Top 28 Quotes About Finches
#1. Slim young women were swathed in chic black dresses, here to attend a ceremony in one of the hotel's many reception rooms. They wore small but expensive accessories, like vampire finches in search of blood, longing for a hint of light they could reflect.
Haruki Murakami
#2. The thing I can't, won't, mention to him is that I see Finch everywhere - in the hallways at school, on the street, in my neighborhood. Someone's face will remind me of him, or someone's walk or someone's laugh. It's like being surrounded by a thousand different Finches. I wonder if this is normal,
Jennifer Niven
#3. We Finches don't marry the children of rednecked white trash.
Harper Lee
#4. Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds.
Peter R. Grant
#5. There was no way I could explain that it had all happened so fast, that I wasn't smiling away at the cats chewing the birds. It was that my happiness about the sweet peas and the finches hadn't had time to fade. As
Lucia Berlin
#6. Contrary to the legend, Darwin's finches do not appear to have inspired his earliest theoretical views on evolution, even after he finally became an evolutionist in 1837; rather it was his evolutionary views that allowed him, retrospectively, to understand the complex case of the finches.
Frank Sulloway
#7. He was nearly blind in his left eye, and said left eyes were the tribal curse of the Finches. Whenever he wanted to see something well, he turned his head and looked from his right eye.
Harper Lee
#8. The more time I spent at the Finches', the more I realized what a waste of my life this school crap was. It was nothing but a holding tank for kids without bigger plans or ideas.
Augusten Burroughs
#9. But here's a bit of spoilsport historical reality: It wasn't the finches that inspired Darwin, it was the Mockingbirds.
David Quammen
#10. I have stated, that in the thirteen species of ground-finches, a nearly perfect gradation may be traced, from a beak extraordinarily thick, to one so fine, that it may be compared to that of a warbler.
Charles Darwin
#11. I'm happy to feed the squirrels - tree rats with the agility of point guards - but in fair weather, they frighten my finches. They leap from snowbank to porch to feeder and stuff their cheek pouches with chickadee feed.
Donald Hall
#12. May sun finches warble sweet melodies in his ear,
Rae Carson
#13. Cactus finches do more with cactus than Plains Indians did with buffalo. They nest in cactus; they sleep in cactus; they often copulate in cactus; they drink cactus nectar; they eat cactus flowers, cactus pollen, and cactus seeds. In return they pollinate the cactus, like bees.
Jonathan Weiner
#14. On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging.
Charles Darwin
#15. But, even when angry, she had a voice that would put finches in their place and lull them to silence.
S.D. Lawendowski
#16. You make a mystery of playing political love.
I could kill for you. I'd bring you an eagle stuffed
with finches. It's pouch growing large and groaning
in your palm. A cliff of umbrellas and memory
shaping your every move.
Paige Taggart
#18. I stand by my philosophy. Secrets fucking kill.
C.M. Stunich
#19. Smiling has always been easier than explaining why you're sad
Unknown
#20. As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.
Robert Breault
#21. The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
Ikue Mori
#22. My heart clenched at the show of protectiveness, of possession. What would it feel like to have someone love you like that? To have them know all your worst secrets and want you anyway? "We're
Skye Warren
#23. I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest.
Al Gore
#24. That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.
Richard P. Feynman
#26. I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#27. Time had to be created to make the existence of life on earth possible.
Sunday Adelaja
#28. I'm rambling again. Wandering off the point. But this is the true story of my wasted life ...
Mordecai Richler
