Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the… — Joe Randazzo Copy Share Image
We are the canaries in the mine. If we go, the last ecosystems go. So does the wisdom of how to sustain… — Rebecca Adamson Copy Share Image
The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history… — Felix S. Cohen Copy Share Image
Surfers are the canaries down the mine. Those of us who surf spend more time than anyone soaking in whatever the sea… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action. — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
And he supposed it might not be the best of days. But then, he was flying the mails and was not expected… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
It seems to me that society usually wins. There are, to be sure, free spirits in the world, but their freedom, in… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You should see what she’s wearing, Callie. It’s velvet. Canary yellow velvet. Turban to match. She looks like a furry banana. — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
The song of canaries Never varies, And when they're moulting They're pretty revolting. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Fear sucks. Because you never know when it will attack. Sometimes it sneaks up behind you, giggling like your best girlfriend from… — Jennifer Rardin Copy Share Image
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird… — Frank N. Ikard Copy Share Image
She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come. — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
