Canary Quotes

Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf. (Anton Chekhov)
Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself. View quote
David Horowitz
That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right. View quote
Alvah Bessie
The Graf Zeppelin was the mother of all airships, 787 feet long and 115 feet high. Imagine Canary Wharf, on its side, floating over your head. View quote
Jeremy Clarkson
Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action. View quote
Susan Collins
Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her. View quote
Sarah Waters
Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come. View quote
Galway Kinnell
It was a yellow voice, a high, shrill treble in the nursery White always and high, I remember it so, White cupboard, off-white table, mugs, dolls' faces And I was four or five. The garden could have been Miles away. We were taken down to the green Asparagus beds, the cut lawn, and the smell of it Comes each summer after rain when white returns. Our bird, A canary called Peter, sang behind bars. The black and white cat Curled and snoozed by the fire and danger was far away. View quote
Elizabeth Jennings
The rabbits bow before thee, And cower in the straw; The chickens are submissive, And own thy will for law; Bullfinches and canary Thy bidding do obey; And e'en the tortoise in its shell Doth never say thee nay. View quote
Lewis Carroll
When you see a tomcat with his whiskers full of feathers, do not say "Canary!" - he'll take offense. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
I think the canary left some feathers in there after you ate it. (Ally Carter)
We went to Denmark twice and Germany and also to the Canary Isles one year. I remember once when we were playing Dresden in Germany. View quote
Dixie Dean
Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to think about it as a global public good. Because in a sense, measles is the canary in the coal mine for immunization. It is, you know, highly transmissible. The vaccine costs 15 cents, so it's not - you know, shouldn't be an issue in terms of cost. View quote
Seth Berkley
My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands. View quote
Jason Statham
If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti. View quote
Paul Farmer
The original of the yellow rose is clad (you've guessed it) in canary yellow. The lemon-meringue confection has been poured into yellow slacks and yellow shirt, an immaculate yellow-blonde barbie-doll with 'EFG- Follies-Girl' written all over her. View quote
Jani Allan
Being born on the banks of the Bosphorus, I'm Byzantine by nationality, but French by education, German by training, Spanish by choice, Catalan at heart, fron the Canary Isles sometimes, and now becoming someone from Barranquilla by adoption and affection. View quote
Alberto Assa
I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
The fields are sufficiently full of tares, vetches, clover-grass, hop-clover, sanfoil, ray-grass, trefoil, cinquefoil, hops, wood, flax, hemp, rape-seed, lucern, Dantzick flax, canary seed, mustard seed, &c. View quote
Edward Chamberlayne