Canary Quotes
41 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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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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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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My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.
— Jason Statham
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Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.
— Susan Collins
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Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.
— Sidney Crosby
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Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself.
— John Keats
Who Wrote These Canary Quotes
40 authors contributed a total of 41 Canary Quotes, led by these top contributors: