Quotes About Vultures

For the first time in our lives, we were living on the backs of others, but that was how you got ahead in the city. When Jim said it made him feel like a vulture, I told him that scavengers got a bum rap. "Vultures don't kill animals, they live off the dead," I said. "And that's what we're doing. We're not bringing misfortune on these people, we're just taking advantage of it.

My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

We already know what buzzards do when they get mad. They throw up.

These funds are called vultures because they feed on "dead" bonds in default.Complaining that "these hedge funds who have bought the bonds at 20-30 cents to a dollar … now want to be repaid in full citing contractual obligations

El cielo se veía muy lejos, muy azul, adornado como una tumba altísima por coronas de zopilotes que volaban en círculos dormidos.

In the distance, a dust devil churned like a dervish, whirling into a patch of flame trees and unhousing a fat band of vultures.

He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead, and their cavalry comes from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to devour.

Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.

“Where, Lord?” they asked. Jesus answered, “Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.”