Carrion Quote by Laini Taylor

“The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.”

— Cormac McCarthy

Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he…

— Coleman Cox

“ In many instances, a preoccupation with appearances--unrealistic social expectations, impossible standards--can be the single largest barrier to a satisfying social life. When I…

— Jonathan Berent

“far enough up the pecking order”

— Edward W. Robertson

“Yeah, well, love doesn't always beat out the fear." "Sometimes it does," he replied with a smile, pecking her on the nose. "Christ, Driggs.…

— Gina Damico

“A strange idea was pecking at his brain like a chicken in the egg, and very, very much absorbed him.”

— Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

“No sooner were they drowsing pleasantly than the Magenpies would start the food call, one doing the hiccoughs while the other did the piping.…

— Gerald Durrell

“There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can hold only…

— Steven Pressfield

“In fact, we owe the expression “pecking order” to studies of the social relations among chickens by the Norwegian zoologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, who found…

— Jennifer Ackerman

Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.

— William Shakespeare

Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee:

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“As I did so I became suddenly and agonizingly aware of the nearness of the carrion thing, whose hideous hollow breathing I half fancied…

— H.P. Lovecraft