Lil B
Rapper
"You are what you choose to identify with. You have the choice. A mouse raised by pigeons."
Pigeons quotes
Pigeons
53 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"Writers are as jealous as pigeons."
Carl Sandburg
Poet, Biographer
"Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head."
Aleister Crowley
Occultist, Writer
"We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion."
Meir Shalev
Author
"A homing pigeon must love her home; otherwise she will not wish to return to it."
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"Kill no more pigeons than you can eat."
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"Here comes Monseiur Le Beau. Rosalind: With his mouth full of news. Celia: Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young. Rosalind: Then shall we be news-crammed. Celia: All the better; we shall be the more marketable."
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"It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon."
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"My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing."
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"Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons."
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"I never actually wanted to write horror, oddly enough. It was a kind of misnomer, because I didn't ever actually write horror in the sense of the genre known for it. It was more a type of pigeon-holing in bookshops."
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"This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares."
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"I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low."
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