Carrion Birds Quotes

#1. The carrion birds have tried to peck out my eyes and my tongue and my mind, but they've never been able to get at my heart.

Tennessee Williams

#2. The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.

Cormac McCarthy

#3. They are the carrion birds of humanity ... [speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens ... The evils of Jews do not stem from individuals but from the fundamental nature of these people.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#4. A substance so far beyond their ken that they might have been carrion birds pecking at the eyes of god.

Laini Taylor

#5. I don't say goodbye very easily, Anna. Not gracefully or prettily.Goodbye tears your heart out and leaves it a feast for carrion birds who happen by.

Patricia Briggs

#6. If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.

Abdu'l- Baha

#7. Where there are wars, there will be crows, the carrion-fanciers. And ravens too, the warbirds, the eyeball gourmands. And vultures, the holy birds of yore, old connoisseurs of rot.

Margaret Atwood

#8. And one more thing ... You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab.

Khaled Hosseini

#9. The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations.

Edward Snowden

#10. For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

Alexander Pope

#11. Mary? She's mine.
Yeah, but we had that thing...
SHE'S MINE!

Louis Tomlinson

#12. We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

Galileo Galilei

#13. I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself in all its capacities.

Gregory Allen Howard

#14. We desire an exciting future, but the demand for familiar and comfortable tempers our steps to the point that often our steps are little more than stepping in place.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#15. But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.

Patricia Hewitt

#16. Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#17. If you take care of the little things, the big things take care of themselves.

Renford Reese

#18. The marvels of God are not brought forth from one's self. Rather, it is more like a chord, a sound that is played. The tone does not come out of the chord itself, but rather, through the touch of the musician. I am, of course, the lyre and harp of God's kindness.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#19. blood runs thicker than water.

Bella Forrest