Ducks Quotes - Page 2

• The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Men, Clouds, Wind

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.17, Hamilton Books

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• When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

  Richard Cushing

  Nature, Bird, Swim

  "Quotation Finder". Book by Everett Dirksen and Herbert V. Prochnow, p. 55, 1971.

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• The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.

  Carl Sandburg

  Competition, Grease, Wheels

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• Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Swans, Ugly Duckling, Eggs

  Hans Christian Andersen (2016). “Best Fairy Tales”, p.129, Pan Macmillan

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• When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

  Douglas Coupland

  Wings, Arms, Donald Duck

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• It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

  Cat Stevens

  Stars, Important, Different

  "Feline groovy". Interview with Molloy Woodcraft, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2004.

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• For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.

  Victoria Beckham

  America, Water, Wells

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• I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.

  Robert McCloskey

  Children, Adults, World

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• Honey, I forgot to duck

  Ronald Reagan

  Honey, Politician

  1981 Said to his wife, Nancy, after being shot byJohn R Hinckley, Jr, 30 Mar. See Dempsey 261:86.

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• It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband.....but no sooner is he domesticated than he becomes polygamous, and makes nothing of owning ten or a dozen wives at a time.

  Isabella Beeton

  Husband, Regret, Food

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• In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Errors, Skills

  1997 Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. February 27, 1998.

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• He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Life, Rain, Passion

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• Does a one-legged duck swim in circles?

  Rhodri Morgan

  Circles, Swim, Doe

  "This is the week that". The Times, December 05, 1998.

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• Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

  Lucian Freud

  Skins, Recipes, Sides

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• In case you were wondering, my spirit animal is a duck billed platypus.

  Creed Bratton

  Animal, Spirit, Wonder

  Twitter post from Apr 04, 2013

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• You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.

  Alan Rudolph

  Real, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The perils of duck hunting are great- especially for the duck.

  Walter Cronkite

  Hunting, Archery, Peril

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• Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'

  George Will

  Gun, Boys, Giving

  George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone

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• I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.

  Carl Barks

  Writing, Years, World

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• If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare

  John Lithgow

  Acting, Actors, Easy

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• So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red.

  Tim Vine

  Chinese, Red, Restaurants

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• You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.

  Bubba Smith

  Sports, Book, Character

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• Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

  Orson Welles

  Election, Popularity, Politician

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• I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

  David Knopfler

  Fun, Curves, Two

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• Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

  Bono

  Kissing, Past, Rocks

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