Quotes of Crow - somelinesforyou

“ In the '60s, it was Jim Crow. In the '80s it's Mr. James Crow, Esquire. ”

- Harry Edwards

“ Give people a taste of Old Crow, and tell them it's Old Crow. Then give them another taste of Old Crow, but tell them it's Jack Daniel's. Ask them which they prefer. They'll think the two drinks are quite different. They are tasting images. ”

- David Ogilvy

“ As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others. ”

- Seneca

“ Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ 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. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm. ”

- Dan Heist

“ Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow to replace a cuddly old teddy bear. ”

- Philip Howard

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

- George Eliot

“ The crow wish'd everything was black, the owl, that every thing was white. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ The eagle never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn of the crow. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship. ”

- John Lennon

“ The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg. ”

- Margaret Thatcher

“ It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. ”

- Margaret Thatcher

“ Inflation is when sitting on your nest egg doesn't give you anything to crow about. ”

- Unknown

“ A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. ”

- Juvenal

“ At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below. ”

- Theodosia Garrison

“ From the day I was born, I began to learn my lessons. I learned it is possible to be a Christian and a white southerner simultaneously; to be a gentlewoman and an arrogant callous creature in the same moment; to pray at night and ride a Jim Crow car the next morning and to feel comfortable doing both… ”

- Lillian Smith

“ The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many thing by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection! ”

- William Shakespeare
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