Pigeons Quotes

• Criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home.

  Dale Carnegie

  Communication, Home, Criticism

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.17, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Pigeons: They've got wings, but they walk a lot.

  Karl Pilkington

  Wings, Walks

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• Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Smart, Vision, Hearing

  "Mike Tyson’s Show Is a Bad Bet" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2011.

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• You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

  Claude Chabrol

  Facts, Sometimes, Accepting

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• Look at all these pigeons, think they can just trust us humans? You can't trust us humans!

  The Rev

  Thinking, Looks, Humans

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• One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon.

  Diane Sawyer

  One Day, Statues

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• I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different.

  Lil Wayne

  Ocean, Swimming, Sky

  Song: Sky Is Tha Limit, Album: Da Drought 3

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• I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, People

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• The only thing I'm afraid of is a life without you, Pigeon.

  Jamie McGuire

  Fear, Without You

  Jamie McGuire (2013). “Walking Disaster”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• A homing pigeon must love her home; otherwise she will not wish to return to it.

  Meir Shalev

  Home, Wish, Return

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• I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I had only to wish and call her and she would come flying to me. I loved that pigeon as a man loves a women, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.

  Nikola Tesla

  Beautiful, Men, Light

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• I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.

  Matthew Shipp

  People, Able

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• If pigs had wings, they would be pigeons.

  W. C. Fields

  Pigs, Wings, Would Be

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• One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.

  Mel Brooks

  One Day, Rabbits, Lambs

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• Retain a calm heart, sit like a turtle, walk swiftly like a pigeon, and sleep like a dog

  Li Ching-Yuen

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

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• Don't be a pigeon if you were born to be an eagle. Experience God's altitude for your life.

  Myles Munroe

  Eagles, Born, Ifs

  Myles Munroe (2011). “Maximizing Your Potential Expanded Edition: The Keys to Dying Empty”, p.25, Destiny Image Publishers

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• I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

  Tommy Douglas

  Mind, Want, Building

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.

  David Attenborough

  Country, Travel, Mean

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• It is so beautifully ironic that St. Francis - the great lover of animals - is now a pigeon's target in countless yards.

  Mark Hart

  Animal, Great Love, Ironic

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.15, Franciscan Media

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• I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Littles

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• Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Cities, Facts, Wildlife

  "Mike Tyson’s Show Is a Bad Bet" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2011.

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• At evening casual flocks of pigeons make
  Ambiguous undulations as they sink
  Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

  Wallace Stevens

  Wings, Poetry, Darkness

  'Sunday Morning, I' (1923)

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• Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.

  May Sarton

  Flight, Destination

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• Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Animal

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• If there were any justice in this world, people would occasionally be permitted to fly over pigeons.

  Gene Brown

  People, Justice, World

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