Cheeping Quotes

#1. The two horses had just lain down when a brood of ducklings, which had lost their mother, filed into the barn, cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side to find some place where they would not be trodden on.

George Orwell

#2. Old age is
a flight of small
cheeping birds
skimming
bare trees
above a snow glaze.

William Carlos Williams

#3. Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.

Saul David

#4. Ky smiles then, a smile I've never seen before. It's the kind of daring, reckless smile that could make people follow him straight into a firing, a flood.

Ally Condie

#5. Ella let out a squeal when I picked her up, "Jonathan!"
I loved carrying her around in my arms. After all, modern man is just an illusion, we're all still cavemen. We just wear better clothes now.

R. Matthews

#6. Seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

Lupita Nyong'o

#7. Don't be a hog: the only time a hog helps the community is when he dies.

Evan Esar

#8. The philosopher says
I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:
No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were and are and ever will be only a part of the supreme I AM, of which the church is the emblem.

Henry Adams

#9. I've had people come up to me in the past and say they enjoyed whatever show I've been in.

Hugh Bonneville

#10. It's all about being in control of myself as an older woman who lives alone, and it's all about how I am going to do what I have to do to be as strong as I can be and be confident that I can do what I need to do as an older person. [p. 62]

Mary Catherine Bateson

#11. Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#12. Everything started as nothing.

Auliq Ice

#13. Why be uptight about bowel movements and sex? We all have sex. We all have penises
except for those of us who have vaginas.

Howard Stern

#14. Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to.

Paul Hawken

#15. You can change someone by your actions, not by your words

Sid