Quotes of: Crow Keyword

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

William James

The crow went traveling abroad and came back just as black.

English

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Scottish

A strong chicken starts to crow the moment that it comes out of the shell.

Syrian

The chicken that crows the loudest does not always give the biggest eggs.

French

The crow was killed by the storm -- "He died by my curse," says the owl.

Indian

Cocks that crow too early will quickly find themselves in the pot.

Turkish

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

Larry Elder

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.

Sidney Blumenthal

The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.

P. J. O'Rourke

[after shooting the crow] Top Dollar: Quick impression for you: Caw! Caw! Bang! Fuck, I'm dead!

The Crow

A whistling girl and a crowing hen never came to a good end.

American

Hearing a crow with no mouth Cry in the deep Darkness of the night, I feel a longing for My father before he was born.

Crow with No Mouth

Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.

Father Crow and Other Poems

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive.

Lou Brock

I consider the law prohibiting the sharing of copies with your friend the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. It does not deserve respect.

Richard M Stallman

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.

Thomas Sowell

The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

Rand Paul

There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smiths; that's wonderful, but that doesn't represent everyone. There's a Russell Crowe... well, you know, there's a black Russell Crowe.

Michael Jai White

Blow your horn in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cockerels; bleat in a flock of goats.

Malawian

Jim Crow, moreover, was seen executing his world-renowned dance, in gingerbread.

The House of the Seven Gables