Vulture Quotes

60 quotes by 51 authors

Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Suffering attracts fixers the way road-kills attract vultures. — Eugene H. Peterson
Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls. — Amy Lowell
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness. — Henri Frederic Amiel
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you… — Seneca the Younger
From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going — Tony Juniper
We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil… — Louis Thomas McFadden
I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn't end there. — Groucho Marx
Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and… — Edward Abbey
A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and… — Edward Abbey
Jewish history has been tragic to the Jews and no less tragic to the neighboring nations who have suffered them. Our major vice of old… — Samuel Roth
Sometimes, I must admit, I'd like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn't look right. I'd like to play for another… — Jimmy Page
Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky. — Roger Tory Peterson
I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without flapping) ascension is produced by… — Louis Pierre Mouillard
Someone said to me, "How's your rabbit food?" I said, "Fine." ... "How's your vulture food?" — Doug Graham
Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilisation than other creatures, and at the same time live by lower standards than… — H. Jay Dinshah
If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of… — Jack Handey
I decided a long time ago I would feed on the vultures until a dove came along. A pigeon. The kind of soul that didn't… — Jamie McGuire
God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture… — Herman Melville

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