Lapwing Quotes

#1. Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.

Oliver Goldsmith

#2. But more often than not the missing face has been sucked into the engines of the Nazi death machine, like an unlucky lapwing hitting the propeller of a Lancaster bomber-nothing left but feathers blowing away in the aircraft's wake, as if those warm wings and beating heart had never existed.

Elizabeth Wein

#3. I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.

Bob Hope

#4. We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.

Yehuda Berg

#5. And yet he held his tongue, wanting his farewell with Marina to be peaceable, not out of any magnanimity, but so that after Tor ruined her - he felt confident Tor would ruin her - and she was once more alone, she would think of Lucy's graciousness and feel the long-lingering sting of bitter regret.

Patrick DeWitt

#6. I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first.

Primo Levi

#7. The life of a free person is an offense to those attached to appearances and rules.

Paulo Coelho

#8. Lisey didn't care if Darla ate, busted a joint, or took a shit in the begonias. She just wanted to get off the phone.

Stephen King