Quotes About The Finches

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. But here's a bit of spoilsport historical reality: It wasn't the finches that inspired Darwin, it was the Mockingbirds.

David Quammen

#6. 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

#7. You have found your style at last. You wrote with no thoughts of fame and money, and put your heart into it,

Louisa May Alcott

#8. We Finches don't marry the children of rednecked white trash.

Harper Lee

#9. Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds.

Peter R. Grant

#10. The yawn of the void. A siren call for the unimaginative

Dean Cavanagh

#11. 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

#12. He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.

J.K. Rowling

#13. The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.

Marina Abramovic

#14. 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

#15. The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#16. Don't keep saying 'huh', Silas. It makes you sound so crotchety." "Well, maybe I am crotchety. And I'll keep saying 'huh' if I want to, Sarah. Huh.

Angie Sage

#17. 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

#18. The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.

Thomas Merton

#19. May sun finches warble sweet melodies in his ear,

Rae Carson

#20. 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

#21. The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.

Madame De Stael

#22. On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging.

Charles Darwin

#23. 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

#24. But, even when angry, she had a voice that would put finches in their place and lull them to silence.

S.D. Lawendowski