Quotes by category:Crow

I submit my tongue as an instrument of righteousness when I make it bless them that curse me and pray for them who persecute me, even though it "automatically" tends to strike and wound those who have wounded me. I submit my legs to God as instruments of righteousness when I engage them in physical labor as service, perhaps carrying a burden the "second mile" for someone whom I would rather let my legs kick. I submit my body to righteousness when I do my good deeds without letting them be known, though my whole frame cries out to strut and crow.

crow legs body

From the animist point of view, humans belong in a sacred place because they themselves are sacred. Not sacred in a special way, not more sacred than anything else, but merely as sacred as anything else -- as sacred as bison or salmon or crows or crickets or bears or sunflowers.

crow special views

When they're born outside, crows come and pluck their eyes out. by David Sedaris

When they're born outside, crows come and pluck their eyes out.

pluck crow eye

Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep on bleeding and change your tune, it's got no meaning.

Devendra Banhart

crow leaving grieving

As I get older, I'm more willing to take on more, I guess. I feel more comfortable kind of being different characters and kind of stretching it a little more. Like with The Visitation. At least for me, being an actor, I have to draw from human experiences, so it was kind of a stretch playing that role. Kind of supernatural... kind of like what I did in The Crow actually.

crow being-different character

That conclusion is inescapable, given the well-established evidence that voter-ID laws don't disenfranchise minorities or reduce minority voting, and in many instances enhance it, despite claims to the contrary by Mr. Holder and his allies. As more states adopt such laws, the left has railed against them with increasing fury, even invoking the specter of the Jim Crow era to describe electoral safeguards common to most nations, including in the Third World.

crow voting law

Oh, you crows! Feast away! What a spread! Soup straight from the eye sockets! And thick red sake! But don't have too much Or you'll surely get drunk.

crow drunk eye

Sisters, when about their work, should not put on clothing which would make them look like images to frighten the crows from the corn. It is more gratifying to their husbands and children to see them in a becoming, well-fitting, attire, than it can be to merely visitors or strangers.

crow husband children

September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets - Crows - and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming - An Innuendo sear That makes the Heart put up its Fun And turn Philosopher.

Emily Dickinson

crow heart fun

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.

crow eye soul

She brought me a crow's feather...," he whispered. by Erin Hunter

She brought me a crow's feather...," he whispered.

crow feathers

She stood looking carefully at the labeled portraits Ursala had put up: Little Crow, Chief of the Santees, Geronimo, last of the Apaches, and Ursala's favorite, Big Foot, dying in the snow at Wounded Knee. "Isn't that where the massacre was?" asked Ellen. "Yes. I'm going to go there when I'm grown up. To Wounded Knee." "That seems sensible," said Ellen.

crow feet snow

While it is not always profitable to analogize "fact" to "fiction," La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.

Felix Frankfurter

crow differences fiction

I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to c... by Gary Bauer

I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit.

crow credit temptation

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

crow hippie friendly

How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king? by George R. R. Martin

How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?

George R. R. Martin

crow crowns kings

Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other... by George Eliot

Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.

suspicion crow people

The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it. by George Herbert

The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it.

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She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner!" What?" She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER!" Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose.

Gregory Maguire

crow dust guests

Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as wh... by Helen Keller

Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.

crow white listening

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