The Crow Quotes

Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.

A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.

When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves!

You can be a flower in somebody's garden or a pig or the sunshine or a crow or a nightingale! Be something nice in someone else's garden.

It's just that only now are women coming around, and when someone as striking as Alanis or Sheryl Crow comes out, the public just needs something to compare it to.

I would hope that wherever Sheryl Crow, Paula Cole, and Fiona get played is where I'd be played. And right now that seems to be the modern Adult Contemporary market.

Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy.

When I was awarded a fellowship in poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts (for "Alphabets"), I felt myself suddenly (vaingloriously) equal to my Crow, which would be - I knew at once - Rat.

We did a really cool video for this song [Milquetoast] with Alex Winter from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure fame. He's an extremely intelligent guy. Butch Vig also did a mix for The Crow movie.

The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread.

Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop.

Which is bigger? A baby eagle or a giant crow?

Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive presence. I figure them differently.

In the poem "C," the crows are associated with cancer, because I had suffered a cancer scare.

The crows that are predatory are something you have to deal with. For me, they also become associated with cancer cells.

The crows live in the world like you do. They are part of nature.

Holy crow!" ~Bella Swan

Do you recall the story of the young Yogi in the Mahâbhârata who prided himself on his psychic powers by burning the bodies of a crow and crane by his intense will, produced by anger?

The light comes brighter from the east; the cawOf restive crows is sharper on the ear.

If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.

Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls, When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops. He mocks the guinea, challenges The crow, inciting various modes. The sparrow requites one, without intent.

It's a matter of how the bullpen looks as to whether Bell goes in there or Crow goes in there. Bell won't be ready for a start for another 10 days.

Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.

If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.

A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.

Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses.

What are you doing to me?” he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. “I can’t fly!” You’re flying right now. “I’m falling!” Every flight begins with a fall, the crow said.

Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is).

The rain fell like dead bullets.

Nothing is unreal as long as you can imagine like a crow

Trial and error” is not bad, but not the best. If you don’t know where the crowd is going, don’t follow it. Get set.

Black hawk down.Black eagle up.

I want to be a guileless rook to discolor the blackness of all crafty human hearts

I was practically The Boy in the Bubble

Jim Crow, moreover, was seen executing his world-renowned dance, in gingerbread.

Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.

A poem without metaphor is a gelding

Nobody has ever looked at me the way he’s looking at me at this moment. Like I’m his possession. Like if anyone else were to touch me, he’d break both their legs and an arm for good measure.

I’m not a serpent, Father. I’m a crow.

Who ever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.