Quotes About Pigeon

Of all the strands in Operation Fortitude, none was quite so bizarre, so wholly unlikely, as the great pigeon double cross, the first and only avian deception scheme ever attempted.

A homing pigeon must love her home; otherwise she will not wish to return to it.

Any cat who can't hear a pigeon bouncing down a cliff needs his ears checked.

Do you remember when Fabio got hit in the face with a pigeon on the roller coaster, and it broke his nose? Sometimes I feel like I'm the pigeon, and the Internet is Fabio's face. Actually, I don't know if I'm the pigeon, or I'm Fabio's face. Depends on the day, I guess.

There's a pigeon's nest on the branch of the tree outside the window. A chick is growing up in it. I'm happy about that

It is so beautifully ironic that St. Francis - the great lover of animals - is now a pigeon's target in countless yards.

Winter lives under a pigeon's wing, a dead wing with damp feathers.

Here are instructions for being a pigeon: (1) Walk around aimlessly for a while, pecking at cigarette butts and other inappropriate items. (2) Take fright at someone walking along the platform and fly off to a girder. (3) Have a shit. (4) Repeat.

Pigeon racing was introduced to Taiwan from Japan at the turn of the last century; the country's obsession with the sport really began only about forty years ago.

The pigeon dance came from a group from Rio de Janeiro who had a song in around 2012. A trend was started when I did the dance at home. Everyone started copying me.

Didn't you tie the mittens on her feet (Wednesday Evening's) extra special nice? Yes--she is an extra special nice pigeon. She cries for pity when she wants pity. And she shuts her eyes when she doesn't want to look at you. And if you look deep in her eyes when her eyes are open you will see lights there exactly like the lights on the pastures and the meadows when the mist is drifting on a Wednesday evening just between the twilight and gloaming.

The department," she said in a choked voice, "the department got a letter from Mo Willems! Mo Willems! Can you believe it? Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! is one of my favorite books. Oh, I think I'm going to cry.

The passenger pigeon remained an emblem of natural bounty, but now it also represented the squandering of that bounty. In 1947 the conservationist Aldo Leopold dedicated a monument to the pigeon near the site of its greatest recorded nesting, at which hunters slaughtered 1.5 million birds. The plaque read: "This species became extinct through the avarice and thoughtlessness of man.

I'll wire the International Federation of American Homing Pigeon Fanciers and give them the number stamped on the bird's leg ring.

Well," said Larry with dignity, "it may give you pleasure to be woken at half-past three in the morning by a pigeon who seems intent on pushing his rectum into your eye...

You can never lose a homing pigeon -- if your homing pigeon doesn't come back, what you've lost is a pigeon.

Colder than lunar rainbows, changefuller Than sleeked purples on a pigeon's neck.

I assumed it was someone trying to sell me something. They're always calling to sell. Once they said if I sent in a check for $99 I'd be pre-approved for a credit card, and I said, Right, sure, and if I step under a pigeon I'm preapproved for a load of shit

Once a subscription was raised for him; and, to keep up his spirits, he was presented before the holidays with two white mice, a rabbit, a pigeon, and a beautiful puppy. Old Cheeseman cried about it — especially soon afterwards, when they all ate one another.

C ést le pigeon, Joseph.

The stock from a pigeon is unique. It's much better than quail or duck.

The relationship between critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue.

A grey pigeon flies with heavy wing beats across the yard. It sits on the low wall bounding the pig-sties and tries to remember what it came for.

Well, anyone could buy a green Jaguar, find beauty in a Japanese screen two thousand years old. I would rather be a connoisseur of neglected rivers and flowering mustard and the flush of iridescent pink on an intersection pigeon's charcoal neck.