Seagull Quotes

Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junkmail. You can't be ready for such a thing any more than salt water taffy gets you ready for the ocean. (Daniel Handler)
Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with these gone from his thoughts, he lived a long fine life indeed. View quote
Richard Bach
Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time. View quote
Anton Chekhov
You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all. View quote
Bernard Moitessier
A moment later Jonathan's body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. "Don't let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O. K., Fletch? I'm a seagull. I like to fly, maybe... View quote
Richard Bach
Among the most graceful of birds, they have the ugliest faces; in the countenance of a seagull we observe all the bitter hatred and malignance which we usually associate with the faces of money-lenders or book censors. View quote
Robertson Davies
When seagull droppings landed on my head at a campaign event at Bowers Beach two days before Election Day, I chose to read it as a sign of a coming success. View quote
Joe Biden
When my daughter wakes up on her first morning in God's City of Zion, the sun will rise over Sierra Benida and shine upon the saints: the sun of the All-Wisdom; the sun of the Beehive, the Sego-lily, and Seagull . . . My son will understand that Egill Skallagrímsson and the Norse kings live here in Spanish Fork, but that they now have the gleam of righteousness in their eyes and have become leaders in the Stake, Seventies, and High Priests. View quote
Halldór Laxness
How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the end of a season, the end of a life? Was it so long ago it seems it might never have been? What is it in us that lives in the past and longs for the future, or lives in the future and longs for the past? (from "No Words Can Describe It") View quote
Mark Strand
If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' (Bertrand Piccard)