“ When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. ”
- James Whitcomb Riley- Copy
- 3.1K
“ 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- Copy
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“ If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck. ”
- Michelle Pfeiffer- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Never back away from a challenge if it's something you want really want to do. Duck it, and it will haunt you the rest of your life. ”
- Harvey Mackay’s dad- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout Bang! ”
- George Will- Copy
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“ I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him. ”
- Emo Philips- Copy
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“ The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc. ”
- C. Wright Mills- Copy
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“ He divides up this subject the way a Chinese cook divides up a duck. ”
- John McCarthy- Copy
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“ Some of my favorite childhood memories are sitting in a duck blind with my father. ”
- Blanche Lincoln- Copy
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“ Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. ”
- Graham Greene- Copy
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“ God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. ”
- Jacques Deval- Copy
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“ That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy. ”
- George Foreman- Copy
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“ Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden-in all the places. ”
- Frances Hodgson Burnett- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest But may imagine how the bird was dead, Although the kite soar with unbloodied beak? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but… what we ought to avoid. ”
- Jose Ortega y Gasset- Copy
- 1K
“ Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
- 2.3K
“ That strain in Asia has caused high mortality in those birds; the birds that tested positive in Quebec and Manitoba are all healthy. ”
- Jim Clark- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. ”
- Jacob Braude- Copy
- 1.7K
“ DUCK-BILL, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
- 1.8K
“ There you stand like a duck in a thunderstorm again - aren't you ever going to understand? ”
- W.A. Mozart- Copy
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