Quotes of Crane - somelinesforyou

“ What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron? ”

- Alfred Russel Wallace

“ Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings. ”

- Mitchell Burgess

“ I studied with Robert Morss Lovett, the great professor of epic literature. Another important influence was Ronald S. Crane, a professor of aesthetics at the University of Chicago. ”

- Marguerite Young

“ Delegates crane their gaze at overhead screens. The producers, using fast-cutting close-up shots, have added the narcissistic touch of allowing delegates to watch themselves watch themselves at a convention of people watching them. ”

- Francis X. Clines

“ Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness… ”

- Henry David Thoreau
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