Parrots Quotes

95 quotes by 80 authors

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist. — Thomas Carlyle
I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English. — Sandra Cisneros
We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become to us mere… — Swami Vivekananda
The middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the fox for pleasure. One cannot… — Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish — Chevy Chase
It is possible, of course, to operate with figures mechanically, just as it is possible to speak like a parrot: but that hardly deserves the… — Gottlob Frege
All the unhallowed beauty I have found; All free - discordant shrills and form-defying wonders above ground, like writhen trees with draggled foliage struggling along… — Rex Ingamells
My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a… — W. P. Kinsella
Wandering around back stage at a willie Nelson concert is a bit like being the parrot on the shoulder of the guy who's running the… — Kinky Friedman
Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of… — Swami Vivekananda
The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will… — Winston Churchill
The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does notâ€”which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making… — Carl Jung
I'm not fighting with myself. Oh, my God. That's how I am. You know, the story of the hippo? The hippo comes to the monkey… — Marat Safin
Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like… — Milan Kundera
O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living. — Fanny Fern
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds,… — Sakya Pandita
No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern… — Roger Penrose
Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot -- and some of you people. — Billy Sunday

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