Crow Quotes

Crow Quote of the day

If you want to fly with the eagles you can't hang out with the crows.

Intellectual is a parrot; wise man is a crow. One is repetitive; other is creative!

My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar.

Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

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.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive

A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.

The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.

So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.

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

If two people are meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart.

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.

Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!

Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.

It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.

Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.

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.

Union in privacy (with one's wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.

A person becomes great not be sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. Can a crow become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building?

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.

To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.

So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.

Only brooms Know the devil Still exists, That the snow grows whiter After a crow has flown over it

Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.

In many traditions, crows are messengers and close attention is paid to their actions.

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.

I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.

Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did, now that’s a fact.

The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.

Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.

It can't rain all the time.

Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.

I wouldn't vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow laws.

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.

The crow does not hide its prey, but calls for others to share it; So wealth will be with those of a like disposition.

The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.

So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.

You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.

One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.

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.

Crows follow me wherever I go.

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.

Then, early, early, early in the morning-just as in countless Disney films-I heard a rooster crow. But guess what? They don't do it just once.