“ 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- Copy
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“ They should have told him that was not a metaphor. He should've gotten back up and dove in again, like Pearl Jam. He would have gotten the young vote, the MTV vote. ”
- Bob Dole- Copy
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“ This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons pease, And utters it again when God doth please. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Wood-pigeons cooed there, stock-doves nestled there; My trees were full on songs and flowers and fruit, Their branches spread a city to the air. ”
- Christina G. Rossetti- Copy
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“ Hold, there is the very remuneration I had of thy master, thou halfpenny purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of discretion. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool. ”
- Christopher Marlowe- Copy
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“ Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column-pigeons dump on you because you're there. ”
- Peter Hall- Copy
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“ I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them. ”
- Tommy Douglas- Copy
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“ One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier. ”
- Gustave Flaubert- Copy
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“ Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon — and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body. ”
- Mildred and Victor Goertzel- Copy
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“ I'm still about as pigeon-toed as you can get. But I learned to manage pretty well on a bike. Should have had a bicycle then, when I was a kid, but our family didn't have the money for such luxuries. I saved up to buy one myself a few years later. ”
- Norman Rockwell- Copy
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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 up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it… ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
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