Bird Superstitions
A Dozen Bird Superstitions and a Few Bird Quotes
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Superstitions are the beliefs and rituals that are followed by mankind from very ancient times. Many are notions that do not have any valid reason or knowledge. Some are known as irrational beliefs; superstitions have always ruled our lives in some ways or the other.
There are various kinds of superstitions regarding animals, home, hair, nails, door windows, marriages, births, deaths, lucky charms and nature etc. There are many superstitions that center on the different kinds of birds.
There are various superstitions related to the species called birds. One of the very ancient beliefs is that a bird flying into the house means a death in the family very soon. This happens only in the case of white birds.
Some people believe that the call of a bird from the south means it is good for the crops and a bird call from the northern direction means tragedy while from the west, a bird call means good luck and the eastern bird call signifies good love. People from Ireland say that a bird doing poo poo on the car means good luck for the car’s owner. This is also said if the bird craps on your head.
Blackbirds
In many parts of the world, it is said that if two male blackbirds sit together, it signifies a good omen. A blackbird building its nest in the house means that the house will see good fortune the whole year round.
Crows
There are many superstitions relating to crows as well. It is said that the cawing of a crow early morning means the arrival of a guest in the house. Seeing one crow brings bad luck and two crows mean good luck. The sight of three crows means health whereas seeing four crows means getting wealth. In the same way five crows together seen brings illness and the glimpse of six crows indicates a death in the family.
I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases. ~ by Harry S. Truman
Cuckoo
The cuckoo is a very lucky bird in Britain. There is a belief in England that when you hear the first call of the cuckoo, the health condition that you are undergoing at that particular time will remain the same the whole year. It means if someone is ill, he will remain so for the whole year. It is even said that a wish made on haring the first call of the cuckoo always turns out to be true.
“In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!” Simone Weil
Dove
The dove is the messenger of the love God, Venus and it is said that it is the only animal that the devil cannot transform into. Only the miners think it to be an ill omen to see a dove before going underground for mining. They avoid doing so after seeing a dove.
“How come the dove gets to be the peace symbol? How about the pillow? It has more feathers than the dove, and it doesn’t have that dangerous beak” Jack Handy
Ducks and Geese
The hissing and quacking of a duck or geese is a prediction that wind and rain is on the way. The duck that lays dun-colored eggs should be killed immediately as they are ill omens. Much legend says that the geese are silly birds and their flying over the house means the approach of death in the family.
“Ducking for apples – change one letter and it’s the story of my life.” Dorothy Parker
Jackdaw
The jackdaw bird is a combination of both good and bad fortune. A single bird perching on the wall of the house means misfortune whereas a whole group doing so means the arrival of good fortune in the house.
An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of money, and hide them in a hole, which a cat observing, asked, “Why he would hoard up those round shining things that he could make no use of?” “Why,” said the jackdaw, “my master has a whole chestfull, and makes no more use of them that I do.” ~ by Jonathan Swift
Jaybird
The jaybirds are known to be the reporters of the Devil because they are said to report all the bad things to the Devil which took place in the whole week.
There are so many things to learn and it’s not just a source of amusement, but it is sometimes hilarious. Not too long ago they brought in this woman who was about 70 and she was naked as a jaybird out directing traffic on I-65. ~ by Bill Robinson
Kingfisher
The kingfisher is a good luck charm for everyone.
After the kingfisher’s wing Has answered light to light, and is silent, the light is still At the still point of the turning world. ~ TS Eliot
And on the lighter side …if you like beer or girls
Kingfisher Sexy Calendar Models are the girls featured in the annual Kingfisher Calendar, which is published by Kingfisher breweries. Kingfisher is the most popular beer in India with a 36% market share in the country.
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Why do birds sing in the morning?
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Why do birds sing in the morning? It’s the triumphant shout: “We got through another night!”
An Enid Bagnold Quote
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Some Famous Bird Quotes
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Why do birds sing in the morning? It’s the triumphant shout: “We got through another night!”
Enid Bagnold
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Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.
John Benfield
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The birds are moulting. If only man could moult also – his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.
James Allen
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Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue.
Dilbert – Character created by Scott Adams.
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No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake
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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry
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The state bird of New York is the Jaywalk.
Archie Bulger
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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Robert Lynd
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The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.
Andy Warhol
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Use the talents you possess – for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best.
Henry Van Dyke
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Birds are taken with pipes that imitate their own voices, and men with those sayings that are most agreeable to their own opinions.
Samuel Butler
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God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
Jacques Deval
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Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Martin H. Fischer
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It’s a good thing we have gravity, or else when birds died they’d just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused.
Steven Wright
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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.
Rachel Carson
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You know that if I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates or envies him, or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered and he can eat anything.
William Faulkner
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If I could come back as anything – I’d be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
Nikki Giovanni
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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird . . . So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing – that’s what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Richard P. Feynman
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I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character . . . like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy . . . the turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.
Benjamin Franklin
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Be like the bird in flight . . . pausing a while on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, yet sings knowing yet, that she has wings.
Victor Marie Hugo
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Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
Henrik Ibsen
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Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ostrich, n.: A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe in which so many pious naturalists have seen a conspicuous evidence of design. The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.
Ambrose Bierce
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God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
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Turkey, n. A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. Incidentally, it is pretty good eating.
Ambrose Bierce
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Growing up, my Mom always claimed to feel bad when a bird would slam head-first into our living room window. If she “really” felt bad, though, she’d have moved the bird feeder outside.
Rich Johnson
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Carl Sandburg
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If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar, and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
Olive Schreiner
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Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.
James Stephens
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Bird watching is a bloodless expression of manÕs primitive hunting instincts. We have substituted binoculars and cameras for the gun, but we still seek a trophy – A new species on a life list, or photographs of one of earthÕs rarest and most exquisite creatures. Our search may take us no farther than a nearby meadow – Or it can lead to the cloud forests of tropical mountains.
James A. Kern
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If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khrushchev
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Her beauty was sold For an old man’s gold, She’s a bird in a gilded cage.
Arthur J. Lamb
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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Harper Lee
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“What kind of bird are you, if you can’t fly?” said he. To this the duck replied, “What kind of bird are you if you can’t swim?” and dived into the pond.
Sergei Prokofiev
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
Chinese Proverb
Take Fate by the Throat
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A statesman is an easy man, He tells his lies by rote; A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat; So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote.
William Butler Yeats
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Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Martin H. Fischer
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He was the mildest manner’d man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.
Lord Byron
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I resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake the living out of her.
Louisa May Alcott
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The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat With an indolent expression and an undulating throat – Like an unsuccessful literary man.
Hilaire Belloc
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You need that guy like a giraffe needs a strep throat.
Ann Landers
Unusual Peacock Gifts
Some India Quotes
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To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.
Rudolf Otto
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This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India and China will take good-paying jobs that should be ours.
Harry Reid
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They didn’t even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven’s sakes in India.
Kate Clinton
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The wealth of a nation consists not in its mass of material things, but in its system. The natural resources of South America are not inferior to those of the United States, but the wealth of the two regions is vastly different. The land of India is far richer than that of Japan, but the comparative wealth of the two nations is reversed.
George Brockway
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India is a geographical term. It is no more a United Nation than the Equator.
Winston Churchill
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American workers won’t be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.
Andy Stern
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To balance China, the democracies will need new friends – and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.
David Frum
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A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.
Maurice Jarre
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Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development.
Maurice Strong
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There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
Indira Gandhi
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it’s that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Mohandas Gandhi
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The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.
Roland Joffe
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China and India will, separately and together, unleash an explosion of demand.
Mukesh Ambani
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
B. R. Ambedkar
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Because if you don’t have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you’re not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries.
Meg Whitman
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Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.
J. Milton Hayes
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Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can’t escape it.
Shahrukh Khan
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Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.
Gordon Brown
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Europe is merely powerful; India is beautiful.
Savitri Devi
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Few service industries are designed to be 24×7 in India, and thus there was no 24×7 mentality.
Sanjay Kumar
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Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.
Bobby Jindal
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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
Rajiv Gandhi
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Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence.
Paul Robeson
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Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I’ve been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.
Bianca Jagger
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Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.
Stafford Cripps
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I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development.
Li Peng
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I have a high degree of confidence about India’s growth potential in IT.
Sanjay Kumar
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I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments.
Richard Cobden
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India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
Hu Shih
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I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.
James Cameron
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I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.
Goldie Hawn
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
Manmohan Singh
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I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.
Thomas Friedman
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Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
James Broughton
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I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic.
Leslie Caron
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In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.
Roland Joffe
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In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.
Peter Mandelson
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I’ve always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.
Rachel Weisz
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If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
Romain Rolland
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Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Mohandas Gandhi
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
Abdul Kalam
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We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.
Abdul Kalam
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When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them.
Gordon Sinclair
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We’re living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it’s run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.
Deepak Chopra
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.
Sri Aurobindo
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Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India.
Ismail Merchant
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When I die India will be found engraved on my heart.
Queen Mary
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We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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We regard those other cultures, such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1,000 or 2,000 years ago, as undeveloped.
Arthur Erickson
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Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
Abdul Kalam
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Pink is the navy blue of India.
Diana Vreeland
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India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.
Anita Desai
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Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
Abdul Kalam
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It’s easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
Winston Churchill
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Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today’s crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.
Aishwarya Rai
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
Sri Aurobindo
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My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.
Julie Christie
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India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It’s the reverse of the West.
Gary Wright
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Is the foolish dog, bark at the flying bird
A Bob Marley quotation
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The word goose (plural: geese) is the English name for a considerable number of birds, belonging to the family Anatidae. This family also includes swans, most of which are larger than true geese, and ducks, which are smaller.
The term goose applies to the female in particular. The word gander is used for a male in particular. Young birds before fledging are called goslings. A group of geese on the ground is called a gaggle; when geese fly in formation they are called a wedge or a skein.
Geese are monogamous, living in permanent pairs throughout the year; however, unlike most other permanently monogamous animals, they are territorial only during the short nesting season.
A number of other waterbirds, mostly related to the shelducks, have “goose” as part of their name.
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Gooney Bird Quotes
Gooney Bird Quotes and More
Douglas C47A Skytrain nicknamed Gooney Bird
Gooney Bird Quotes*
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I’m the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I’m doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.
- Jimmy Piersall
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You pointy heads has no more idea of traffic control, than a gooney bird!!
- Clifton James
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I wish I was there, gooney bird. – When are you coming home?
- Three Kings (1999 movie)
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I gotta go, gooney bird! I love you!
- Three Kings (1999 movie)
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Gooney Bird Movie / Book / Poem / Joke
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Backyard Gooney Bird (2010 Movie)
In 2003, aircraft engineer Peter Hanbury fulfilled his dream of owning a plane when he bought an old Douglas DC-3 airliner, also known as Gooney Bird.
Backyard Gooney Bird is not only the story of the old DC-3, but more the story of dreamer and inventor Peter Hanbury.
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Gooney Bird Greene (book)
Two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry introduces a new girl in class who loves being the center of attention and tells the most entertaining “absolutely true” stories.
There’s never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School. What other new kid comes to school wearing pajamas and cowboy boots one day and a polka-dot t-shirt and tutu on another? Gooney Bird has to sit right smack in the middle of the class because she likes to be in the middle of everything. She is the star of story time and keeps her teacher and classmates on the edge of their seats with her “absolutely true” stories. But what about her classmates? Do they have stories good enough to share?
Category: Juvenile Fiction – Humorous Stories / Kids Book for Ages 7-10 years
- Lois Lowry
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Gooney Bird and the Room Mother (book)
Gooney Bird Greene likes to be right smack in the middle of everything. That’s why she wants to have the lead role of Squanto in her class Thanksgiving pageant. But that role will go to whoever finds someone to be the room mother. All the parents are so busy, no one can bring cupcakes to the play. Gooney Bird Greene to the rescue! She finds a room mother alright, but promises not to tell who it is until the day of the play. Now the kids are really busy getting ready for the show. But will the mystery room mother really show up?
Category: Juvenile Fiction – Humorous Stories
- Lois Lowry
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TRIBUTE TO THE DC-3 (Poem)
In fifty-one they tried to ground the noble DC-3
And some lawyers brought the case before the C.A.B.
The board examined all the facts behind their great oak portal
And pronounced these simple words “The Gooney Birds Immortal”
The Army toast their Sky Train in lousy scotch and soda
The Tommies raise their glasses high to cheer their old Dakota
Some claim the C-47′s best, or the gallant R4D
Forget that claim, their all the same, they’re the noble DC-3.
Douglas built the ship to last, but nobody expected
This crazy heap would fly and fly, no matter how they wrecked it
While nations fall and men retire, and jets go obsolete
The Gooney Bird flies on and on at eleven thousand feet.
No matter what they do to her the Gooney Bird still flies
One crippled plane was fitted out with one wing half the size
She hunched her shoulders then took off (I know this makes you laugh)
One wing askew, and yet she flew, the DC-3 and a half.
She had her faults, but after all, who’s perfect in every sphere?
Her heating system was a gem we loved her for her gear
Of course the windows leaked a bit when the rain came pouring down
She’d keep you warm, but in a storm, it’s possible you’d drown.
Well now she flies the feeder lines and carries all the freight
She’s just an airborne office, a flying twelve ton crate
The patched her up with masking tape, with paper clips and strings
And still she flies, she never dies, Methuselah with wings.
- author unknown
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Gooney Bird (joke)
After many years of marriage, a husband has turned into a couch potato, became completely inattentive to his wife and sat guzzling beer and watching TV all day. The wife was dismayed because no matter what she did to attract the husband’s attention, he’d just shrug her off with some bored comment.
This went on for many months and the wife was going crazy with boredom. Then one day at a pet store, the wife saw this big, ugly, snorting bird with a hairy chest, powerful hairy forearms, beady eyes and dribble running down the side of its mouth.
The shopkeeper, observing her fascination with the bird, told her it was a special imported “Goony bird” and it had a very peculiar trait. To demonstrate, he exclaimed, “Goony bird! The table!”
Immediately, the Goony bird flew off its perch and with single-minded fury attacked the table and smashed it into a hundred little pieces with its powerful forearms and claws! To demonstrate some more, the shopkeeper said, “Goony bird! The shelf!”
Again the Goony bird turned to the shelf and demolished it in seconds.
“Wow!” said the wife, “If this doesn’t attract my husband’s attention, nothing will!” So she bought the bird and took it home.
When she entered the house, the husband was, as usual, sprawled on the sofa guzzling beer and watching the game. “Honey!” she exclaimed, “I’ve got a surprise for you! A Goony bird!”
The husband, in his usual bored tone replied, “Goony Bird, my foot!”
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Chicken Quotes
Chicken Quotes from Chicken Little
Sussex Rooster - This is a grown male chicken
Sussex Rooster
A rooster, also known as a cockerel, or a cock is a male chicken (Gallus gallus) with the female being called a hen. Immature male chickens of less than a year’s age are called cockerels. The oldest term is “cock,” from Old English coc. The term “rooster” originates from the United States, while in the United Kingdom and Ireland the older term “cockerel” is more widely used.
“Cock” is in general use as the name for a male of other species of bird, for example “Cock sparrow.” “Roosting” is the action of perching aloft to sleep at night, and is done by both sexes.
The rooster is often portrayed as crowing at the break of dawn and will almost always start crowing before 4 months of age. He can often be seen sitting on fence posts or other objects, where he crows to proclaim his territory. However, this idea is more romantic than real, as a rooster can and will crow at any time of the day.
Roosters will occasionally make a patterned series of clucks to attract hens to a source of food, the same way a mother hen does for her chicks.
A capon is a castrated rooster. In the caponization procedure, the bird’s testes are completely removed; a surgical procedure is required for this as the rooster’s sexual organs are internal. Caponization also affects the disposition of the bird. Removal of the bird’s testes eliminates the male sex hormones, lessening the male sex instincts and changing their behaviour: the birds become more docile and less active and tend not to fight.
Definition
chick·en
[chik-uhn]
–noun
1.
a domestic fowl, Gallus domesticus, descended from various jungle fowl of southeastern Asia and developed in a number of breeds for its flesh, eggs, and feathers.
2.
the young of this bird, esp. when less than a year old.
3.
the flesh of the chicken, esp. of the young bird, used as food.
World English Dictionary
chicken
— n
1. a domestic fowl bred for its flesh or eggs, esp a young one
2. the flesh of such a bird used for food
3. any of various similar birds, such as a prairie chicken
Chicken Quotes
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A crane standing amidst a flock of chickens
- Chinese Proverb
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All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.
- Shannen Doherty
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An author in a Trappist monastery is like a duck in a chicken coop. And he would give anything in the world to be a chicken instead of a duck.
- Thomas Merton
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An overcrowded chicken farm produce fewer eggs.
- Chinese Proverb
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Are we to have a church in which everyone’s judgment is equal to everyone else’s? That’s not a church, it’s chaos. Common sense dictates that you keep the fox out of the chicken coop.
- Author unknown
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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets
- Henry Ford
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Chicken one day, feathers the next
- Author unknown
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Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
- Ian Hacking
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Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul – chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth!
- Anne Tyler
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Fail to steal the chicken while it ate up your bait grain.
- Chinese Proverb
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HAM AND EGGS – A day’s work for a chicken; A lifetime commitment for a pig.
- Author unknown
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday
- Author unknown
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If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he’s gotta get greasy.
- Author unknown
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If I didn’t start painting, I would have raised chickens. – William Lyon Phelps
If I hadn’t started painting, I would have raised chickens. – Author unknown
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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we’ll all be plucking chickens for a living.
- H Ross Perot
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If you know somethin’ well, you can always paint it [but] people would be better off buyin’ chickens.
- Anna Mary Robertson Moses
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In Pakistan anti-American protesters set a Kentucky Fried chicken restaurant on fire. The protesters mistakenly thought they were attacking high-ranking U.S. military official Colonel Sanders.
- Author unknown
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Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it’s tuna, but it says ‘Chicken by the Sea.
- Jessica Simpson
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