Top 100 A Crow Quotes
#1. A crow may put on human shape or crow shape, but we remain crows," he replied firmly. "Hawks, too, are the same, whether they are born in human nests or hawk ones. The nestlings must always be protected. Since you have chosen to protect these, I and mine will protect you.
Tamora Pierce
#2. Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!
Amory Lovins
#3. Depressed is a word that often describes somebody who is feeling sad and gloomy, but in this case it describes a secret button, hidden in a crow statue, that is feeling just fine, thank you.
Lemony Snicket
#4. I've been worried about you, she says when they're settled in the kitchen. She has the bright, inquisitive gaze of a crow with its eye on a freshly squashed chipmunk.
Stephen King
#5. My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.
Mem Fox
#6. When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#7. I was born with a different kind of morality. The morality of an animal - of a crow or a fox or an owl - and not of a normal human being. I
Peter Swanson
#8. For some she came in a dream. For others in words as clear as a bell: it is time, I am here. She may come in a whisper so loud she can deafen you or a shout so quiet you strain to hear. She may appear in the waves or the face of the moon, in a red goddess or a crow.
Lucy H. Pearce
#9. When I watch roasts, I actually feel physically uncomfortable, like when I see a crow feast on a squirrel that has been hit by a car buy has not stopped moving yet.
Mindy Kaling
#10. On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening
Matsuo Basho
#11. They say you came back different. Came back wrong." A crow's laugh. "I never bother to tell them I think you came back right. Came back right at last." A
Sarah J. Maas
#12. It wasn't a crow from dangling head down from the the car roof and looking in at the window. It was the little gargoyle from Belgravia. When he saw my horrified expression, his catlike face twisted into a triumphant smile, and he spewed a torrent of water over the windshield. - Sapphire Blue
Kerstin Gier
#13. My dear soul, flee from the worthless,
stay close only to those with a pure heart.
Like attracts like.
A crow will lead you to the graveyard,
a parrot to a lump of sugar.
Rumi
#14. My father was a vulture. My mother was a magpie. My oldest brother is a crow. My sister, a sparrow. I have never really been a bird."
Lila resisted the urge to say he might have been a peacock. It didn't seem the time.
V.E Schwab
#15. Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#16. A person becomes great not by sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. A crow does not become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building.
Chanakya
#17. Once there was a crow, it flew from the field to the hill, from hedge to hedge, and lived its life. then it died and rotted away. -what's the sense in it? there just ISN'T any!
Maxim Gorky
#18. Sometimes a crow lands on the roof of the house. It sits there for hours and watches the girl. The woman doesn't chase the bird away.
Cornelia Funke
#19. Raven." There was a long pause as Ronan regarded his hand. "Maybe a crow. But I doubt it. I ... yeah, seriously doubt it. Corvus corax."
Even drunk, Ronan knew the Latin name for the common raven.
Maggie Stiefvater
#20. Peregrine Falcon This is a large falcon about the size of a crow.
Mark Farley
#21. Only brooms
Know the devil
Still exists,
That the snow grows whiter
After a crow has flown over it
Charles Simic
#22. The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#23. I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.
Ellie Goulding
#24. True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form,
The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all
Which men need render; all which God can bear.
What to the faith are forms? A passing speck,
A crow upon the sky.
Philip James Bailey
#26. Black is beautiful .Black isn't power. Knowledge is power. You can be black as a crow or white as snow but if you don't know and you ain't got no dough, you can't go and that's for sho'.
Lewis H. Michaux
#27. How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?
George R R Martin
#28. Yu come face to face with love, and before the sun sets you've become someone you didn't used to be...
It's the reason a wolf would chase a crow, even knowing he can't fly and she don't ever need to touch the ground.
Jonathan Hickman
#29. Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?
Rumi
#30. Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life is hard For the man who quietly undertakes The way of perfection, With purity, detachment and vigor. He sees light.
Gautama Buddha
#31. You know the expression 'As a crow flies,' don't you? People use it to mean a straight line. And that's very important. Because the way a capital-c Crow flies is a straight line. It may appear jagged to some, but the Crow flies in a straight line to its goal.
Barry Lyga
#32. Night is the sleep of seven wax moths
Dawn is the singing of five mermaids
Noon is the scratching of three field mice
Dusk is the shadow of a crow
Xi Chuan
#33. Nothing is unreal as long as you can imagine like a crow
Munia Khan
#34. That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.
William Shakespeare
#35. One of the most difficult of all things to endure for a crow, a raven, a wolf, or a human is to feel alone and separated from one's own kind. A sense of belonging is one of the most universal of all feelings.
Lawrence Kilham
#36. I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.
Tom Waits
#37. We walk on air, Watson.
There is only the moon, embalmed in phosphorus.
There is only a crow in a tree. Make notes.
Sylvia Plath
#38. I was bent on love the way a crow is bent on a flattened squirrel.
Rick Moody
#39. It was a miracle to live as birds do, except for one thing: anyone seen in flight would surely be captured, perhaps even shot down like a crow flying above a cornfield. It's always dangerous to be different, to appear as a monster in most people's eyes, even from a distance.
Alice Hoffman
#40. A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.
Chanakya
#41. He sighed and rolled his eyes. "Unbelievable. I leave you alone for two hours and you fall off a cliff, get attacked by a crow and a snake explodes all over you." "Pretty
Karina Halle
#42. I would rather listen to my dog bark at a crow than hear a man swear that he loves me
William Shakespeare
#43. Concise mode of expressing the same meaning is, that inseparable accidents are properties which are universal to the species, but not necessary to it. Thus, blackness is an attribute of a crow,
John Stuart Mill
#44. A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#45. People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.
James O'Barr
#46. A crow starves sitting," she said eventually. "But finds flying," Erlendur completed the proverb.
Arnaldur Indridason
#47. It was hard to describe what she had sensed, but it had been distinct and clear, like the shape of a leafless tree against the sky, or a crow flying across a ploughed field. She hesitated to close her eyes again, for it had risen up close to her face like something appalling.
Jessica Rydill
#49. Don't worry, Njrea," said Vrem, but everyone went just a little bit still when Trals's raptor got close. Andrea stared down at the wide, yellow eyes, the twitching taloned fingers. The little beast opened its mouth and chuckled at her, like a crow with a dirty joke on its mind.
Daniel M. Bensen
#50. It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.
Kate Horsley
#51. A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek.
Ernest Hemingway,
#52. Without faith, you are as a crow who has forgotten his ability to fly; you peck at the dark, muddy earth when the bright mountains lie before you.
Seth Adam Smith
#53. The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
Robert Frost
#54. You can be a flower in somebody's garden or a pig or the sunshine or a crow or a nightingale! Be something nice in someone else's garden.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#55. I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about as high as my head, either by a crow or a squirrel. It was a mile at least from any corn-field.
Henry David Thoreau
#56. Union in privacy (with one's wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.
Chanakya
#57. Hearing a crow with no mouth
Cry in the deep
Darkness of the night,
I feel a longing for
My father before he was born.
Ikkyu
#58. To become a sparrow you don't have to be a crow.
Munia Khan
#59. A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high.
George Catlin
#60. If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.
L. Frank Baum
#61. One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could be the sun reflecting off of broken glass in an alley. It could be the shine on a crow. It could be snow on a lamp post.
Mark Nepo
#62. Intellectual is a parrot; wise man is a crow. One is repetitive; other is creative!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#63. I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.
William Shakespeare
#64. To hatch a crow, a black rainbow
Bent in emptiness
over emptiness
But flying
Ted Hughes
#65. She brought me a crow's feather...," he whispered.
Erin Hunter
#66. Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth
Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,
Dying hectic of leaves and the chilly blue of the asters,
Hearing, perchance, the croak of a crow on the desolate tree-top.
Bayard Taylor
#67. I'm not a serpent, Father. I'm a crow.
Eli Easton
#68. Where the vast cloudless sky was broken by one crow I sat upon a hill - all alone - long ago; But I never felt so lonely and so out of God's way, As here, where I brush elbows with a thousand every day.
Harry Kemp
#69. He was so close it was hard to breathe. It was exactly like being next to an oven baking a really spicy apple pie.
Lili St. Crow
#70. One of the things that I wound up loving about being involved with a bike racer was learning how to bike and how that really creates solitary time for you to reflect on things and nobody can get a hold of you.
Sheryl Crow
#71. I've talked to Bruce about it. He'll have kittens, and Hiro will have penguins, and August will completely throw a fit, but I've made up my mind. It's up to you
Lili St. Crow
#72. The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.
Sheryl Crow
#73. My addiction to you is definitely a catastrophic weakness
Julie Hockley
#74. In the pioneer West Whitopias, immigration tended to be the dominant social and racial issue. In Forsyth County, Georgia, immigration is still an issue, but because you have that complicated history of the Trail of Tears and slavery and Jim Crow, the Whitopia has a different flavor.
Richard Benjamin
#75. It's a store full of books, which are objects that can be thrown as well as read," Monty replied blandly. The Crow cocked his head. "I had no idea you humans lived with so much danger." Monty
Anne Bishop
#76. It was like my hormones had decided to stage a revolt whenever he got within a ten-foot radius.
Lili St. Crow
#77. You haven't known terror until you've been chased by a man-sized crow.
Austin Grossman
#78. I hit the dance floor, wincing a little bit as the DJ looped feedback through the throbbing of a useless song about someone playing poker with his face or something.
Lili St. Crow
#79. The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.
Franz Kafka
#80. Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.
Tony Blair
#81. Rep. John Lewis, Georgia Democrat and a civil rights leader during the 1960s, was one of those calling on the president for a more robust federal response, such as President Dwight D. Eisenhower did against Jim Crow-defending Southern governors.
Anonymous
#82. The younger generation of performers really enjoy their success. Its like they know their moment is here right now and probably won't be here in a few years.
Sheryl Crow
#83. Mum just laughed gleefully at his mounting frustration, like the villainous matriarch in a Roald Dahl story. I suspect a TV guide would describe her idea of comedy as 'dark', or, at very best, 'alternative'.
Matthew Crow
#84. Stealing a car was easy. The hard part was putting up with the whining.
Lili St. Crow
#85. I've been bitten, beat up, tied to a bed, James Bonded out, and now you finish off by choking a goddamn teacher!
Lili St. Crow
#87. It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.
Sheryl Crow
#88. That is a rare gift, Alexyin, for another person to see every ugliness in you and still be able to find that part of you that they can love, that can love them back.
Kirby Crow
#89. I ain't never seen a creature like that before, she says. He's so smart, he's-
More, like a person than a bird? I says.
Yeah, she says. That's it.
Whatever you do, I says, don't tell him that. I'll never hear the end of it.
Moira Young
#90. Jeez. Just over a week was all it took for my life to implode. It was some kind of record.
Lili St. Crow
#91. It is a very beautiful story, 'The Crow.' It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes.
Luke Evans
#92. I have a healthy cynicism, but not anger.
Sheryl Crow
#93. So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.
James O'Barr
#94. I don't think the pain of a broken heart is one I will survive," I said, lying across the upstairs landing so that everybody would notice my plight.
Matthew Crow
#95. A box of chocolates is the wrapped equivalent of a shrug. You may as well not bother.
Matthew Crow
#96. King not only encouraged church members to become registered voters and NAACP leaders but also to see the Southern Jim Crow system as part of a passing global order of colonialism and imperialism.
Troy Jackson
#97. If golfers can run around and crow when they make a birdie, I think it would be just as proper to lie down on the green and cry when you make a bogey.
J. C. Snead
#98. We are a testament to the importance of early detection and new treatments. I encourage all women everywhere to advocate for themselves and for their future. See your doctor and be proactive about your health.
Sheryl Crow
#99. I dress up with a conscience when I think you'll be watching. I say all the right things, I don't know what I mean.
Sheryl Crow
#100. Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did, now that's a fact.
E.W. Jackson
