A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured fan. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“There was a brilliant flash of white, then darkness. Four seconds later, there was nothing left of Crow Daddy but his clothes.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Then, early, early, early in the morning-just as in countless Disney films-I heard a rooster crow. But guess what? They don't do… — Vivian Vande Velde Copy Share Image
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“He punished the crow for its garrulity by changing the colour of its plumage from pure white to intense black, and forbade… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
“The crow does not forget the hand that wronged it. Your actions echo in dark places, your motives whispered in shadows. Intentions… — Dark Night Beacon Copy Share Image
Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,-- Dying hectic… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It's not the usual way the crow… — Catherine Tate Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
Crow paced back and forth, his form flickering like flame. “It’s been a thousand years, Alister. I never intended for anyone to… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
As a criminal you have scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In the beginning, there was no retirement. There were no old people. In the Stone Age, everyone was fully employed until age… — Mary-Lou Weisman Copy Share Image
I was born black, I attended all Negro schools including college, I grew up in the segregated South during Jim Crow. If… — Ezola B. Foster Copy Share Image
Die on a hilltop... eyeing the crows... waiting for your lids to close... but you want to watch as they peck your… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The American crow is at an all-time low of 82 birds. Others hit by the West Nile, like the black-capped chickadee, have rebounded. — Jeff Chapman Copy Share Image
“Bran looked at the crow on his shoulder, and the crow looked back. It had three eyes, and the third eye was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Trial and error” is not bad, but not the best. If you don’t know where the crowd is going, don’t follow it.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I dont think you should believe the words of a person on whose tree the crows sit most of the time cawing. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas. — Kate Horsley Copy Share Image
Crow walked toward her, arms outstretched like a man in a dream, which he was, in a way. Sometimes a dream is… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of… — Al-Jahiz Copy Share Image
Do you recall the story of the young Yogi in the Mahâbhârata who prided himself on his psychic powers by burning the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The caw of a rook on its homeward way, Oh! These shall be the music for me, For I love I love… — Eliza Cook Copy Share Image
When the hearthfire turns to blue, what to do? what to do? run outside, run and hide when his eyes are black… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Well, I think that’s sort of like Eve biting the apple. You were talking about Genesis. I think it’s like that, the… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
In order to better charge Moscow with human rights violations, the United States had to bend with regard to the more excessive… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Cincinnati like so many other cities, we know that so many of our schools, when it comes to public schools, are still… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Paraphrased: When Chuang Tzu was about to die, his disciples began planning a splendid funeral. However some disciples expressed concern that given… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image