Quotes About Barn Swallows

#1. You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

Karen Bass

#2. How would you like to have a thousand brilliantly colored cliff swallows keeping house in the eaves of your barn, and gobbling up insects over your farm at the rate of 100,000 per day? There are many Wisconsin farmsteads where such a swallow-show is a distinct possibility.

Aldo Leopold

#3. Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction.

Geraldine Jewsbury

#4. Charles - Charlie - Taylor had

David McCullough

#5. I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.

Brooke Shields

#6. The first time I fired up a car, felt the engine shudder and the wheel come to life in my hands, I was hooked. It was a feeling I can't describe. I still get it every time I get into a race car.

Mario Andretti

#7. I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like barn swallows, I swing. There is a fruitless commotion of dust and rubber at my feet. "Smothered it," I say promptly. After enough lessons the terminology becomes second nature.

John Updike

#8. It's complicated for me too. I know I'm not the man you might want me to be, for a serious relationship. But I want you so much, I don't care. I want you, Kelly, and I can try to change, if you need me to. All of me is yours.

Claire Kent

#9. Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.

John Updike

#10. I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the house.

Ella Henderson

#11. I am Muslim, Islam is Perfect but I am not, If I make a mistake blame it on me, not on my religion.

Mohammed Suleman Khan

#12. ErHe's not perfect.You are not either

Bob Marley

#13. The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state - it has saved us from all the misery that has beset mankind with inquisitions, internecine and civil wars, and other assorted ills.

Dumas Malone

#14. Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.

Horace

#15. I really like Dontrelle Willis' pitch; he's animated on the mound and is fun to watch - he gets into the game emotionally.

Jennie Finch

#16. I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

Maggie Smith

#17. Who knows how this whole evening is going to turn out anyway? It's like 'The Breakfast Club' in a powder keg in here and I'm wondering who's going to light the match.

Katja Millay