Cuckoos Quotes

Cuckoos Quote of the day

If the cuckoo does not sing, kill it.

Even in Kyoto/Hearing the cuckoo's cry/I long for Kyoto

The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.

The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more.

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.

The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.

Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.

This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.

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

The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.

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

The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring.

I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'

We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.

There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.

We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

I love "30 Rock" because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.

Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings; compassion, in the first instance, is good for both; I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.

Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.

The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.

I’m not a cuckoo, either. I’m a fool is what.