Child Quote by Michael Leunig

“There are many rhymes about magpies, but none of them is very reliable because they are not the ones that the magpies know themselves.”

— Terry Pratchett

I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.

— Kenneth Branagh

It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to…

— Megan Whalen Turner

When I was born, I was born very prematurely so I was very tiny and small. And so, my mom just nicknamed me Pixie,…

— Pixie Lott

“35. There were three women named Mary (Bitter) who walked with the Lord all the time. They were his mother, his sister and Mary…

— Joseph B. Lumpkin

“I know'd my name to be Magwitch, chrisen'd Abel. How did I know it? Much as I know'd the birds' names in the hedges…

— Charles Dickens

Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

“Magazines were new. The Gentleman’s Magazine—the first periodical called a “magazine”—appeared in London in 1731. It offered “a Monthly Collection, to treasure up, as…

— Jill Lepore

“Two things attract magpies: sparkly stuff and roadkill. This particular funeral is a jackpot for magpies.”

— Blythe Woolston

Since Mags seems to have no ill effects from the nuts, Peeta collects bunches of them and fries them by bouncing them off the…

— Suzanne Collins

In Egypt the staff was rendered as a shepherd's crook that was a symbol for the pharaohs, the Druids of Egypt. The pharaohs wore…

— Michael Tsarion

I was the youngest, and there was my mother, my father and my brother. They each had their own way of turning anything, from…

— Michael Rosen