Quotes About Meadowlarks

#1. On the fences the shiny blackbirds with red epaulets clicked their dry call. The meadowlarks sang like water, and the wild doves, concealed among the bursting leaves of the oaks, made a sound of restrained grieving.

John Steinbeck

#2. This dream the world is having about itself
includes a trace on the plains of the Oregon trail,
a groove in the grass my father showed us all
one day while meadowlarks were trying to tell
something better about to happen.

William Stafford

#3. Mandatory sentencing laws are frequently justified as necessary to keep "violent criminals" off the streets, yet these penalties are imposed most often against drug offenders and those who are guilty of nonviolent crimes.

Michelle Alexander

#4. I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.

Ice Cube

#5. Meadowlark, you are the best!

Jerry Colangelo

#6. I hope you don't think I'm sticking my nose where it doesn't belong, but

Ruth Cardello

#7. A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

Frank A. Clark

#8. The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.

Pearl S. Buck

#9. There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation of a super-saturated gas or the explosion of some unpredictable explosives.

Eugene Wigner

#10. Ours is an immutable reality which should make you shudder when you approach us if you are really conscious of the fact that your reality is a mere transitory and fleeting illusion, taking this form today and that tomorrow,

Luigi Pirandello

#11. Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

Elliott Carter

#12. Yeah, I love your hateful messiahs and gods, as I cherish all idiots, and mad dogs.

Fakeer Ishavardas

#13. Whenever I see an unmarried woman carrying a child, my first response is one of respect. I know she could have taken the quick fix without anyone knowing, but she chose instead to let an innocent child live.

Randy Alcorn

#14. Everyone I talked to was a recording-the bank, the elevator, your office, the school, a wrong number. You used to be able to call a wrong number and get a person.

Erma Bombeck

#15. One of the girls saw her, then did a double-take. Her eyes sparkled. Not a bright sparkle, but a dull, dark sparkle, like the twinkling of a lantern at the bottom of a deep well. Here's something fun, her eyes said. Here's something freakish. Let's play with it and see if we can make it cry.

Miyuki Miyabe

#16. Come to me, squeeze my hand, know my loneliness, and give me the love, the strength to prevail on the perilous road before me.

Dang Thuy Tram

#17. We call ourselves a "capacity building" organization; self-motivated and self-initiated capacity building. For example, in 30 years, I don't think I have signed a check for the company.

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

#18. I always revisit those things I think I know with the hope that I will learn and understand that much more".

~R. Alan Woods [2007]

R. Alan Woods