Top 100 Parrot Quotes
#2. If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#3. Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.
William Cowper
#4. I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read.
Raymond Chandler
#5. It is almost better to tell your own lies than somebody else's truth; in the first case you are a man, in the second you are no better than a parrot!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#6. And that Perry could not abide: anyone's ridiculing the parrot,
Truman Capote
#7. I think the Dutch certainly get British comedy. And let's face it; a lot of it is pretty low-hanging fruit for the whole world now. There are probably tribes in the heart of the Papua New Guinean rainforest that know all the words to the Dead Parrot sketch.
Rhianna Pratchett
#8. Stop lusting after my brother, wife." Elliott said without looking up from where a laptop sat on a large desk. "Else I'll have to get the parrot out.
Katie MacAlister
#9. In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it ... a wild book.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
#10. Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
#11. As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot.
Erik Spiekermann
#12. And it's no use putting her on her honour, because - '
'Because she hasn't any,' Philip finished.
'I wouldn't say that,' said the parrot, 'of anybody. I'd only say we haven't come across it.
E. Nesbit
#13. I had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence.
Peter Ustinov
#14. Life was the cat that dragged the parrot downstairs by its tail; his head banged against every step.
Julian Barnes
#15. The parrot eyed me cautiously, like he was forming a vague memory of unhappier times, before Jimmy Buffett and ganja.
"Noisy bastard," he decided.
Rick Riordan
#16. I talk of love, a scholar's parrot may talk greek, but, self-imprisoned, always end where I begin.
Phil Keaggy
#18. It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end.
Frederick Lenz
#20. Remember back in forty-four when someone killed that pet parrot of yours? What was his name, Reynold? You know, the only friend you ever had? That was me, George. I fucked it to death then fed it to Goshy.
Will Elliott
#21. I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.
Stella Gibbons
#22. The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to appeal to it on all occasions savors more of the policy of a parrot than of a statesman or a philosopher.
John Ramsay McCulloch
#23. You can't just rattle it off like a demented parrot.
Angie Sage
#24. I had a date with a girl I called 'the parrot.' All she did was repeat everything I said. She never had an original thought of her own. Everything I liked, she liked. Everything I hated, she hated. It was annoying!
Justin Chon
#25. The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not - which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.
Carl Jung
#26. Laboring types surrounded me with bad teeth, parrot voices, and unfounded optimism.
David Mitchell
#27. I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.
Ray Stevenson
#28. Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms ... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like a little song. A song sung by a forest ... within a forest ... a thousand years ago.
Milan Kundera
#29. No, she thought, you are not going to catch me so cheaply; I do not understand words and will not accept them in trade for my feelings; this man is a parrot.
Shirley Jackson
#30. 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
#31. I wanted to get a tape recorder, but I got a parrot instead. I think I did that joke backwards.
Mitch Hedberg
#32. There I go, Clara the parrot. I belong on a pirate's shoulder.
Cynthia Hand
#33. The garrulous parrot
Please stay with your mouth shut.
The thrush in the willow grove
Has promised to sing a song for me
Tsangyang Gyatso
#34. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
Joseph Conrad
#35. you. If you parrot negative things and squawk about the things you don't love, you are literally jailing yourself, like a parrot in a cage.
Rhonda Byrne
#36. Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#37. Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers
#38. Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.
Robert Kiyosaki
#39. When you see your life through the eyes of a dinosaur, albeit parrot, that's when you truly see the magic of God here and now. Stop questioning the past and live in the moment to strive for a better, more promising future. We're all born to make a difference.
Jes Fuhrmann
#40. The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.
Ambrose Bierce
#41. I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of "Apartheid!" I've said many times that the word "Apartheid" means good neighbourliness.
P. W. Botha
#42. You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."
Thomas Carlyle
#43. Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this parrot what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
Anonymous
#44. My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.
W.P. Kinsella
#45. Harder still was the pretense her studies demanded: the need to dissemble, to parrot her professors' orthodoxies, to feign interest in theories that were of no use to her.
John Wray
#46. She reminded Juliet of the parrot the shopkeeper owned. Both the woman and bird belonged in cages, preferably the same cage, so the bird could poop on all that velvet and lace.
Jordan Elizabeth Mierek
#47. Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers
#48. Gorton flu" quickly became a euphemism for pissed as a parrot.
Mungo MacCallum
#49. My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.
Hannah Simone
#50. The parrot's so funny. He imitates me and I don't even realize he's doing it. I'm walking around the house talking to myself and whistling and the next day he's said something I've said ... it's scary you know?
Mick Ralphs
#51. I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.
Sandra Cisneros
#53. Shirley and Griffey get along like a rattler and a parrot.
Jerry Coleman
#54. Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading lips from across the room when the other person's back is turned or having other people parrot what they say.
Shoshannah Stern
#55. I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can't line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you?
Joel Edgerton
#56. I have an African gray parrot; her name is Eli. We thought she was a boy. And a blue-streaked lory named Marco. He's 10. And a yellow and green parakeet, Petey. He's very cute, but he's getting old.
Roz Chast
#57. The papers are portraying Rafa as a parrot, just like they did when they showed Graham Taylor as an onion
Bobby Gould
#58. I hesitated at the top of the stairs, feeling nervous and stupid, for this was a situation I had not experienced before, and my training did not seem to be quite equal to it. Also, I suddenly thought of the parrot in a cage and that was distracting.
Barbara Pym
#59. A turtle without a shell is a very strange thing. Even with shells, turtles are very strange things, with their miniature elephant's feet, parrot's beak and ludicrous tail.
-pg 30
Albert Sanchez Pinol
#60. I bought myself a parrot, but it did not say "I'm hungry", and so it died.
Mitch Hedberg
#61. Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep's clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned government guaranteed security at the expense of our liberties.
Ezra Taft Benson
#62. If they'd wanted a nice parrot, they wouldn't have asked for me.
Gilbert Gottfried
#63. The funeral of Andrew Jackson at the Hermitage was flawed when his pet parrot had to be removed because it kept squawking out the profanity Jackson had taught the foul fowl.20
Craig Shirley
#64. Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#65. It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is empty formalism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.
Jerome Bruner
#66. I have two dogs and a parrot, so they require a lot of attention. They deserve it.
Cassie Steele
#67. You parrot negative things and squawk about the things you don't love, you are literally jailing yourself, like a parrot in a cage. Every time you talk about what you don't love, you are adding another bar to the cage and you are locking yourself away from all the good.
Rhonda Byrne
#68. Wisdom: Oh, fantastic. We've got an army made up of fairies and Beatles, and we're fighting H. G. Wells' martians and bloody Jack the Rippers. Who's next? Dick Van Dyke? Mr Bean? John Cleese and his dead parrot?
Paul Cornell
#69. A respect for authority is the basis for most medical education. Students may become so used to memorising that they become prey to the illusion that the reason for learning to parrot lectures and textbooks is that they are the 'truth'.
Petr Skrabanek
#70. In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#71. Fundamentalists can't take a joke. Ever. They want us to blindly obey, parrot everything they do, and believe in their dogmas.
Shahin Najafi
#72. What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#73. That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.
Mahatma Gandhi
#74. A bitter, disappointed, and jealous man kills the man he believes to be his wife's lover, this you consider to be unlikely. A murderous Nazi spy with orders to abduct a parrot, on the other hand -
Michael Chabon
#75. Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.
Neil Innes
#76. She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot
Mark Twain
#77. Sqwaak!" from Fletcher, the environmental crime fighting parrot in The Big Belch graphic novel by Kay Wood.
Kay Wood
#78. In 1986, our commencement speaker was George Schultz, secretary of state, fourth in line to the president. You get me-basic cable's second most popular fake newsman. At this rate, the class of 2021 will be addressed by a zoo parrot in a mortar-board that has been trained to say congratulations.
Stephen Colbert
#79. New Rule: A dog is the only animal that can get you laid. No offense, parrot guy, but it's not gonna happen. When women see you, they're not thinking, "I bet that guy is interesting," they're thinking, "That bird better not shit on my dress.
Bill Maher
#80. Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Saskya Pandita
#81. Any self-help program that discourages me from thinking for myself, that is, from tweaking what I've learned to understand myself is suspect. Growth is all about thinking creatively, and I can't very well do that if I take on the role of parrot.
Dannye Williamsen
#82. Talk nonsense to me, by all means, but do it with your own brain, and I shall love you for it. To talk nonsense in one's own way is almost better than to talk a truth that is someone else's; in the first instance you behave like a human being, while in the second you are merely being a parrot!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#83. Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it.
Swami Vivekananda
#84. I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.
Brion James
#85. Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot.
Johannes Trithemius
#86. God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot
and some of you people.
Billy Sunday
#87. There's a bit of a difference between a guy lying back being all sexy and come hither and mmrowr-worthy, and a man who has a toy stuffed parrot hanging from his nips.
Katie MacAlister
#88. She was not quite what you would call refined.
She was not quite what you would call unrefined.
She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.
Mark Twain
#89. If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.
George Bernard Shaw
#90. And I must borrow every changing shape
To find expression ... dance, dance
Like a dancing bear,
Cry like a parrot, chatter like an ape.
Let us take the air, in a tobacco trance
T. S. Eliot
#91. Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
Thomas Carlyle
#92. I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
Marie Corelli
#93. TOPER. Yesterday I carried to wait on a Relation of ours that has a Parrot, and whilst I was discoursing about some private Business, she converted the Bird, and now it talks of nothing but the Light of the Spirit, and the Inward man.
Susanna Centlivre
#94. Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites.
Steve Irwin
#96. A real Christian is the one who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
Billy Graham
#97. I think my wife is cheating on me, the only thing the parrot knows how to say is, quick out the window.
Rodney Dangerfield
#98. Jose unfroze and began looking around the room, picking up knickknacks and checking titles on the bookshelf. The parrot cracked pistachios and watched him.
"Dickhead," the parrot said.
I gave the bird some more nuts. I believe in positive reinforcement.
Rick Riordan
#99. ... remembered summer light, and the luminous inverted ghost of a boy with a parrot on his shoulder.
Michael Chabon
#100. You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that Gussie is a parrot. Fight against this. I shall add the oz.
P.G. Wodehouse
