Crow Quotes

The crow wished everything was black, the owl, that every thing was white. (William Blake)
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing. View quote
Muhammad Ali
The eagle never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn of the crow. View quote
William Blake
The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. View quote
Robert Frost
It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow. View quote
Jean Chrétien
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep on bleeding and change your tune, it's got no meaning. View quote
Devendra Banhart
The crow does not hide its prey, but calls for others to share it; So wealth will be with those of a like disposition. View quote
Thiruvalluvar
There is a bird who by his coat,And by the hoarseness of his note,Might be supposed a crow. View quote
William Cowper
She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere . . . View quote
Anthony Trollope
My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know. (James Russell Lowell)
Before people crow about the absence of Weapons of Mass Destruction, I suggest they wait a bit. View quote
Tony Blair
The Drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candlesticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense nor myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on its roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly. View quote
Sean O`Casey
So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream. View quote
James O'Barr
Recently I heard Sheryl Crow and I loved her, she was terrific. View quote
Bobby Sherman
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high. View quote
George Catlin
If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. View quote
Jon Meacham
I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot. View quote
Kathie Lee Gifford
It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book. View quote
Sidney Blumenthal
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. View quote
Tom Brown, Jr.
I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases. (Harry S. Truman)
A distance "as the crow flies” is significant only to crows. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
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. View quote
William James
And now, at half-past ten o'clock, I hear the cockerels crow in Hubbard's barns, and morning is already anticipated. It is the feathered, wakeful thought in us that anticipates the following day. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
An egotist is like a cock who thinks the sun has risen to hear him crow. View quote
George Eliot