Quotes About Woodpeckers

#1. A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.

Carlo Collodi

#2. By providing safe nesting sites, woodpeckers are thus keystone organisms for a vast assemblage of birds the world over, including many owls, parrots, parids, flycatchers.

Bernd Heinrich

#3. The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.

Vance Havner

#4. Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#5. I would like to bury
all the hating eyes
under the sand somewhere ...

Anne Sexton

#6. It was easy to laugh at such conceits in full daylight. But night had a way of lending weight to phantasms.

Scott Lynch

#7. I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point.

Joan Didion

#8. If I'm home, I'll be happy. And if I'm around family, and if I'm working on projects with friends, I don't know what else I'd want to be doing.

Howard Warren Buffett

#9. All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.

Leo Kottke

#10. Natural marriage, therefore, is fully understood in the light of its fulfilment in the sacrament of Matrimony: only in contemplating Christ does a person come to know the deepest truth about human relationships.

Pope Francis