Quotes About Cuckoos

#1. I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs
By the known rules of ancient liberty,
When straight a barbarous noise environs me
Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.

John Milton

#2. The cuckoos remain silent for a long time (for several seasons) until they are able to sing sweetly (in the Spring) so as to give joy to all.

Chanakya

#3. Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it.

Karen Joy Fowler

#4. Hah!" said Granny Weatherwax. "I should just say it is a folk song! I knows all about folk songs. Hah! You think you're listenin' to a nice song about ... cuckoos and fiddlers and nightingales and whatnot, and then it turns out to be about ... something else entirely," she added darkly.

Terry Pratchett

#5. O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?

William Wordsworth

#6. The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more.

Felix Dennis

#7. Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

Iris Chang

#8. I think there's a lot of great beliefs in the Buddhist religion, I think there's a lot of great beliefs in the Christian religion, I think there's a lot of great beliefs in no religion. It just depends on how you feel on the inside.

Cristian Machado

#9. Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last; though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#10. The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.

Chanakya

#11. I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.

Kim Weston

#12. When I was seven, I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with my mom. When Jack Nicholson was strapped to the table getting electroshock treatment, my mom burst into tears. She said it reminded her of her life, and I was stunned, because I didn't know my mom had been nominated for an Oscar.

Christopher Titus

#13. Truth often sacrificed for the sake of stability and peace.

Toba Beta

#14. The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.

Edmund Spenser

#15. Billy here has been talkin' about slicin' his wrists again, so is there seven of you guys who'd like to join him and make it therapeutic?

Ken Kesey

#16. Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings; compassion, in the first instance, is good for both; I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.

Walter Savage Landor

#17. The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.

William Wordsworth

#18. If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.

Will Rogers

#19. Whatever we shared is gone, because it was destined to be gone from the minute it started.

David Levithan

#20. I can't take his genius any more.

Rita Hayworth

#21. The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#22. The National League is baseball to me.

Kerry Wood

#23. We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

Hugh Blair

#24. They set off through the soft lingering light. One cuckoo in the depths of Layer Wood and one in the dense shrubbery of the Dower House were keeping up their eternal question and answer, and in the comparative coolness which had come with the evening all the scents of summer had magnified.

Norah Lofts

#25. To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again

Terence McKenna

#26. The behavior of the pigeon
is beyond reproach,
but the mountain cuckoo?

Yosa Buson

#27. When you've already been disappointed by the one person you're supposed to trust most in your life, you're not exactly keen on giving people any kind of ammunition over you.

Elle Kennedy

#28. The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring.

Thomas Gray

#29. Never be afraid to try. The only angle through which you can approach success is by the "try-angle". You may fail if you try, but shame unto you if you don't try at all. If you fail ... rise up and try again and again!

Israelmore Ayivor

#30. Some days life just wasn't worth the trouble of chewing through the leather straps on the straitjacket.

Katie Maxwell

#31. Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans ... must strike out for themselves, and only by doing this will we create a great and distinctly American art.

Thomas Eakins

#32. Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.

Henny Youngman

#33. But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.

Ken Kesey

#34. Her yelling continues until I answer the door to find her on her knees shouting through the letterbox, like a gynaecologist bellowing into a woman.

Alan Partridge

#35. If the cuckoo does not sing, kill it.

Oda Nobunaga

#36. It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.

Margaret Thatcher

#37. I think there are some groups of stocks that are highly vulnerable because they're in cuckoo land in terms of valuations,

Marc Faber

#38. My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since.

John Grisham

#39. We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

Mark Twain

#40. Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.

Walter Savage Landor

#41. The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control. Libertarians reject both extremes in favor of the government leaving control of your life to you.

Michael Badnarik