“The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing? — Abbas ibn Firnas Copy Share Image
let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
If the bible myth of Jonah in the whale and the Mother Goose myth of Jack and the Beanstalk were switched at… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force-fed enormous amounts of grain and fat, which causes their livers to swell to… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
My personal favorite remains Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, first home game after Katrina vs. Tennessee on a Monday night. Getting goose bumps… — Pat Forde Copy Share Image
Changing leaders is something that's pretty normal in our environment, and as we always know with geese, they're extremely loyal to their… — Emma Hayes Copy Share Image
With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
How ironic, she thought, as she fell to her certain death, that at that moment she would have given anything to be… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's… — Ardyth Kennelly Copy Share Image
When you think of things that influenced your life, Mother Goose influenced more people than almost any other thing, the rhythms of… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Wild geese have so much less fat than their domestic brethren that, as far as the kitchen is concerned, the two birds… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
Yeah, I’m thinking it’s a reunion or, since it is our classmates, a collection of idiots. Let’s call it a meese. Like… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
I don't care if you call it AO for Adults Only, or Chopped Liver or Father Goose. Your movie will still have… — Jack Valenti Copy Share Image
There are degrees and kinds of solitude. I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I love the water. Everything about it. Smelling the humidity in the air, seeing the mist rise in the morning, feeling the… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
When you take into public ownership a profitable industry the profits soon disappear. The goose that laid the golden eggs goes broody.… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Geese always support each other. When a goose gets injured two birds always accompany it down to the ground. Just as geese… — Emma Hayes Copy Share Image
It is more worthy in the eyes of God . . . if a writer makes three pages sharp and funny about… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
America is so special, everybody wants to go there. And there's not a thought given to how it got special. It's just… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
We usually recognize a beginning. Endings are more difficult to detect. Most often, they are realized only after reflection. Silence. We are… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
For many a pasty have you robbed of blood, And many a Jack of Dover have you sold That has been heated… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Politicians, bureaucrats, editors, new commentators, 'economists' teachers,' and other word artists who denounce private enterprise and praise socialism are their own worst… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
It might sound trite, but happiness is a decision not a destination, and my choices now are all based on whether not… — Suw Charman-Anderson Copy Share Image
I have developed a rash on my body where the rough cloth rubs on my skin. I wanted to take a bath,… — Karen Cushman Copy Share Image
When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Edward Snowden's real "crime" is that he demonstrated how knowledge can be used to empower people, to get them to think as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
