Quotes About Starlings

#1. I searched for my own heart
and long after I had lost my way
in the days trailing past with their foliage
in the aloof sky blue with distance
I thought I'd find my heart
where I'd kept your eyes two brown butterflies
and I saw the swallows swoop
and shadows starlings

Ingrid Jonker

#2. The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.

Charles Reznikoff

#3. Long before the stars died the birds began to sing - cool rippling doves, loud cheery starlings, the long lilting trills of warblers and thrushes.

Mike Bond

#4. A flock isn't such a bad thing if you belong, but a few hundred starlings will tear an unlucky martin to feathers if it crosses their path.

Joe Hill

#5. And then you might learn, as we did from a local, that the reason hundreds of starlings in flight will twist and turn in unison is because the ones on the outside are constantly trying to get to the inside where they feel safer. Some

Bill Bryson

#6. I go to the Natural History Museum and look at the cage of stuffed starlings there. But my favourite thing is the big blue whale. The scale of it is unbelievable, and makes you feel how insignificant you are as a human being.

Arthur Darvill

#7. Now I will burn you back, I will burn you through,
Though I am damned for it we two will lie
And burn, here where the starlings fly

Charlotte Mew

#8. Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.

Stephen King

#9. Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

John Webster

#10. You can FEEL the wave of emotion online when something is about to go viral, good or bad. A scientist I met once mathematically compared internet behavior to swarm behavior seen in starlings or locusts.

Felicia Day

#11. Even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.

Christopher Paolini

#12. The intimacy of her name on his lips: the years fled like starlings.

Jo Baker

#13. it, for numbers of Rooks and starlings

Aesop

#14. My anxiety house a house and a fence and a deer in the yard. A zip code. A plague of starlings.

Kristy Bowen

#15. Headaches were like birds. Starlings. They could be perfectly calm, then a single acorn could drop and send the entire flock to the sky.

Erika Swyler

#16. Old pear tree starlings announce harvest time

Phil Noble

#17. On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence.

John Updike

#18. Perhaps we project on to starlings that which we deplore in ourselves: our numbers, our aggression, our greed, and our cruelty. Like starlings, we are taking over the world.

Terry Tempest Williams

#19. Human material culture - the buildings and roads and works that would strike any human as an obvious sign of intelligence - had for years seemed like part of an elaborate mating ritual to the starlings, useless and flamboyant as the peacock's tail.

Joe Pitkin

#20. I was woken by a shell-burst in the trench of sleep. Heart skipping, with eyes fighting light, my thoughts sprang up like a field of starlings startled by a farmer's gunshot, a thousand separate, autonomous specks that swirled into a single united black shape.

Will Wiles

#21. Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical.

Loretta Swit

#22. I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children.

Martin Ryle

#23. But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind

Jack London

#24. It's hard to be happy when you are facing 120 to 140 degree temperatures and nothing seems to be moving in a direction that you think or they think or you've been told it's supposed to be moving in.

Janis Karpinski

#25. It is entirely possible that you get unpredictable behavior out of predictable rules.

Frank Heppner

#26. Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.

Abby Sunderland

#27. I think the nice thing about 'Doctor Who' is whether people like it or don't like it, somewhere, someone loves you and will always love you - and the more everyone hates you, the more they'll love you.

Peter Capaldi