Cuckoos Quote by William Shakespeare

“By being seldom seen, I could not stir, But, like a comet, I was wondered at... He was but as the cuckoo is in…

— William Shakespeare

“We have a friend, and Anglophile American city-dweller in his eighties, whose main ambition, now, is to hear a cuckoo call, for he never…

— Susan Hill

The cuckoos remain silent for a long time (for several seasons) until they are able to sing sweetly (in the Spring) so as to…

— Chanakya

“They set off through the soft lingering light. One cuckoo in the depths of Layer Wood and one in the dense shrubbery of the…

— Norah Lofts

As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as…

— Carl Linnaeus

O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?

— William Wordsworth

If the cuckoo does not sing, kill it.

— Oda Nobunaga

“He began to see a kind of beauty in the strangeness of the field, too. It was quite different from what he had been…

— Walter Tevis

He was like the cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

— George Eliot

Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for taste, than…

— Immanuel Kant

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

— George Eliot

I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air, his tail…

— Willie Morris