Finches Quotes
17 quotes by 13 authors
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On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific…
— David Lack
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He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to deflecting his pain…
— Ted Dekker
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James Finch has always had pretty stout cars for the restrictor-plate races and I know we'll be very competitive at Daytona.
— Kurt Busch
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James Finch is exactly what I'm looking for, as far as getting back into the race car to have fun.
— Kurt Busch
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When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want…
— Sandra Lee
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Journey’s end In western lands beneath the Sun The flowers may rise in Spring, The trees may bud, the waters run, The merry finches sing.…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat.…
— Harper Lee
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I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there. "It's bullshit," he tells me, flicking through…
— Melina Marchetta
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hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch
— Harper Lee
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I felt like one who wants to trap and cage a little bird, and after years of waiting and luring and baiting finds that she…
— Elizabeth Wein
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Finch picked up one of the ancient fax-mags and brought it over to me. "I don't need anything to read," I said. "I'll just sit…
— Connie Willis
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Calpurnia evidently remembered a rainy Sunday when we were both fatherless and teacherless. Let to its own devices, the class tied Eunice Ann Simpson to…
— Harper Lee
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Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that…
— Beryl Markham
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I had never thought about it, but summer was Dill by the fishpool smoking string, Dill's eyes alive with complicated plans to make Boo Radley…
— Harper Lee
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When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a glancing sun-struck instance that existed now and forever. Only…
— Donna Tartt
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Contrary to the legend, Darwin's finches do not appear to have inspired his earliest theoretical views on evolution, even after he finally became an evolutionist…
— Frank Sulloway
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Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds.
— Peter R. Grant
Who Wrote These Finches Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 17 Finches Quotes as follows: