Ducks Quotes - page 2

She just took off running to the old Perkins place. He couldn't help turning to watch. She ran as though it was her nature. It reminded him of the flight of wild ducks in the autumn. So smooth. The word "beautiful" came to his mind, but he shook it away and hurried up to his house. (Katherine Paterson)

If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.

Douglas Coupland

Always do that, wild ducks do. They shoot to the bottom as deep as they can get, sir - and bite themselves fast in the tangle and seaweed - and all the devil's own mess that grows down there. And they never come up again.

Henrik Ibsen

White is the wold, and ghostly The dank and leafless trees; And 'M's and 'N's are mostly Pronounced like 'B's and 'D's: 'Neath bleak sheds, ice-encrusted, The sheep stands, mute and stolid: And ducks find out, disgusted, That all the ponds are solid.

Charles Stuart Calverley

One gets the impression of Duran is that he's a tough, rough brawler who just wades in and ducks nothing. But all you have to do is look at his face to see that is nonsense. He's not marked up. He does a lot of cute things in there.

Roberto Durán

It is ugly ducklings, grown either into swans or into remarkably big, remarkably ugly ducks, who are responsible for most works of art; and yet how few of these give a truthful account of what it was like to be an ugly duckling!-it is almost as if the grown, successful swan had repressed most of the memories of the duckling's miserable, embarrassing, magical beginnings. (The memories are deeply humiliating in two ways: they remind the adult that he was once more ignorant and gullible and emotional than he is; and they remind him that he once was, potentially, far more than he is.)

Randall Jarrell

The way we allow children to be advertised to is shocking. Eating is a learned behavior, and we've made these kids sitting ducks for all the bad messages about industrialized food. The fact that we allow that to go on is horrifying.

Ruth Reichl

If you want to fly with eagles, stop swimming with ducks.

T. Harv Eker

There are no Rabbits in the north-west. This statement, far from final, is practically true today, but I saw plenty of Lynxes, and one cannot write of ducks without mentioning water.

Ernest Thompson Seton

There are two kinds of people,' she'd said. ‘Those who coast through life like ducks in a row, following one after the other, and those who ride the waves.'” Tears spilled down my cheeks, and my voice cracked. "‘Ride the waves, baby, and live. Live.

Gena Showalter

If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare. (John Lithgow)

We had our wheat. We made our own olive oil. We made our wine. We had chickens, ducks; we had sheep, cows, milk. So I was raised in a very simple situation but understanding really food from the ground... the essence of food and the flavors. And those memories I took with me, and I think that they lingered on.

Lidia Bastianich

And I like pygmy goats, because they're just lovely, and ducks.

Richard Hammond

This object, which somewhat resembles a flight of wild ducks in shape, is a gathering of minute stars.

William Henry Smyth

The swarm of ducks so darkens the sky that poor Europe does not know which way to go.

Honore Daumier

I'm a huge lover of animals. My mother wasn't the best, but despite an abusive childhood, we always had a lot of pets growing up. I was basically raised on a farm with horses, chickens, ducks and cats. We did a lot of rescuing. At early age, I became a vegetarian. There was a lot of resistance from family - "It will stunt your growth. It can't be healthy.”.

Corey Feldman

See that officer out in front? Soon as his shadow hits that lil' spruce there, he's meetin' his maker. That's what I say. 'Nen after him, I start in on'na rest of 'em. Look at them all lined up! Waddlin' along one after the other like sittin' ducks. Poor bastards! Don't know what's about'ta hit 'em. Pretty soon you're gonna see how the Lord takes His own. Now, You lissen up up there, ol' man! If any a those fella's sinned, You take mercy on him, hear? Be quick now! They're gonna start headin' up to you soon.

Väinö Linna

Maybe we shouldn't be living this way, without grass and trees, and ducks, always under pressure, always trying to catch up, never enough time or energy for the things we love, if we can even remember what those things are.

Meg Rosoff

I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere.

Robert McCloskey

Knowledge or no knowledge, the intelligence community is obliged to furnish estimates to military planners, even if they're worthless and very possibly misleading. If you are one of those strange ducks trying to understand what this nuclear business is all about and read the "respectable” journals the CIA leaks information to, please don't get the idea this makes you a more respectable arm chair analyst than anyone else.

Samuel T. Cohen

I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic. (Anna Chancellor)

I might do my own independent film, that my husband wrote for me, if all the ducks are in a row.

Erica Durance

Go to where the ducks are. Forget the duck calls. If you go where the ducks are coming, you're going to shoot more ducks.

Jase Robertson

I've got eighteen-year-old twins that need to go to college, so there's still a financial issue, but I could retire tomorrow and just count ducks by the side of the lake, and that would be just fine by me. I'm not a high-energy guy.

Jonathan Banks

I'm sorry for the ducks; I love foie gras.

Jose Andres

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