Best Albatross Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Wings are of many kinds. Butterfly's wings, vulture's wings, eagle-wings, spread wings of white swans, dragonfly's serene wings, wings of albatross, lovely wings of humming birds, tiny wings of a fly or a bumble-bee-wings; and when they fly, they fly their best according to their ability of flying. We should not underestimate the size of those heavenly wings.”

“So, money is good, and money is necessary, and money is that thing that tells you that what you're doing is not a fool's errand. But the money is also an albatross, changing your relationship to the art.”

Art Change Money Necessary Albatross

Book:Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

Source: Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

“Our mind is a limitless sky and we can only be an albatross flying in the vast expanse to occasionally discover the joys of sublimity!”

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Author:Avijeet Das

“The significance of a revolution will be known after the days have gone past us. When the children in the coming years wake up and like the albatross glide across the azure sky.The freedom to live a life of meaning and joy.”

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Author:Avijeet Das

“But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see what can happen to a page or a junior congressman, it passes on in a very real way, not in a history-class sense, that reality of what political power really is, .. Who are we to impose this emotional albatross on public servants? As a nation, we pretend to elect our leaders. It seems unjust to make them a special class to suffer for our sins over wrongheaded laws, or pay a continuing emotional price for securing their future careers.”

“It does the things we're also most concerned about. It tries very hard to stay alive. It's motivated to reproduce. It gets hungry and goes to look for food. It gets frightened. Compared to other things in the universe, we and the albatrosses are almost identical.”

Trying Looks Doe Hard Universe Alive Concerned Hungry Frightened Motivated Identical Staying Alive Albatross

Author:Carl Safina

“If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company.”

Ifs Left Company Grandfather My Grandfather Albatross

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.”

Progress Tradition Necks Albatross

Author:Bill Veeck

“The ethics of sex is a thorny problem. Each of us is forced to grope for a solution he can live with - in the face of preposterous, unworkable, and evil code of so-called 'Morals.' Most of us know the code is wrong, almost everybody breaks it. But we pay Danegeld by feeling guilty and giving lip service. Willy-nilly, the code rides us, dead and stinking, an albatross around the neck.”

Knows Giving Feelings Problem Faces Evil Sex Pay Moral Break Solutions Ethics Lips Guilty Code Necks Lip Service Feeling Guilty Albatross

Book:Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“I certainly never doubted the ability for the guys to get together and make good music, but there was so much legal business with the record company that it ended up being like five albatrosses around our neck.”

Together Guy Ability Company Records Five Necks Doubted Get Together Record Companies Albatross

Author:John Bush

“It's the spring of 2012, that the [Barak] Obama administration would be embracing the argument that the Affordable Care Act was a tax, and that was going to, itself, be a political albatross.”

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Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.

“When you're in the middle of nowhere, when you're on this tiny little island, probably one of ten people ever to step foot on this island, it's taken you a week to get there by boat - and you step near to an albatross nest. It doesn't even look at you as the enemy. You get this great nature moment. Until you realize the albatross, along with the thousands of other winged albatrosses next to it, has constructed its nest of trash.”

People Looks Littles Moments Next Realizing Steps Enemy Taken Week Feet Middle Ten Tiny Boat Islands Trash Nests Middle Of Nowhere Albatross

Author:Jeff Corwin

“The creatures of the sea hold special mystery, and they are among the most exciting, graceful, and beautiful on Earth. Just consider the living riot of a coral reef, the beauty of an albatross, the awesome power of a giant turtle, the grace of a dolphin. Now multiply that by the millions of creatures in the sea. Wow!”

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Author:Carl Safina

“Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy and often you have to carry an albatross. And it won't happen until people are able to have a certain level of trust and try to speak to each other, not as caricatures but as people.”

People Trying Happens Able Past Certain Courses Speak Levels Burden Legacy Caricatures Albatross

Author:Desmond Tutu

“The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable.”

Should Mean Necks Verbs Garlands Albatross

Author:Gene Weingarten

“I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to Hollywood, I've got a good agent, I've got a good manager, I'm getting a lot of work out there and doing a lot of stuff - getting a lot of film projects on the go.”

Film Stuff Calling Projects Hollywood Work Out Cards Agents Managers Good Man Good Manager Albatross Trainspotting

Author:Irvine Welsh

“Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.”

Inspirational Funny Water Drink Environmental Boards Sailing Shrinks Drinking Water Drop Of Water Drink Water Water Resources Sea Water Albatross

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. [to Inara] Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint.”

Way Trying Remember Girl Rain Destruction Luck Ships Idiot Serenity Captains Good Luck That Girl Firefly Albatross

Author:Joss Whedon

“Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say. I do. But I like to hear you say it. Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.”

Knows World Firsts Wells Littles Home Turns Fall Air Math Flying Boat Shakes Verses Buttons Falling Down Firefly World Love Albatross

Author:Joss Whedon

“The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried this albatross since the age of eleven, when I started at grammar school. Not a day would pass without somebody I knew turning out to be adopted or illegitimate, or to have mothers who were about to hare off with some bloke, or to have dead fathers and shabby stepfathers. What busy lives they led. How I envied their excuses for introspection, their ear-marked receptacles for every just antagonism and noble loyalty.”

Source: The Rachel papers

“It is said that any virtue when taken to an extreme can become a vice. Overscheduling our days would certainly qualify for this. There comes a point where milestones can become millstones and ambitions, albatrosses around our necks.”

Said Virtue Taken Ambition Vices Extremes Necks Milestone Albatross

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.”

Wells Looks Young Evil Crosses Necks Hung Albatross Evil Look

Book:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!”

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Author:John Green

“So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.”

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Book:The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

“The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art”

People Art Hurt Divine Hurt Feelings Albatross

Author:Stephen Stills

“Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross”

Wells Art Important Halloween Albatross

Author:Stephen Stills

“View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.”

Giving Past Views Enemy Wings Albatross

Author:Alan Cohen

“As for me, I used to be a bird with a gentle white womb, someone cut my throat just for laughs, I don’t know. As for me, I used to be a great albatross and whirled over the seas. Someone put an end to my journey, without any charity in the tone of it. But even stretched out on the ground I sing for you now my songs of love.”

Knows Ends Used Song White Laughing Cutting Journey Sea Bird Charity Used To Be Gentle Tone Throat Womb My Journey Albatross

Book:Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini

Source: Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini

“I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks.”

People Might Able Enjoy Rounds Miles Necks Affliction Daydreaming Albatross

Author:Seamus Heaney

“A great number of soundings, mainly along the continental slope of the New England States were also taken by the vessels of the United States Fish Commission. Important soundings were made by the United States Fish Commission steamer ALBATROSS in the Caribbean, during the winter of 1883-1884.”

Source: A Contribution to American Thalassography: Three Cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steameer

“Of all the ships that have been devoted to biological explorations of the sea, none has surpassed the endeavors conducted on board the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross, during her 39 years of service from 1882 to 1921.”

Years Has Beens Sea Ocean Ships Boards Exploration Endeavor Devoted Ocean Exploration Albatross Fisheries Years Of Service

Author:Paul Bartsch

“Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena.”

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Author:Robert Byrd

“I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life, like a whirlwind. She's ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play.”

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Author:Jessica Brown Findlay

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