Vulture Quotes

Vulture Quote of the day

At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.

Teach the student what needs to be taught. 'Cause black and white kids both take shorts When one doesn't know about the other one's culture, Ignorance swoops down like a vulture.

Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilization than other creatures and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena.

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn't end there.

‎"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.

Prometheus, I have no Titan's might, Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart, For daytime's vulture talons tear apart The tender alcoves built by love at night.

Do you blame a vulture for perching over a carcass?

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.

Elvis is bound to be dead. Look at all the vultures in his vicinity.

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!

Women are one and all a set of vultures.

If you ask my dad for help... he'll help. Like a vulture helps an over-run armadillo on a Texas highway. One peck at the time.

He groaned slightly and winced like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.

I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.

The hardest animal was the vulture. But the horses were great, the dog was great [in Valley of Violence]. It was really easy.

Someone said to me, "How's your rabbit food?" I said, "Fine." ... "How's your vulture food?"

Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.

A giant vulture with a girl hanging from its feet tends to attract attention.

Change is constant, but no amount of change will turn the attitude of vulture to that of eagle.

Boredom looms over the liveliest lessons, seeking to destroy.

I want you to be my black vulture:forever monogamous!