Parakeets Quotes

• Above the forest of the parakeets,
  A parakeet of parakeets prevails,
  A pip of life amid a mort of tails.

  Wallace Stevens

  Tails, Forests

  Wallace Stevens (2012). “The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

  Janet Fitch

  Prayer, Eye, Orange

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.222, Hachette UK

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• I read, for the first time, of the Carolina Parakeet-a North American parakeet whose green, yellow and reddish-orange plumage appeared vivacious and altogether quite wonderful. As stunning as I found the hawk-chased conures, this bird astounded me even more. That the Carolina Parakeet was extinct simply added to my amazement.

  Christopher Cokinos

  Yellow, Orange, Bird

  Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin

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• My ex-girlfriend owned a parakeet…oh my god, that f**king thing would never shut up. But the bird was cool.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Girlfriend, Kings, Bird

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• You might be a redneck if your parakeet knows the phrase Open up, Police!

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Police, Phrases

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• That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet. The more I spoke of the bird, the more it seemed that, somehow, its existence had been a chimera. Admittedly, my survey was small and unscientific, but intelligent people who could reel off the names of various dinosaurs and identify sparrows at epic distances could not name the forgotten parakeet. I realized, forcefully, what I suppose I knew abstractly: Histories, like species, can go extinct.

  Christopher Cokinos

  Distance, Epic, Intelligent

  Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin

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• On top of all that, look at this guy? I mean he's a idiot, he's 7 feet of pure idiot. You put his brain in a parakeet... zing! It'll fly backwards.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Mean, Wrestling, Feet

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• Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Player, Tennis, Healthy

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• I had a parakeet that used to fly around the house and crash into these huge mirrors my mother put in. Ever heard of this interior design principle, that a mirror makes it seem like you have an entire other room? What kind of jerk walks up to a mirror and goes, Hey look, there's a whole other room in there. There's a guy that looks just like me in there.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Mother, Mirrors, Guy

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• How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its teeth were bad, its hair gray and unkempt. While beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

  Janet Fitch

  Prayer, Eye, Hair

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.222, Hachette UK

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• I grew up with two different parakeets - one that lived for five years, and one that lived for 13 years - so I always had a bit of an attraction to birds and it's an oddly good fit to be in a movie about birdwatchers.

  Jim Parsons

  Years, Two, Bird

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.

  Christopher Cokinos

  Forget, Environment, Species

  Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin

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• You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight birds. You just hoped they came out of the nest box looking all right. I'm like a swan at the moment. I look fine on top of the water but under the water my little legs are going mad.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Thinking, Swans

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• Tom Ridge now says we don't have to run out and put plastic sheets all over the house. Great, tell that to my dead parakeet.

  Craig Kilborn

  Running, House, Plastic

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• The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white As powder on a mummy's face, Or fawned with simian grace Round booths with many a hard bright toy And wooden brittle joy: The cap and bells of Time the Clown That, jangling, whistled down Young cherubs hidden in the guise Of every bird that flies; And star-bright masks for youth to wear, Lest any dream that fare Bright pilgrim past our ken, should see Hints of Reality.

  Edith Sitwell

  Dream, Stars, Past

  Edith Sitwell (Dame) (1949). “The canticle of the rose: poems: 1917-1949”

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