Fowl Quotes
58 quotes by 40 authors
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To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs,…
— Philip Kapleau
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We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all…
— George Eliot
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It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur…
— Noel-Antoine Pluche
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
— John Dryden
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Carbon dioxide is natural. It occurs in Earth. It is a part of the regular lifecycle of Earth. In fact, life on planet Earth can’t…
— Michele Bachmann
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All my life, I have been sickened by everything connected with meat-, fish-, and poultry eating. As a child, I saw apparently nice, kind people…
— Percy Grainger
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Adam was a super being when God created him...he had dominion over the fowls of the air which means he used to fly...well of course…
— Benny Hinn
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Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.
— Garth Nix
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Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed; and the great…
— Moby
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COMMEMORATION Blessed art Thou, O Lord who didst bring forth of water moving creatures that have life, and whales, and winged fowls: and didst bless…
— Lancelot Andrewes
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I never fancied broiling fowls; - though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully,…
— Herman Melville
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GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there…
— Ambrose Bierce
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They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as…
— D. H. Lawrence
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That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls,…
— William Butler Yeats
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Fowl never tastes as savory when you're hungry for venison.
— Lynn Flewelling
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There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bond in earth, in sea, in sky. The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls Are…
— William Shakespeare
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The inhabitants are numerous and happy... Throuhout the country the people do not kill any living creature, nor drink intoxicating liquor, they do not keep…
— Faxian
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Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.
— Woody Allen
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My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me.
— William Kamkwamba
Who Wrote These Fowl Quotes
40 authors contributed a total of 58 Fowl Quotes, led by these top contributors: