Top 100 Quotes About Crows
#2. Flapping crows. Shiny beetles crawling in the undergrowth. A patch of sky, frozen in a cloudy retina, reflected in a puddle on the ground. Yoo-hoo. Being and nothingness.
Donna Tartt
#3. Whenever he's tried to dig out such secrets from her behind her mother's back, she has retreated like a tortoise into her child's shell. Children are quick to sense a threat. (From "Crows" by Mrinal Pande)
Keerti Ramachandra
#4. A crow may put on human shape or crow shape, but we remain crows," he replied firmly. "Hawks, too, are the same, whether they are born in human nests or hawk ones. The nestlings must always be protected. Since you have chosen to protect these, I and mine will protect you.
Tamora Pierce
#5. The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
George Catlin
#6. If you don't hear the crows of the roosters in the mornings, you are one cursed city fellow!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#7. oh, don't look so aggrieved. I have never met a man I didn't provoke" ~ Asha Greyjoy (from a Feast For Crows)
George R R Martin
#8. Crows will fight over a dead man's flesh and kill each other for his eyes.
George R R Martin
#10. The book you hold in your hands is the fifth volume of A Song of Ice and Fire. The fourth volume was A Feast for Crows. However, this volume does not follow that one in the traditional sense, so much as run in tandem with it.
Anonymous
#11. The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.
Franz Kafka
#12. Die on a hilltop ... eyeing the crows ... waiting for your lids to close ... but you want to watch as they peck your flesh ... Ironic that they go for the eyes first ...
Eddie Vedder
#13. There was silence on the other end. The static crackle from one hundred kilometres of telephone lines. Crows sitting on them, shivering, while people's conversations darted past under their feet.
John Ajvide Lindqvist
#14. Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.
John Milton
#15. Under the sea the crows are white as snow, I know, I know, oh, oh, oh.
George R R Martin
#16. Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#17. Finn fell asleep draped in Kittens and dreamed that the corn walked the earth on skinny white roots, liked to joke with the crows, and wasn't afraid of anything.
Laura Ruby
#18. Hush little owl,
You're with Twi.
I got the moves to get you by.
Big bad crows.
St. Aggie's scamps
Ain't got nothin to show the champ.
I'll pop a spiral
With a twist,
Do a three-sixty
And scatter mist
Kathryn Lasky
#19. Scarecrow queen. Nothing but a dupe, alone in a field, hoping to keep the crows at bay.
Melinda Salisbury
#20. Leigh stands there, not so much a figure to scare crows as to beckon doves.
Paul Russell
#21. Well; I would rather die yonder than in a street, or on a frequented road, ' I reflected. 'And far better that crows and ravens -if any ravens there be in these regions- should pick my flesh from my bones, than that they should be prisoned in a work-house coffin, and moulder in a pauper's grave.
Charlotte Bronte
#22. But reality has too much darkness in it. Too many crows
Margaret Atwood
#23. Crows are the world's great survivors. They are capable of living at any height and in any climate; as much at home in the back streets of Delhi as on the heights of Tungnath. Another
Ruskin Bond
#24. I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.
Amy Neftzger
#25. No wonder Van Gogh blasted his head off. Crows and sunlight. Idle zero. Zero eating your guts like an animal inside, letting you shit and fuck and blink your eyes, but nothing, a nothing.
Charles Bukowski
#26. In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.
Eden Robinson
#27. You shall tie the marriage knot with the ropemaker's daughter and the cawing of the crows will be your wedding song.
Jacob Grimm
#29. If you want to fly with the eagles you can't hang out with the crows.
Brock Lesnar
#31. I felt rippling wheat field and crows circling within me. I was a vase of sunflowers ready to spit seeds like weapons at the world. I understood how a man could be mad enough to slice off his own ear, just to get back the person he loved most in the world.
Jodi Baker
#32. It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead , in the other case while alive .
Antisthenes
#33. Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.
Laozi
#35. Where there's a doctor it's always a bad sign. Even when they are not doing the killing themselves it means a death is close, and in that way they are like ravens or crows.
Margaret Atwood
#36. In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
William James
#38. The men in black walked back across the field, back to their dry homes, like crows returning to the nest. I trailed behind them, a confused and drenched brown sparrow behind the flock.
Laura Bickle
#39. Sisters, when about their work, should not put on clothing which would make them look like images to frighten the crows from the corn. It is more gratifying to their husbands and children to see them in a becoming, well-fitting, attire, than it can be to merely visitors or strangers.
Ellen G. White
#40. Honestly, all crows are not ravens
Munia Khan
#41. But what after all is one night? A short space, especially when the darkness dims so soon, and so soon a bird sings, a cock crows, or a faint green quickens, like a turning leaf, in the hollow of the wave.
Virginia Woolf
#42. Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?
John Milton
#43. When they're born outside, crows come and pluck their eyes out.
David Sedaris
#44. A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.
Mark Twain
#45. Rick and Scotty, who had heard Australian slang before from Digger Sears, one-time mate of the Tarpon, broke into chuckles.
"I'd better translate," Scotty said, "'Lord stone the crows' is just an expression. Oscar Ashe is hard cash. Yakka is hard work. And dinkum oil is gospel truth.
John Blaine
#46. Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.
Nicolas Bentley
#47. As a child I drew objects that caught my eye outside the window of my room - the dry twigs, leaves and lizard-like creatures crawling about, the servant chopping firewood and, of course, and number of crows in various postures on the rooftops of the buildings opposite.
R. K. Laxman
#48. The dew on the leaves before the sun rises.
The silence before the cock crows.
The eggshell not yet broken by its chick.
Not what is, but what might be.
John Speed
#49. Before the cock crows
The Raven will call
And you will be no longer."
~Asher Lake
Shawn Reilly
#50. Many lions is a pride; many crows is a murder; many bumbles is a throcket; many dragons is a bonfire.
Stephen King
#51. A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.
Muhammad Ali
#52. So much affirmation ends up sounding like a murder of crows passing overhead and it is easy to be afraid of murder-by-crow-- though sometimes you have to start flapping your arms and follow them.
Lucia Perillo
#53. Language is not morally neutral because the human brain is not neutral in its desires. Neither is the dog brain. Neither is the bird brain: crows hate owls. We like some things and dislike others, we approve of some things and disapprove of others. Such is the nature of being an organism.
Margaret Atwood
#54. If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
Henry Ward Beecher
#55. It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.
Antisthenes
#56. Treats and tricks.
Witch broomsticks.
Jack-o-lanterns
Lick their lips.
Crows and cats.
Vampire bats.
Capes and fangs
And pointed hats.
Werewolves howl.
Phantoms prowl.
Halloween's
Upon us now.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#57. He looked from His heavens and saw it was good, the toes and the crows all looked like they should. The bunny was quick, the finch bright as a daisy, the owl flew at night, and the tortoise was lazy.
Lois Greiman
#58. Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla.
Eden Robinson
#59. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
Sitting Bull
#60. Live bitter, so the crows will have no taste for you when you're dead.
Laini Taylor
#61. For their size, crows are among the brainiest organisms on Earth, outclassing not only other birds (with the possible exception of parrots), but also most mammals.
Candace Savage
#62. I'm sorry ... what?" "For they are the Crows," he intoned solemnly, "and they are the harbingers of death.
Shelly Laurenston
#63. My jaw dropped open. Holy crows ... There's a couple of eagles mixed in there, Luke commented.And a few hawks, Aiden added.I rolled my eyes. Okay. Holy birds of prey! Is that better?Much, Aiden murmured.
J. Lynn
#64. And Winterfell ... grey granite, oak and iron, crows wheeling around the towers, steam rising off the hot pools in the godswood, the stone kings sitting on their thrones ... how could Winterfell be gone?
George R R Martin
#65. From the animist point of view, humans belong in a sacred place because they themselves are sacred. Not sacred in a special way, not more sacred than anything else, but merely as sacred as anything else
as sacred as bison or salmon or crows or crickets or bears or sunflowers.
Daniel Quinn
#66. Is that all we mortals are? The victims of tortured irony to amuse an insane murder of gods?
A murder of crows, a murder of gods-I like that, lass.
Steven Erikson
#67. And then he was silent; and from far above they heard the sounds of crows flying, cawing angrily. "Crows. Family Corvidae. Collective noun," intoned Mr. Croup, relishing the sound of the word. "a murder.
Neil Gaiman
#68. the crows are like a harrow to
unbroken ground they turn it loose
they give it air
Maurice Manning
#69. The world is entrapped through uneasiness, not through diseases (illnesses). Diseases (illnesses) are caused by uneasiness. Do the trees get any diseases (illnesses)? Do the crows become paralyzed or have high blood pressure?
Dada Bhagwan
#70. Our enemies leave our bodies for the crows and the wolves. Our friends bury us in secret graves.
George R R Martin
#71. Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
Barbara Kingsolver
#72. Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
Thomas Carlyle
#73. Sheep all together, cars all together, people all together, crows all together, ants all together! Everywhere is full of herds! To breath comfortably, to feel free, to think better and to find the beauties of the unknown paths leave your herd! In whichever herd you are in, leave it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#74. Rooster, maybe well crows, but the eggs still bears the chicken.
Margaret Thatcher
#75. Six of Crows
A smol precious deadly flower, two gaybies, a beautiful Grisha warrior, a grumpy convict, and their brilliant, fearless (and sometimes clueless) leader perform a heist of epic proportions.
Leigh Bardugo
#76. Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.
Epictetus
#77. I don't know what's wrong with me. it's just so easier to kill people than take care of them goodreads six of crows
Leigh Bardugo
#78. Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.
Stacey Lee
#79. If a rooster crows while you're thinking about a man," the fortuneteller had once told Maria, "then he's the one you'll marry.
Karen Cecil Smith
#81. Seeing David was a full-body experience. I felt heavy and light at the same time. He gives me butterflies, but they aren't butterflies. They're bigger and darker and scarier, like crows. They're dangerous. And did Bill ever give me butterflies?
Jessica Hawkins
#82. Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.
Clive James
#83. Shagga son of Dolf will chop off their manhoods and feed them to the crows.
George R R Martin
#84. I stared into the man's lifeless eyes. His face was blue, but it could've been from the cold. His body was bloated, but he could've just been fat. None of this explained the crows lining up on the tree branch though. --The Body By the Tree
Yawatta Hosby
#85. Crows squawked raucously in the trees. It sounded like they were tearing something apart, something they didn't even want, just for the fun of destroying it.
Janet Fitch
#86. September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets - Crows - and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming - An Innuendo sear That makes the Heart put up its Fun And turn Philosopher.
Emily Dickinson
#87. You ever get into that shit again? Lotta trees behind Stonehaven. I'll string you up from one." "And let the crows peck at my corpse?" "Nah. Doesn't hurt if you're already dead.
Kelley Armstrong
#88. Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.
Helen Keller
#89. Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.
Josh Billings
#91. As God contains all good things, He must also contain a sense of playfulness
a gift he has shared with Creatures other than ourselves, as witness the tricks Crows play, and the sportiveness of Squirrels, and the frolicking of Kittens.
Margaret Atwood
#92. What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'
Lady Gregory
#93. She could hear all the doubt crows rustling around, bumping her shoulders, staring down at the naked forms on the bed. Not
Ruthie Knox
#94. Under a low sun, pursued by fish and mounted by crows and veiled in a loud swarm of bluebottle flies, the body comes down the river like a deadfall stripped clean.
Jon Clinch
#95. The crows assert that a single crow could destroy the heavens.This is certainly true,but it proves nothing against the heavens,because heaven means precisely:the impossibility of crows.
Franz Kafka
#96. The wind stirred the drying leaves of wild grapevines with a papery rustle behind me, and in the distance a murder of crows passed, squabbling in shrill cries.
Diana Gabaldon
#97. What is the little one thinking about?
Very wonderful things, no doubt;
Unwritten history!
Unfathomed mystery!
Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks,
And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks,
As if his head were as full of kinks
And curious riddles as any sphinx!
J.G. Holland
#98. So crows must spend a lot of the day wondering what they are supposed to do now, what they are here for, and that seemed like a cruel existential dilemma for anyone who didn't have TV.
Peter Heller
#99. Crows don't take from you," Dean said. "They give your soul wings.
Caitlin Kittredge
#100. Dracula shows his fangs, and the Okie flees through a cornfield. Cornstalks smack her face. "Help!" she screams to a sky full of crows. "He's not actually from Europe!
Karen Russell
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