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Quotes About Ducks

Certain kinds of duck are very generous on the egg front, so we've had them laboring from dawn to dusk for thousands of years along with chickens, just so we can bake cakes and meringues and quiche Lorraine.
~ Lucy Ellmann
Jack found a small stone and threw it at them. The stone bounced across the ice. Only the gulls took flight. The ducks raced to the stone as if they thought it might be bread; then they waddled away from it. The gulls returned to the ice. Soon the ducks sat down, as if they were having a meeting, and the gulls walked disdainfully around them.
~ John Irving
Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire.
~ Cassandra Clare
The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to prompt the coining of a popular saying: 'I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat.
~ Mary Roach
Ducks are sweet, crows are intelligent; but I prefer dolphins because they are both sweet and intelligent.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Then, looking at your calendar, pick the two months when the barrel is stuffed full of ducks. Your answer here is March and April for many, many reasons. Also, responsible families with kids begin their search a month or two before school is out for the summer.
~ Unknown
I find that ducks' opinion of me is greatly influenced by whether or not I have bread.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Ducking ponds where dogs chased ducks were popular amusements at parks, and sometimes, to increase the fun, an owl would be tied to the duck's back, which caused it to dive in terror until one or both of the birds died.
~ Unknown
In business since 1948 and claiming to serve 10,000 meals a day, the Rendezvous lies in a busy cellar down an alley near the grand Peabody Hotel, known for the trained ducks that waddle through its lobby twice daily to the music of John Philip Sousa.
~ Unknown