Quotes About Robins

#1. It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky, And when down the midnight the owl call to-whoo! Why, then the round moon is a daffodil too; Now sheer to the bough-tops the sap starts to climb, So, merry my masters, it's daffodil time.

Clinton Scollard

#2. I'd hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too stilted to try and learn how to write a song, to go to round robins and to learn things from other people on how to write a song. So I just stopped and did other things.

Joan Baez

#3. I often take ill-gotten gold
So folk won't starve or feel cold
But gold today was rightly won
When you named me your champion.
So learn this lesson well today
My warrant you will never pay
For like arrows, Robins fly free
None shall my master ever be

R.M. ArceJaeger

#4. Here and there robins sang

Various

#5. The breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.

Amelia Barr

#6. Light, the sweetness of sleepy robins whistling among the twilit maples, and the dance of a gusty group of daffodils blowing against the

L.M. Montgomery

#7. I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day frogs start singing, the last day you see robins in the fall, the first day for grasshoppers. In short, I want you to pay attention.

Derrick Jensen

#8. Birds are so much wiser than we! A robin builds a nest for robins. A seagull builds a nest for seagulls. They don't copy each other - or build themselves nests as described in The Birds' Decorating Magazine.

Dorothy Draper

#9. Mice are terribly chatty. They will chat about anything, and if there is nothing to chat about, they will chat about having nothing to chat about. Compared to mice, robins are reserved.

Robin McKinley

#10. How many would protest if restaurants began serving puppy and kitten flesh instead of calves? Robins instead of hens? Squirrels instead of pigs?

Mango Wodzak

#11. If I shouldn't be alive
When the Robins come,
Give the one in Red Cravat,
A Memorial crumb.

Emily Dickinson

#12. Don't you want to be anything. An architect or a gardener, or perhaps a painter?'
'No, I don't ... I'd like to do entirely different things. I'd like to understand what robins say to each other. ... I'd like to see how trees manage to drink water with their roots and get to be so big.

Hermann Hesse

#13. Here and there great branches had been torn away by the sheer weight of the snow, and robins perched and hopped on them in their perky conceited way, just as if they had done it themselves.

Kenneth Grahame

#14. If tough times seem to keep you down you might as well rest in peace."

Will Robins

Will Robinson

#15. XXXVII. If I shouldn't be alive When the robins come, Give the one in red cravat A memorial crumb. If I couldn't thank you, Being just asleep, You will know I'm trying With my granite lip!

Emily Dickinson

#16. It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.

Laila Robins

#17. By making yourself a life-long leaner you'll keep discovering new and exciting things about yourself and others.

Rachel Robins

#18. And yet, something inside you is so horrible or you're such a coward or whatever the reason that you decide that you have to end it. Robin Williams, at 63, did that today.

Shepard Smith

#19. He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]

John Prescott

#20. Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many of my classmates were cynical and jaded; some already had conservatory training, and they were there simply to get that Yale stamp of approval, which they saw as a career stepping-stone.

Laila Robins

#21. We'll have Superman for President, let Robin save the day.

Jethro Tull

#22. I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.

Laila Robins

#23. A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.

Laila Robins

#24. That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.

Laila Robins

#25. I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.

Laila Robins

#26. This song goes out to Robin Williams. It's called 'Last Hope'.

Hayley Williams

#27. If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I'd like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.

Irvin D. Yalom

#28. held off for now.

Glen Robins

#29. I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.

Laila Robins

#30. I'd rather do a great play than a mediocre play in New York. As much as I'd like to be seen in New York, that's not my driving motivation. My motivation is to play great roles, wherever they happen.

Laila Robins

#31. Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest dish; its absence reduces the rarest delicacy to hopeless insipidity, and dinner to despair.

Elizabeth Robins Pennell

#32. The unlimited power that lies sleeping within you, let it slumber no more.

Anthony Robins

#33. Saying thanks to the world, and acknowledging your own accomplishments, is a great way to feel good and stay positive.

Rachel Robins

#34. Robin Williams was the kind of generous person who would do things but not want to receive public credit for it.

Jessica Chastain

#35. This is Robin Hood in reverse. These tax cap proposals favor those with the most expensive properties. We are spreading the taxes to those with some of the least expensive property.

Clementa C. Pinckney

#36. Robin Roberts - what a trailblazer she has been in sports TV! One of the best in TV.

Megan Alexander

#37. I remember Robin [Williams] walked up to me after the last take and said, "Thanks boss! We nailed it!" That will probably be one of the best moments of my life.

Roberto Aguire

#38. You know what I would do? I would remake The Wizard of Oz with Robin Williams, and that's it. Just let him do the whole dang thing by himself.

Frank Caliendo

#39. He held her face in his hands and his gaze warmed her sadness. "I don't care how you got here. I'm just happy you were born." He rubbed noses with hers. "Real happy.

Selena Robins

#40. I did nine months in 'Mrs. Klein' in New York, then four months on the road. Then I did a movie directed by Philip Haas, who did 'Angels & Insects'. We shot 'The Blood Oranges' in Mexico for six weeks.

Laila Robins

#41. Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.

Laila Robins

#42. I'm like Robin Hood. I rob the rich to make these projects come alive ... not really rob. It's done with a smile.

Imelda Marcos

#43. My chest aches and swells at the same time. Wow - happy and sad will just about knock you over when they hit together.

Tudor Robins

#44. I want to work with Cherry Jones.

Laila Robins

#45. When you're comfortable and content with who you are, the voices of others who try and define, control or direct you are not important.

Rachel Robins

#46. One day, when I was 33, I shifted. I suddenly saw acting as a higher calling. I understood that my goal was to serve the play. And I realized if an actor can make audiences' hearts resonate or make them question their values - that's an important thing to do!

Laila Robins

#47. I would say [Fed policy] has been in some sense Reverse Robin Hood.

Kevin Warsh

#48. Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood.

Ridley Scott

#49. If everything came easy in business everyone would have a business and be millionaires. It takes hard work, consistent effort and courage to keeping fighting the monster of failure.

Delaine Robins

#50. Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form.

George Vecsey

#51. Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny ... and everything in between. But he was one of a kind.

Barack Obama

#52. It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.

Laila Robins

#53. You know how I always say that laughter is carbonated holiness? Well, Robin was the ultimate proof of that, and bubbles are spirit made visible.

Anne Lamott

#54. A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at the Guthrie and here and there across the country.

Laila Robins

#55. Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately.

Laila Robins

#56. I'm no robin hood, I enjoy making the money.

Carl Icahn

#57. 'Heartbreak House' was a lot of fun for me. I must have missed that day at school. I'd never read it or seen it. It's one of those things that a lot of people are familiar with.

Laila Robins

#58. There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley.

Claude Rains

#59. I joined Arsenal to play with Robin van persie - not replace him

Olivier Giroud