Crow Quotes

• I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Dog
  • Swear

• Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Waiting
  • Destruction
  • Absence

• There are black Christians, and black Muslims in Africa who are being slaughtered, they don't want to hear about the Jim Crow laws. There are Christians, there are other Muslims being slaughtered in the Middle East, they don't need a lecture from Obama about Christianity. The fact of the matter is Obama is not doing anything effective or substantive to stop genocide in our time.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Time
  • Black
  • Stop

• In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

  

  William James
  • Black
  • Order
  • White

• I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Art
  • Home
  • Bigs

• I will make thee think thy swan a crow.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Thinking
  • Thee
  • Swans

• That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Heaven
  • Fairness

• So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Shows
  • Fellows
  • Dove

• The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Tree

• Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Up
  • Able
  • Growing Up

• The new racism, like God, works in mysterious ways and is quite effective in maintaining white privilege. For example, instead of saying as they used to say during the Jim Crow era that they do not want us as neighbors, they say things nowadays such as 'I am concerned about crime, property values and schools.'

  

  Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
  • School
  • Racism
  • Crime

• A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Book
  • Tree
  • Pool

• The government can back up its tastes and beliefs with the police power. That is why it cannot be permitted tastes and beliefs. Most emphatically, it cannot be permitted to define one group as being privileged over another group of people. It was wrong in the days of Jim Crow; it is wrong in the days of affirmative action.

  

  Charles A. Murray
  • Action
  • Police
  • Belief

• It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.

  

  Thomas More
  • Opinion
  • Natural
  • Apes

• The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • May
  • Goods
  • Hens

• The light comes brighter from the east; the cawOf restive crows is sharper on the ear.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Light
  • Ears
  • East

• Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Long
  • Dog
  • Cold

• The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.

  

  William Blake
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Crow

• We feel fortunate that we're in a position where we're looking down on the Miami Heat. Half-a-game lead. In a way, I'm surprised. And yet, we've got nothing to crow about.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Game
  • Position
  • Miami Heat

• I don’t think a crow has ever even considered the categorical imperative.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Considered
  • Imperative
  • Categorical

• The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • Running
  • Desire
  • Inspiration

• We have nothing to crow about, our home record has been atrocious, we've got a long ways to go before we feel we're on top.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Long
  • Home
  • Record

• Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with a constitutional guarantee of equality is not simply a contemplative exercise in defining the shape of a just society. It is an order

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Decision
  • Exercise
  • Crow

• Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race.

  

  Michelle Alexander
  • Slavery
  • Groups
  • Institutions

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