Quotes About Canary

#1. If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine. It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.

Alan Greenspan

#2. You should see what she's wearing, Callie. It's velvet. Canary yellow velvet. Turban to match. She looks like a furry banana.

Sarah MacLean

#3. That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'

Alvah Bessie

#4. Three rabbits, two cats, three parakeets, a dove, two parrots, three turkeys, two geese, a canary, and nine ducks at last count were just about what Noah had started with, and he never brought his animals into the house.

Bob Tarte

#5. You know it's time to start using mouthwash when your dentist leaves the room and sends in a canary.

Joan Rivers

#6. Love is essential for happiness, but the person who loves so deeply that his or her happiness is placed entirely in the hands of another, resembles the little lamb who crept into the den of the nice, gentle little wolf and begged to be permitted to lie down and go to sleep, or the canary

Napoleon Hill

#7. Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine

Jay Baer

#8. Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.

Susan Collins

#9. Mrs. Grant glanced at her
husband. "She's always so fidgety.
Like a canary." She narrowed her
eyes at me. "I hate canaries."
I squeaked again. But not like a
canary. I hoped.

A&E Kirk

#10. You can't soar like an eagle and crap like a canary.

Ed Sabol

#11. Had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.

P.G. Wodehouse

#12. We went to Denmark twice and Germany and also to the Canary Isles one year. I remember once when we were playing Dresden in Germany.

Dixie Dean

#13. I'd soon put that little canary into the park on a winter's day as recommend you to bestow your heart on him!

Emily Bronte

#14. Knowing without any doubt that the newly elected cannot help but be his zombies, Obama is the cat who swallowed the canary.

Judi McLeod

#15. To me, Green Arrow in the past, what people loved about Oliver Queen pre-New 52 was his relationships with other heroes. Like his friendship with Green Lantern, his animosity with Hawkman, his romance with Black Canary - these are all the things that sort of defined him.

Jeff Lemire

#16. Perhaps I expected to look in and find a giant canary, stretched out on a carpet of dust, songless, capable of only heart murmurs for talk.

Ray Bradbury

#17. You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

Henry Ward Beecher

#18. Jonathan plopped his phone down and leaned back in his chair. "You look like you just ate a canary," Margie said to him. "I'm about to," he said.

C.D. Reiss

#19. My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.

Jason Statham

#20. Set between England and the Spanish Canary Islands, three women learn the truth about their shared past, and discover the importance of family. Spain, 1939. Following the wishes of her parents to keep her safe during the war, a young girl, Julia, enters a convent in Barcelona.

Rosanna Ley

#21. Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine.

Seth Godin

#22. Being in love, you know ... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.

Sarah Waters

#23. People stared more than ever on the train. Hagrid took up two seats and sat knitting what looked like a canary-yellow circus tent.

J.K. Rowling

#24. Would you mind getting a picture of us?
"Anything for one of Miss McLachlan's fans."
He looks like the cat that swallowed the canary.
"I take some mighty fine pictures of Miss McLachlan, if I do say so myself.

Georgia Cates

#25. Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

Anton Chekhov

#26. A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.

Chuck Baldwin

#27. Personally." My mother digs a smile into the side of her cheek. "I'm rooting for Logan."
Logan produces a grin that suggests he's the cat that ate the canary, and suddenly I'm feeling rather canary-ish.

Addison Moore

#28. You look like the cat that ate the canary."
"As a vegetarian, I object to that metaphor."
Scout grinned teethily at me. "As a carnivore, I object to your pickines. Now spill the goods."
-Scout and Lily

Chloe Neill

#29. Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary.

J.K. Rowling

#30. It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.

Walker Percy

#31. Claire glanced up from where she had been pacing, twisting the two-carat canary diamond ring on her third finger. She had not noticed her mother's entrance. She stopped pacing. She knew how much her mother loved that

Mara Stone

#32. Okay, woman. Spit that canary out and wipe those feathers off your chin. What the heck happened to you? Last night you were crying over a laxative commercial on TV.

Katherine Allred

#33. Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.

Antonya Nelson

#34. Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.

Annie Dillard

#35. An Indigo Bunting let out a trill, a cheery song, reminding me of better days, of hope and happiness and all the lofty promises a blue canary can sing about. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath of the heady morning air. Looking within myself, I searched for the man I once was.

Cheryl R Cowtan

#36. Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself.

John Keats

#37. She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years.

J.D. Salinger

#38. My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta.
But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.

Alison Bechdel

#39. It took only one gunshot. His brother and the canary were silenced forever, in front of his eyes ...

Refaat Alareer

#40. Canary light of oil lamps

Jonathan Safran Foer

#41. [Magnus] was wearing canary-yellow pajamas, and on his feet were green slippers with alien faces, complete with sproingy atennae.

Cassandra Clare

#42. Alas, yes. Unfortunately our little canary has gone Section 2 on us. He's absolutely Upney;* halfway to Dagenham, in fact. We're keeping him here because he's not deemed a hazard to himself, but so far he's confessed to assassinating Margaret Thatcher -

Charles Stross

#43. there was a certain twinkle in his eye, a knowing cat-that-ate-the-canary grin that drew me in.

Matt Converse

#44. A caged canary is safe but not free.

Walter E. Williams

#45. Did you ever stop to think that a dog is the only animal that doesn't have to work for a living? A hen has to lay eggs, a cow has to give milk, and a canary has to sing. But a dog makes his living by giving you nothing but love.

Dale Carnegie

#46. There are times when the heart, like the canary in the coal mine, breathes in the world's toxicity and begins to die.

Parker J. Palmer

#47. The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#48. He wore pink linen slacks, white sneakers and a canary yellow open-neck shirt. He evidently thought himself hot stuff.

Basil Copper

#49. We're performing several shows in the Canary Islands.

George Duke

#50. The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

Kurt Vonnegut

#51. Since that day I saw you in chemistry class with thatt canary yellow shirt, I wanted to make every day Christmas for you.

A.S. King

#52. Plant life is like the canary in the cage. When it starts to die off, we know we have problems. To ignore plant die off would be like the human race committing suicide. Human extinction would surely follow.

Steven Magee

#53. Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.

David Horowitz

#54. Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.

Galway Kinnell

#55. Who ever felt canary yellow and light blue are a suitable color should be tarred and feathered.

Rae Z. Ryans

#56. I think the canary left some feathers in there after you ate it.

Ally Carter

#57. My answer provided me with the first smile I'd seen on William's face. It was more a grin, a cat-catches-the-canary kind of grin that froze me in place. Had I been more intuitive then, I would've known of the things to come.

Paloma Beck

#58. If you asked why the post had not come, or why the boat did not sail for England, or why your coffee was cold, or why your boots were not cleaned, or why your window was shut, or why the canary didn't sing,-you would always be sure to be told, c'est la guerre!

Louise Mack

#59. Sand can be any shade of yellow, from peroxide blond to canary, or even with a tinge of pink.
Yellow sand is tender.

Herta Muller

#60. Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.

Sidney Crosby

#61. There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.

David Canary

#62. Being proud of something is a very tricky word and I sometimes think it has a bad connotation. I don't feel proud, I feel grateful. I'm lucky.

David Canary

#63. I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.

David Canary

#64. In Marin County, north of San Francisco, the search for a safe haven resulted in a new apartment complex - the first, and only, such government-sponsored project aimed at MCS.

Peter Radetsky

#65. It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.

David Canary

#66. To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around.

David Canary