Owl Quotes
142 quotes by 106 authors
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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
— William Blake
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She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She is the rich deep beneath the sea, the buried treasure, the expression in the owl's eye, the…
— Patricia A. McKillip
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Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of…
— Karen Joy Fowler
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The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They took some honey, and plenty of money Wrapped up in a…
— Edward Lear
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If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think…
— Terry Goodkind
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What we want most is to be held...and told..that everything (everything is a funny thing, is baby milk and papa's eyes, is roaring logs on…
— Truman Capote
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I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love…
— Guy de Maupassant
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Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.
— T.H. White
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He would have told her - he would have said, it matters not if you are here or there, for I see you before me…
— Juliet Marillier
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When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as…
— A A Milne
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An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.
— William Stafford
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We were restless for ages...After a while I heard an owl hooting and calmed myself by thinking of it flying over the dark fields –…
— Dodie Smith
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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
— Alan Garner
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Death’s a funny thing. I used to think it was a big, sudden thing, like a huge owl that would swoop down out of the…
— Neil Gaiman
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I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow and to the republicrats for which they scam: one nacho, underpants…
— Matt Groening
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More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world…
— Juliet Marillier
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A legend, Kludd, is a story that you begin to feel in your gizzard and then over time it becomes true in your heart. And…
— Kathryn Lasky
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The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own…
— Georges Bataille
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Hail to St. Aegolius Our Alma Mater. Hail, our song we raise in praise of thee Long in the memory of every loyal owl Thy…
— Kathryn Lasky
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To find one's special quality One must lead a life of deep humility. To serve in this way Never question but obey Is the blessing…
— Kathryn Lasky
Who Wrote These Owl Quotes
106 authors contributed a total of 142 Owl Quotes, led by these top contributors: