Vultures Quotes
39 quotes by 34 authors
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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
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Suffering attracts fixers the way road-kills attract vultures.
— Eugene H. Peterson
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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
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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
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From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going
— Tony Juniper
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky.
— Roger Tory Peterson
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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
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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
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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
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Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's…
— Beck
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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
— Plutarch
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Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know…
— Paul Stanley
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John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of…
— Ayn Rand
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My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures…
— Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
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Here is a list of terrible things, The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings The rabid bite of the dogs of war, The voice of…
— Clive Barker
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