Parrots Quotes

95 Parrots quotes by 79 unique authors

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation… — Joseph Conrad
[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord' all the time;… — Swami Vivekananda
I'm going back to my parrot head friends. — Jimmy Buffett
In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of… — William Cowper
Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’ takes an attitude… — Theodore Roosevelt
Out of the sky, the birds, the parrots, the bells, silk, cloth, and drums, out of Sundays dancing, children's words and love words, out of… — Aime Cesaire
The papers are portraying Rafa as a parrot, just like they did when they showed Graham Taylor as an onion — Bobby Gould
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip. — Billy Graham
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking… — Joseph Conrad
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a… — Marie Corelli
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. — Emily Dickinson
Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea… — Salma Hayek
Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder. — Neil Innes
Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've… — Steve Irwin
The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am. — Steve Irwin
Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats… — Ingrid Newkirk
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. — Will Rogers
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that… — Mark Twain
I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot. — Stella Gibbons
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. — Winston Churchill
A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage. — Sylvia Plath
What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a… — C.S. Lewis
This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a… — Graham Chapman
The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely… — Jon Katz

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