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• I decided a long time ago I would feed on the vultures until a dove came along. A pigeon. The kind of soul that didn't impede on anyone; just walked around worrying about its own business, trying to get through life without pulling everyone else down. With its own needs and selfish habits. Brave. A communicator. Intelligent. Beautiful. Soft-spoken. A creature that mates for life. Unattainable until she has a reason to trust you.

  Jamie McGuire

  Beautiful, Selfish, Intelligent

  Jamie McGuire (2013). “Walking Disaster Signed Limited Edition: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Writers are as jealous as pigeons.

  Anton Chekhov

  Jealous

  Letter to I.L. Leontev, February 4, 1888.

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• My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon.

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Father, War

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• [Pigeons are] rats with wings.

  Ken Livingstone

  Wings, Rats

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• Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons.

  Jessye Norman

  Holes, Comfortable

  Jessye Norman (2014). “Stand Up Straight and Sing!”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Prayer, Sky, Heaven

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sir John Gilbert (1858). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow ... A Complete Edition, Including the Song of Hiawatha. With Illustrations by J. Gilbert, Etc”, p.73

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• I have weird aspirations. Like, I really want to kick a pigeon.

  Hannibal Buress

  Funny, Want, Comedy

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• You pigeon hole yourself by the title you give yourself.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Giving, Titles, Holes

  Source: www.themonitor.com

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• What we must do is start viewing every cow, pig, chicken, monkey, rabbit, mouse, and pigeon as our family members.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Pigs, Rabbits, Monkeys

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• You are what you choose to identify with. You have the choice. A mouse raised by pigeons.

  Lil B

  Choices, Raised, Mice

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• Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on

  Vladimir Lenin

  Tombstone, Revolutionary

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• No human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitomy of chaos and anarchy, a pigeon that whizzes around unpredictably, that sets it's claws in you, picks at your eyes.

  Patrick Süskind

  Eye, House, Goes On

  Patrick Süskind (2015). “The Pigeon”, p.11, Penguin UK

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• To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Games, Feeling Alone

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.43, Collector's Library

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• Descendants of pigeons once fed by Keats, Byron, George Sand, Chopin and many other famous lovers are still being fed, and the sudden sound when they all rise together, frightened away, is like the sound of giant sails flapping.

  Anais Nin

  Venice, Together, Sound

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• No one hit home runs the way Babe (Ruth) did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.

  Lefty Gomez

  Running, Home, Special

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• The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

  Jim Hightower

  Differences, Today, Deposits

  "Texas farm chief is on the offensive" by Keith Schneider. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1986.

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• Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

  Carl Sandburg

  Math, Numbers, Arithmetic

  Carl Sandburg, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1995). “Carl Sandburg”, p.17, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. The pigeon is perched on the branch of a tree at the edge of that ocean.It only has to open it's beak

  Leila Aboulela

  Ocean, Tree, Clay

  Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I never liked to be pigeon-holed and I never liked people to think that they know who I am. I like to keep people guessing.

  A. J. Cook

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

  Source: www.ign.com

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• One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like an infantile retard.

  Mike Tyson

  Morning, Men, Hands

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• I get really nervous if pigeons are flying around before shows. I can't stand them after one once flew in through my bathroom window and went for me while I was having a wee. That was enough. I think pigeons target me.

  Niall Horan

  Thinking, Flying, Target

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• You walk into a strip club with a wad of cash; they all flock around you. Strippers are just pigeons with tits. They go where the bread is.

  Chris Hardwick

  Cash, Clubs, Bread

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• I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls.

  Rex Stout

  Girl, Cat, Wild Life

  rex stout (1955). “three witnesses”

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• We've got stained glass windows in our house; it's those damned pigeons.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Humor, Glasses

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• Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Thinking, Issues, Never Settle

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.27, Penguin

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