He reached up with his free arm for them, not for help…

“That night marks my life's dark center, the moment when growing up ended and the long downward slope toward death began. The wonder to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilisation than other creatures, and at the same time live by lower standards…

— H. Jay Dinshah

An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture.

— Christopher Moore

Here is a list of terrible things, The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings The rabid bite of the dogs of war, The voice…

— Clive Barker

If you ask my dad for help... he'll help. Like a vulture helps an over-run armadillo on a Texas highway. One peck at the…

— Christopher Titus

Sometimes, I must admit, I'd like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn't look right. I'd like to play for…

— Jimmy Page

Do you blame a vulture for perching over a carcass?

— Chinua Achebe

Someone said to me, "How's your rabbit food?" I said, "Fine." ... "How's your vulture food?"

— Doug Graham

Heart of a vulture Constantly together, But always apart.

— Anonymous

“Author: A common gadabout who freely wanders over the landscape with wanton disregard. His days are spent picking up all the stray free words…

— Leopold Throckmorton

...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.

— Jim Morrison

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile…

— W. Somerset Maugham

If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have…

— Seneca the Younger

Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a…

— Jared Diamond

He groaned slightly and winced like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.

— Anonymous