Wildfowl Quotes & Sayings

Now with the squadrons marshaled, captains leading each,
the Trojans came with cries and the din of war like wildfowl
when the long hoarse cries of cranes sweep on against the sky
and the great formations flee from winter's grim ungodly storms,
flying in force. shrieking south to the Ocean gulfs, speeding
blood and death to the Pygmy warriors, laonching at daybreak
savage battle down upon their heads. But Achaea's armies
came on strong in silence, breathing combat-fury,
hearts ablaze to defend each other to the death. — Fagles Robert

And you never saw anything at all?" asked Tim. Clive shook his head and shrugged again. "Not up there. And we've been up there every night for two years. Debbie even studies up there sometimes. — Peter Clines

India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial. — Mahatma Gandhi

Beautiful machines from 1920s and '30s, when automobiles were both monstrous and sexy at the same time. — Neal Shusterman

I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs. — Harold E. Varmus

Talking to himself was, depressingly, the only way to achieve an intelligent and engaging conversation these days. Carnac tried to ration himself, because it really was not a positive sign of mental stability. "But do you suppose it's better or worse to talk to wildfowl?" he wondered aloud.
The ducks ignored him utterly. — Manna Francis

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls. — Plautus

The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror. — Melanie Phillips

We have relearned since 9/11 the timeless lesson that we don't always get to fight the wars for which we're most prepared or most inclined, "Given that reality, we will need to maintain the full-spectrum capability that we have developed over this last decade of conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. — David H. Petraeus

There's plenty of food here," Erik said dismissively. "We have fish traps and eel traps, we net wildfowl and eat well. And the prospect of silver and gold buys a lot of wheat, barley, oats, meat, fish, and ale. — Bernard Cornwell

Countless were the hares ready skinned and the plucked fowls that hung on the trees for burial in the pots, numberless the wildfowl and game of various sorts suspended from the branches that the air might keep them cool. Sancho counted more than sixty wine skins — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

If you wish to seduce an angel, you must play the part of a devil. — Eliphas Levi