Beaks Quotes

• A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hens, Pens

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• On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific distinction, and it features conspicuously both in attacking behaviour, when the birds face each other and grip beaks, and also in courtship, when food is passed from the beak of the male to the beak of the female. Hence though the beak differences are primarily correlated with differences in food, secondarily they serve as specific recognition marks, and the birds have evolved behaviour patterns to this end.

  David Lack

  Character, Science, Differences

  David Lack (1947). “Darwin's Finches”, p.54, CUP Archive

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• No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you weep for pain. The kite is pursued by the crows so long as it carries the fish in its beak, it twists and turns in the sky trying to last and it drops the fish. That moment it is free. So give up the attachment to the senses; then grief and worry can harass you no more.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Giving Up, Pain, Grief

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Sep 07, 2016

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• I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

  David Almond

  Song, Bird, Tree

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• People are like birds - from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes.

  Richard J. Needham

  Beautiful, Distance, Eye

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• Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Tree, Woodpeckers, Dull

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• It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!

  Joey Santiago

  Waiting, Red Lipstick, Lines

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• You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.

  Paul Kantner

  Land, Guy, Over You

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• A wonderful bird is a pelican,
  His bill will hold more than his belican.
  He can take in his beak
  Food enough for a week;
  But I'm damned if I see how the helican.

  Dixon Lanier Merritt

  Animal, Bird, Cooking

  "The Pelican". Poem by Dixon Lanier Merritt, 1910.

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• Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Real, Real Love, Claws

  Simone De Beauvoir (2013). “The Woman Destroyed”, p.83, Pantheon

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• In the street, your mouth's a beak, big like a bird, and your future's bleak.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Reality, Bird, Mouths

  Song: No Respect

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

  Amy Lowell

  Hate, Skulls, Descending

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• Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heart, Doors, Ravens

  "The Raven" l. 101 (1845)

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• I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?'

  Matt Lauer

  Love You, Past, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. May 1994.

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• My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.

  Brett Hull

  Sports, Running, Couple

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• ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, Latin, America

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2504, Delphi Classics

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• For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Heart, Past

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• Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Lovely, Robins, World

  Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.52, GENERAL PRESS

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• Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Bird, Fool, Easy

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Despair”, p.104, Penguin UK

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• The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Wall, Ivy, Lovely

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.48, Penguin

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• Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.

  Umberto Eco

  Beautiful, Eagles, Elephants

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• On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eagles, Tree, Solitude

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.133, Penguin

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• The conditions of a solitary bird are five: The first, that it flies to the highest point; The Second, that it does not suffer for company, not even of its own kind; The Third, that it aims its beak to the skies; The Fourth, that it does not have a definite color; The Fifth, that it sings very softly.

  John of the Cross

  Color, Sky, Bird

  Saint John of the Cross, Antonio T. de Nicolas (1996). “San Juan de la Cruz”, p.34, Weiser Books

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• A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in battle, in love, with torn feathers and a busted leg and a chipped beak and one of its eyes half closed; and yet a bird of deeper loveliness for all of that.

  Jeff Noon

  Eye, Long, Bird

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• Thou shalt not kill: the four most important, and yet, most ignored words in all religious teachings. There is not an asterisk next to that commandment saying, “Unless you walk on all four and have fur, feathers, horns, beaks or gills.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Religious, Teaching, Important

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