Seagull Quotes
45 quotes by 33 authors
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The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull…
— Tony Abbott
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When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
— Eric Cantona
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Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling arrival of 'tilth'…
— Alistair Cooke
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When it blows here, even the seagulls walk.
— Nick Faldo
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The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds…
— Carey Mulligan
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Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer, dead at 53. Over Barcelona today, the famed reindeer was hit by a flock of seagulls and a 747. Eyewitnesses report,…
— Colin Mochrie
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Now I'm livin' out here on the beach, but those seagulls are still out of reach.
— Neil Young
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The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me, feeding the seagulls…
— Brenda Peterson
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If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Seagulls . . . slim yachts of the element.
— Robinson Jeffers
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As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl like you She…
— Anton Chekhov
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I'm the seagull. No, that's not it. I'm an actress. That's it.
— Anton Chekhov
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One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as…
— A. S. J. Tessimond
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The conversation between Fletcher and Jonathan Livingston Seagull is centered on why some have achieved more than others . . . are they divine .…
— Richard Bach
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Birds are so much wiser than we! A robin builds a nest for robins. A seagull builds a nest for seagulls. They don't copy each…
— Dorothy Draper
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You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.
— Bernard Moitessier
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The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm - the turning of the light. The island knows…
— M. L. Stedman
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Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.
— Douglas Coupland
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The legends lie cradled in the seagulls call, and the promise they made are ground beneath the sadist's fall.
— Jethro Tull
Who Wrote These Seagull Quotes
33 authors contributed a total of 45 Seagull Quotes, led by these top contributors: