Quotes About Fowls

#1. The same week our fowls were stolen, Daphne Moran had her throat cut.

Ronald Hugh Morrieson

#2. Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.

John Dryden

#3. They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is to the painter.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#5. When men's fowls and dogs are lost, they know to seek for them again, but they lose their mind and do not know to seek for it.

Inazo Nitobe

#6. Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#7. Countless were the hares ready skinned and the plucked fowls that hung on the trees for burial in the pots, numberless the wildfowl and game of various sorts suspended from the branches that the air might keep them cool. Sancho counted more than sixty wine skins

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#8. Mussolini and his lover were brought back to Milan and hung upside-down like fowls.

Catherine McNamara

#9. Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.

William Shakespeare

#10. As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. The mariner will have dominion over the atmosphere and the great deep, over the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air.

Mary Baker Eddy

#12. I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.

Black Elk

#13. The vast white headless phantom floats further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of fowls, augment the murderous din.

Herman Melville

#14. All my life, I have been sickened by everything connected with meat-, fish-, and poultry eating. As a child, I saw apparently nice, kind people wring the necks of fowls, and I thought it foul; and I wondered if I could ever exert any influence to help bring such unworthiness to an end.

Percy Grainger

#15. I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

Earl King

#16. As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.

James E. Faust

#17. Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#18. If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.

Caitlyn Jenner

#19. And it struck Obinze that, a few years ago, they were attending weddings, now it was christenings and soon it would be funerals. They would die. They would all die after trudging through lives in which they were neither happy nor unhappy.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#20. I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry.

Leon Theremin

#21. I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.

Ray Harryhausen

#22. The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

Gabriel Marcel