorts
  When one doesn't know about the other one's culture,
  Ignorance swoops down like a vulture.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Kids, Ignorance

  Song: You Must Learn

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• Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

  John Gay

  Men, Animal, Together

  John Gay (1791). “The Beggar's Opera: A Comic Opera”, p.73

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• Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.

  Libba Bray

  Ethics, Fewer

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• Elvis is bound to be dead. Look at all the vultures in his vicinity.

  Sharyn McCrumb

  Looks, Vicinity, Bounds

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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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