We hear the cuckoo’s voice; Then sweet songs of the turtle dove and finch are heard. Soft breezes stir the air. — Antonio Vivaldi
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble. — Roger Tory Peterson
Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for. — Tennessee Williams
My ex-girlfriend owned a parakeet…oh my god, that f**king thing would never shut up. But the bird was cool. — Anthony Jeselnik
Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we? — Rose Kennedy
Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels. — William Bartram
Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action. — Susan Collins
Here the hens cackle, there they lay eggs — Greek Proverbs
Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans;
High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free. — James Montgomery
Short Canaries 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. — David Horowitz
The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings. — Nikos Kazantzakis
Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come. — Galway Kinnell
Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine — Jay Baer
The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems. — Kurt Vonnegut
You can't soar like an eagle and crap like a canary. — Sayings
A caged canary is safe but not free. — Walter E. Williams
My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands. — Jason Statham
Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow. — David Crosby
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Souls of poets dead and gone,
What Elysium have ye known,
Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
Have ye tippled drink more fine
Than mine host's Canary wine? — John Keats
The benefit of short sellers to the markets is they’re sort of the canary in the coal mine...They are the early warning signal about a problem in the business, a problem in the capital markets. — Bill Ackman
My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless. — Alison Bechdel
Women and gay people are the litmus test of whether a society is democratic and respecting human rights. We are the canaries in the mine. — Peter Tatchell
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. — Sarah Waters
You should see what she’s wearing, Callie. It’s velvet. Canary yellow velvet. Turban to match. She looks like a furry banana. — Sarah MacLean
places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that? — Charles Bukowski
A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within. — Chuck Baldwin
Surfers are the canaries down the mine. Those of us who surf spend more time than anyone soaking in whatever the sea has become. We're suspended in consequences, you might say. — Tim Winton
A tom cat hijacked a plane, stuck a pistol into the pilot's ribs and demanded: 'Take me to the canaries'. — Bob Monkhouse
The smell of that buttered toast simply spoke to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cozy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender; of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries. — Kenneth Grahame
You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents. — Henry Ward Beecher
Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow wings), the chesty preening of redbirds and bluebirds, the blackbird with the red-tipped wings like startling epaulets. — Terry Kay
Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions. — Jaron Lanier
Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull. — Annie Dillard
Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself. — John Keats
She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years. — J. D. Salinger
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat-glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning? — Frank N. Ikard
You know it's time to start using mouthwash when your dentist leaves the room and sends in a canary. — Joan Rivers
Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We compared notes. We found strange affinities. The same June of the same year (1919) a stray canary had fluttered into her house and mine, in two widely separated countries. Oh, Lolita, had you love me thus! — Vladimir Nabokov
You could say sorry, suggested Harry bluntly.
What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries? muttered Ron.
What did you have to imitate her for?
She laughed at my mustache!
So did I, it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. — J. K. Rowling
Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary. — J. K. Rowling
The Water Canary [is] a fast, cheap device that answers an important question: Is this water contaminated? — Sonaar Luthra
That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.' — Alvah Bessie
We're performing several shows in the Canary Islands. — George Duke
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. — Dixie Dean
Farm workers are society's canaries. Farm workers - and their children - demonstrate the effects of pesticide poisoning before anyone else. — Cesar Chavez
In this digital age, it doesn't really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there are opportunities waiting to be grasped by entrepreneurs. — Richard Branson
When I was young I drew constantly in my sketchbooks to learn to see things. My first teacher in school, Gilbert Stone, taught me that you have to see things as they are first. Then you can distort, exaggerate, or re-create the world. I sketch in a small, unobtrusive sketchbook or on any paper at hand. I write on canary yellow tablets or any scrap available. I'm constantly doodling, even while editing my kids' homework, much to their chagrin! — Douglas Florian
Trump is the hyperventilating yellow canary in the coal mine reminding us all that social death is a looming threat. He is emblematic of a kind of hyper-masculinity that rules dead societies. He is the zombie with the blond wig holding a flamethrower behind his back. He is the perfect representation of the society of spectacle, with the perverse grin and the endless discourse of shock and humiliation. — Henry Giroux
Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine. — Seth Godin
It seems to me that society usually wins. There are, to be sure, free spirits in the world, but their freedom, in the last analysis, is not much greater than that of a canary in a cage. They may leap from perch to perch; they may bathe and guzzle at their will; they may flap their wings and sing. But they are still in the cage, and soon or late it conquers them. — H. L. Mencken
The image that I remember most of all is of the Fenerbahçe players storming into the stadium before kickoff. They were called the canaries because of their yellow jerseys. It was as if they, like canaries, were fluttering into the stadium out of a hole. I loved it. It was poetry. — Orhan Pamuk
Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities, or the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations, which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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