Canaries Quotes
42 quotes by 40 authors
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow wings), the chesty…
— Terry Kay
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A caged canary is safe but not free.
— Walter E. Williams
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A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.
— Chuck Baldwin
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You know it's time to start using mouthwash when your dentist leaves the room and sends in a canary.
— Joan Rivers
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Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American…
— Frank N. Ikard
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Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine
— Jay Baer
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Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.
— David Horowitz
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And he supposed it might not be the best of days. But then, he was flying the mails and was not expected to squat on…
— Ernest K. Gann
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
— Anton Chekhov
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Women and gay people are the litmus test of whether a society is democratic and respecting human rights. We are the canaries in the mine.
— Peter Tatchell
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Knowing without any doubt that the newly elected cannot help but be his zombies, Obama is the cat who swallowed the canary.
— Judi McLeod
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Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.
— Galway Kinnell
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That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.
— Alvah Bessie
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It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history without contemporary significance.…
— Felix S. Cohen
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Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the…
— Joe Randazzo
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You can't soar like an eagle and crap like a canary.
— Ed Sabol
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She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years.
— J D Salinger
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Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.
— Jaron Lanier
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My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.
— Jason Statham
Who Wrote These Canaries Quotes
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