Pigeons: They've got wings, but they walk a lot. — Karl Pilkington
Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons. — Jessye Norman
Look at all these pigeons, think they can just trust us humans? You can't trust us humans! — The Rev
Better a sparrow in hand than a pigeon on the roof. — Polish Proverbs
I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one. — Mike Tyson
I have weird aspirations. Like, I really want to kick a pigeon. — Hannibal Buress
Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk. — Ambrose Bierce
One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon. — Diane Sawyer
It’s better to have a sparrow in one’s hand than a dove on the roof. — Polish Proverbs
Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly? — Tina Fey
You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue. — Claude Chabrol
The Falcon and the Dove sit there together, And th 'one of them doth prune the others feather. — Michael Drayton
Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked — Oscar Wilde
One bird in the hand is better than ten on the roof. — Danish Proverbs
The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old. — Ted Hughes
Short Pigeon Quotes
Retain a calm heart, sit like a turtle, walk swiftly like a pigeon, and sleep like a dog — Li Ching-Yuen
Tesla was 84, and he died in a hotel, completely broke and alone, in love with a pigeon. — Duncan Trussell
Writers are as jealous as pigeons. — Anton Chekhov
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. — Carl Sandburg
Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on — Vladimir Lenin
It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, "if you want it your way, cook it yourself". — Johnny Carson
Don't be a pigeon if you were born to be an eagle. Experience God's altitude for your life. — Myles Munroe
Criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home. — Dale Carnegie
It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up. — Evelyn Waugh
We've got stained glass windows in our house; it's those damned pigeons. — Chic Murray
Don't be afraid of being outnumbered. Eagles fly alone. Pigeons flock together.
Homing Pigeon Quotes
A homing pigeon must love her home; otherwise she will not wish to return to it. — Meir Shalev
I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes. — Ashley Madekwe
The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon. — Rose Macaulay
Eagles don't fly with pigeons.
I'll wire the International Federation of American Homing Pigeon Fanciers and give them the number stamped on the bird's leg ring. — Carolyn Keene
Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons. — May Sarton
No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands. — Lefty Gomez
I zoomed in on the shoe department like a blonde homing pigeon. Shoes, shoes everywhere! Ah, sweet shoes. I truly think you can take the measure of a civilization by looking at its footwear. — MaryJanice Davidson
Flying Pigeon Quotes
I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different. — Lil Wayne
I get really nervous if pigeons are flying around before shows. I can't stand them after one once flew in through my bathroom window and went for me while I was having a wee. That was enough. I think pigeons target me. — Niall Horan
If there were any justice in this world, people would occasionally be permitted to fly over pigeons. — Gene Brown
The pigeons are shitting on George M. Cohan. I shoo them off. They fly up and perch on his hat. Cohan would've never given his regards to Broadway if he saw how dirty they kept his statue in Duffy Square. New Yorkers walk right by. Nobody cares. — John Lahr
He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve itself. — Libba Bray
Pigeon-holed Quotes
If people want to pigeon hole you then just view it as an opportunity to prove them wrong and show that you are different to what they think you are. — Gordon Gee
The quality of the human that precludes identifying the individual with the class is 'metaphysical' and has no place in empiricist epistemology. The pigeon hole into which a man is shoved circumscribes his fate. — Max Horkheimer
The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . . . The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience. — D. H. Lawrence
I'm a real gangster rapper and I'm a rapper. I just think my music takes different directions. I don't think you can pigeon hole me in one genre. I'm probably the most versatile in the game, period. — Freddie Gibbs
I have worried about getting pigeon-holed, but now I think I've done enough weird, offbeat stuff not to be. And I also know that I do things for the right reasons: I've made my money, so I don't have to say yes to anything. — Christopher Meloni
I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering. — Cynthia Nixon
My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing. — Maggie Smith
We often get pigeon-holed as a tough guy, or whatever else. I've been pigeon-holed as a heavy and serious, and almost a baddy, but not quite a baddy, over the years of my work in television, particularly. — John Noble
I am real, real picky with what I decided to do. I want to make sure it's new and at the same time that it's in the same color of what I have played before. Not to pigeon hole myself but I don't like to do fluff. — Ryan Hurst
You can become really pigeon-holed in this industry. — Morris Chestnut
I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them. — Tommy Douglas
What we must do is start viewing every cow, pig, chicken, monkey, rabbit, mouse, and pigeon as our family members. — Gary Yourofsky
He (Tesla) was 84, and he died in a hotel, completely broke and alone. In love with a pigeon. This is a nightmare. I'm in hell. This is hell. I'm talking about Tesla in my puke. Tesla was the electric Jesus. I can't breathe. — Duncan Trussell
The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. The pigeon is perched on the branch of a tree at the edge of that ocean.It only has to open it's beak — Leila Aboulela
Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon. — George Bernard Shaw
But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons. — Chuck Palahniuk
The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere. — Jim Hightower
But charity is a very complicated thing. Its important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel the results. Charity is not like feeding pigeons in the square. It is a process that requires professional management. — Roman Abramovich
I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them. — David Attenborough
I like to do new things, so I always take on roles that I feel will keep me on my toes. I never want to pigeon myself, so I always like to surprise myself. I believe in versatility and so I would play anything as long as it was a challenge. — Archie Panjabi
Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there. — Peter Gavin Hall
To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone. — Virginia Woolf
The only thing I'm afraid of is a life without you, Pigeon. — Jamie McGuire
If pigs had wings, they would be pigeons. — W. C. Fields
This dish ain't just called Karate Meat because it's got an Asian kick to it. It's called Karate Meat because it will beat you up like a pigeon in prison. — Coolio
The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can't spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting. — Guy Ritchie
The most exciting thing in England is a pigeon or foxes, which isn't very interesting to watch because everyone knows what they do. But I've taken pictures of them. Just for practice. — Asa Butterfield
Hovering over me was the Chihuly chandelier. Chihulys are the pigeons of Seattle. They're everywhere and even if they don't get in your way, you can't help but build up a kind of antipathy toward them. — Maria Semple
And London shops on Christmas Eve Are strung with silver bells and flowers As hurrying clerks the City leave To pigeon-haunted classic towers, And marbled clouds go scudding by The many-steepled London sky — John Betjeman
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