Crow Quotes
208 quotes by 171 authors
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I wouldn't vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow laws.
— Ron Paul
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Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do…
— Lani Guinier
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The first Republican I knew was my father and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in…
— Condoleezza Rice
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Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination…
— Rand Paul
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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we…
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
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London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense,…
— Paul Verlaine
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It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
— Thomas More
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Give people a taste of Old Crow, and tell them it's Old Crow. Then give them another taste of Old Crow, but tell them it's…
— David Ogilvy
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Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living,…
— Epictetus
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If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in…
— Sitting Bull
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While it is not always profitable to analogize fact to fiction, La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there…
— Felix Frankfurter
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Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.
— Myrlie Evers-Williams
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The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where? - and day…
— W G Sebald
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But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock…
— Jeannette Walls
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On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every…
— Heather O'Neill
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Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive
— Lou Brock
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Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character…
— Al-Jahiz
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The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very…
— George Catlin
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It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.
— Antisthenes
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The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.
— Jack Handey
Who Wrote These Crow Quotes
171 authors contributed a total of 208 Crow Quotes, led by these top contributors: