Ostrich Quotes

32 quotes by 31 authors

We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear flat shoes like Doc Martens.… — Jo Brand
Gentlemen, as sure as I'm sitting here now, the result of continuation of a non-system, the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude, the constant rejection of any efforts… — Dianne Feinstein
A ranch hand, equivalent of the old gaucho, rides after an ostrich, swinging three-thonged and weighted baleadoras. Note how only the toe of the boot… — Luis Marden
Rock star, flier than an ostrich. — Juelz Santana
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand. — Woodrow Wilson
Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry - and found them… — Garrett P. Serviss
I don't want a team that escapes from reality and escapes from the truth. I don't want people who are always escaping, who always have… — John Chaney
I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich. — Pierre Salinger
With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort rather than challenge… — David Fricke
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him. — Thomas Malthus
We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given… — Margaret Heffernan
OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a… — Ambrose Bierce
I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me. — Lupita Nyong'o
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. — H.G. Wells
Concentrate on the wonders and joys of this life, and accept the very best which is your true heritage. It is not being an ostrich,… — Eileen Caddy
The ostrich is the only animal officially endowed with political direction. — Pierre Daninos
I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my… — D. H. Lawrence
Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the other way, to… — C.S. Lewis
Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at… — Ayn Rand
Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand. — Samuel Beckett

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