Canaries Quotes

42 quotes by 40 authors

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
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
A caged canary is safe but not free. — Walter E. Williams
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
You know it's time to start using mouthwash when your dentist leaves the room and sends in a canary. — Joan Rivers
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
Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine — Jay Baer
Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself. — David Horowitz
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
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf. — Anton Chekhov
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
Knowing without any doubt that the newly elected cannot help but be his zombies, Obama is the cat who swallowed the canary. — Judi McLeod
Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come. — Galway Kinnell
That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right. — Alvah Bessie
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
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
You can't soar like an eagle and crap like a canary. — Ed Sabol
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
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
My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands. — Jason Statham

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