Ducks Quotes - Page 4

• The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.

  Ken Follett

  Men, Devil, Foxes

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• It's a bit like a fledgeling duck, finding your flippers.

  Martin Freeman

  Findings, Bits

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• If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should do is quit being moral. Screw the rights of nature. Nature will have rights as soon as it get duties. The minute we see birds, trees, bugs, and squirrels picking up litter, giving money to charity, and keeping an eye on our kids at the park, we'll let them vote.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Kids, Eye, Squirrels

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.201, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn't what happens to you that defines your life, it is what you do with it that does.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Happiness, Mean, Order

  Laura Schlessinger (2007). “The Proper Care and Feeding of Marriage”, p.59, Dr. Laura Schlessinger

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• In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Littles, Trouble

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• I find in the domestic duck that the bones of the wing weigh less and the bones of the leg more, in proportion to the whole skeleton, than do the same bones in the wild duck; and this change may be safely attributed to the domestic duck flying much less, and walking more, than its wild parents.

  Charles Darwin

  Change, Science, Skeletons

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Origin of Species: A Variorum Text”, p.83, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• No matter how organized your ducks are, life can turn on 2 seconds. So, you can't keep on waiting. Because, if you keep on waiting, it's gone.

  Diem Brown

  Waiting, Gone, Matter

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• Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.

  Erykah Badu

  Lines, Way, Projects

  "Erykah Badu On Pyer Moss's Honest Activism". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• (Dwight Gooden) his fastball crackling , his curveball dropping as suddenly as a duck shot in the air, has begun his charge for a third straight award-winning season.

  Ira Berkow

  Baseball, Winning, Awards

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• I find a duck's opinion of me is very much influenced by whether or not I have bread.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Comedian, Bread, Opinion

  "Just For Laughs: On The Edge". 2002.

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• I love your duck with all its ducky goodness!

  Jade Puget

  Love You, Goodness

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• Disneyland's a mess. And it's not just the measles. Donald Duck has bird flu. Pocahontas has small pox. The Little Mermaid has crabs. And the Monorail? Mono.

  Bill Maher

  Bird, Mermaid, Flu

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• The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.

  Hafez

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Enough

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• For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Safety, Water

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.153, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.

  Paul Ryan

  Issues, Tough

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Quick: noise made by a dyslexic duck

  Barry Cryer

  Noise, Made, Dyslexic

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• [The kitchen] was also messy--delightfully so, thought Jane--and it didn't look as though lots of cooking went on there. There was a laptop computer on the counter with duck stickers on it, the spice cabinet was full of Ben's toy trucks, and Jane couldn't spot a cookbook anywhere. This is the kitchen of a Thinker, she decided, and promised herself that she'd never bother with cooking, either.

  Jeanne Birdsall

  Cooking, Kitchen, Laptops

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• Contrary to popular belief, the Loch Ness Monster is not a dinosaur -- it's a huge mutant duck, a top researcher claims.... Most mainstream Nessie researchers consider Gluber's duck theory to be horse feathers and are trying to blast it out of the water.

  Murphy J. Foster, Jr.

  Horse, Water, Trying

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• How can you be dour when you have a tiny duck?

  Caitlin Kittredge

  Tiny

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• Tuck in your tail, little duck.

  Suzanne Collins

  Tails, Littles

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.17, Scholastic Inc.

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• Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.

  Maeve Binchy

  Beautiful, Swans, Ugly Duckling

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• Once I saw a duck walking down the street so I went into Subway and ordered two pieces of bread, and they informed me that they could not do that, like there was some speical rule at Subway that two pieces of bread weren't allowed to touch. So the woman asked me what I wanted on the sandwich and I said I do not care, it is for a duck, and she was like oh then it's free. I was not aware that ducks eat for free at Subway. It's like give me a chicken fajita sub, but don't worry about ringing it up, it is for a duck.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Two, Giving, Worry

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• The fox often offers the duck its pond.

  Robert Jordan

  Ponds, Foxes, Offers

  "The Fires of Heaven". Book by Robert Jordan, 1993.

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• Looking at the world through the sunset in your eyes, traveling the train through clear Moroccan skies. Ducks and pigs and chickens call, animal carpet wall to wall, American ladies five-foot tall in blue. Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind, had to get away to see what we could find. Hope the days that lie ahead, bring us back to where they've led, listen not to what's been said to you. Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express? Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express, they're taking me to Marrakesh. All aboard the train, all aboard the train...

  Graham Nash

  Wall, Lying, Sunset

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