Cawing Quotes

#1. You shall tie the marriage knot with the ropemaker's daughter and the cawing of the crows will be your wedding song.

Jacob Grimm

#2. Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

Horace

#3. As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.

George Eliot

#4. And then he was silent; and from far above they heard the sounds of crows flying, cawing angrily. "Crows. Family Corvidae. Collective noun," intoned Mr. Croup, relishing the sound of the word. "a murder.

Neil Gaiman

#5. But I would tell Mother none of this. Nor would I tell her that at the hour of his death, I was floating free in the ocean, in a solitude I would remember all of my life, the gulls cawing over my head and the white flag flying at the top of the pole.

Sue Monk Kidd

#6. The things I do for love, it said. Bran screamed. The crow took to the air, cawing. Not that, it shrieked at him. Forget that, you do not need it now, put it aside, put it away. It landed on Bran's shoulder, and pecked at him, and the shining golden face was gone. Bran

George R R Martin

#7. Rooks were cawing somewhere, and bells were ringing, and from the oxpens the steady beat of a gas engine announced the ascent of the evening Royal Mail zeppelin for London.

Philip Pullman

#8. The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

V.S. Pritchett

#9. The past isn't going to get you to your goal.

Junior Seau

#10. She acts like she don't like you"
"She doesn't like anyone"
"She likes Capitan Black", Orr reminded.
"That's because he treats her like dirt. Anyone can get a girl that way

Joseph Heller

#11. And after all in this house what have we to fear? There is always someone with us who is stronger. The devil may visit us, but God lives here.

Victor Hugo

#12. Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Mark Twain

#14. There is no Internet business in furniture or bedding. Zero - practically in the world.

Gerry Harvey

#15. Sometimes what seems like the darkest step we've ever been on comes just before the brightest light we've ever experienced.

Stormie O'martian

#16. It pleased him to see the hurt look on her face, the tears springing into her eyes. She might be a daughter of the Great Don but she was his wife, she was his property now and he could treat her as he pleased. It made him feel powerful that one of the Corleones was his doormat.

Mario Puzo

#17. Somebody tells you they drink because they're a failure, it ain't so. They're a failure because they drink. And they drink because it's so damn hard not to. But as long as they have a bottle that isn't empty, they never feel far from being happy.
("Bums")

William Kent Krueger

#18. Life is smoke, plain and simple; we just fool ourselves that it's otherwise. All it takes is one good gust and we float away and disappear, leaving behind only the scent of our passing in the form of memories.

Cody McFadyen

#19. I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.

Billy Joel

#20. Now don't warp your orbit, Mac.

Alfred Bester