Leaves of grass Quote by Whitman Walt

“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”

— Walt Whitman

“Look, there's Billy Casper there wi' his pet hawk. I could shout at 'em; it's not a pet, Sir, hawks are not pets. Or…

— Barry Hines

“My father says he doesn't like hawks because they swoop down on mice and other defenseless desert creatures. He can't stand the thought of…

— Andre Agassi

I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he may have…

— Frances Osborne

“Hunting hawks did not belong in cages, no matter how much a man coveted their grace, no matter how golden the bars. They were…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Nobody who loved a hawk would be drawn to a songbird, especially not a damaged one.”

— Megan Derr

“Some things are unchangeably wild, others are stolidly tame. The tiger is wild, and the coyote, and the owl. I am tame, you are…

— Mary Oliver

“the ferret, hunting, eyes on the ground, never hears footsteps of the hawk”

— Andrew Vachss

“Nastiness devalues the speaker as well because the unwillingness to restrain the urge marks the speaker as less civilized, more animal-like.”

— Stephen L. Carter

“The guy was shrewder than he looked. I realized I had given too much credence to the scrawny body and the obvious age, and…

— Barry Eisler

“This was because the hawks and falcons in the castle mews were all Lancre birds and therefore naturally possessed of a certain “sod you”…

— Terry Pratchett

“Every bird of prey looks over its shoulder before it goes in for the kill, even a hawk. Even they know to watch their…

— Michelle Horst