Best Crows Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“Ruffian magpies and crows squabbled shrilly in the swaying tree by my window. Then, unbeknownst to me, a tiny starling with its astral plumage came closer still and made its resonant point with greater subtlety.”

Birds Subtlety Crows Magpies Starlings Astral Birds Quotes Birds In Fiction Making A Point Plumages

Author:Stewart Stafford

“At the chirp of a chipmunk she whirled around, listened keenly to the caws of crows - a language before words were, when communication was simple and clear.”

Nature Communication Crows

Book:Where the Crawdads Sing

Source: Where the Crawdads Sing

“Crows tumble like socks in a drier.”

Crows Socks Tumble Drier

Book:Utopia Avenue

Source: Utopia Avenue

“He was like a crow picking up waste from dustbins (rendered useless by progress)”

Nature Environment Bird Pollution Crow Crows Dustbin Save Earth Save Trees Save Plants

Author:Vineet Raj Kapoor

“A crow can recall every route it has ever taken, and Cadin had been this way before. Crows are messengers, spies, guides, companions, harbingers of luck, deliverers of trinkets and treasures, tireless in all ways, more loyal than any other man or beast.”

Loyalty Witches Crows Familiars

Book:Magic Lessons

Source: Magic Lessons

“A familiar is such a creature, an animal or bird that sees inside to the very soul of its human companion, and knows what others might not. What fears there might be, and what joys, for it shares the emotions of its human partner.”

Loyalty Witches Crows Familiars

Book:Magic Lessons

Source: Magic Lessons

“Crows are ferociously intelligent birds. I used to watch them gather as the men set off for another day of war. Drums, pipes, trumpets, the rhythmical pounding of swords on shields—to the fighters, this music meant honour, glory, courage, comradeship…To the crows, it only ever meant food.”

War Crows

Book:The Women of Troy

Source: The Women of Troy

“The looters comes with the carrion crows after every battle.”

Battle Crows Carrion

Book:A Feast for Crows

Source: A Feast for Crows

“What does evil look like to crows from up in the sky? They're brave enough to play hide-and-seek with the dead.”

Death Crows

Book:If the Creek Don't Rise

Source: If the Creek Don't Rise

“The manor ravens were on the move. One by one, they glided across the lawn and took up posts in the trees that fringed the property. It was rare to see so many at once. And what was that called? “Unkindness,” I said. “An unkindness of ravens.” Rubbing my chilled arms, I rose from the bench and took a last look at the scene below. “Unkindness and murder,” I whispered.”

Murder Ravens Crows

Book:The Unkindness of Ravens

Source: The Unkindness of Ravens

“I had run to boarding school to escape myself. But I couldn't escape who I was or what I'd done, no matter how fast or far I ran. The crows were just a reminder of that. They wanted back in. My past wasn't done with me. Not yet.”

Running Past Crows Kaira Munin

Book:Shades of Darkness

Source: Shades of Darkness

“The crows squawked and scattered from their perch on wooden rail fence, as the rhythmic clip-clop of the horse's hooves grew louder.”

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Book:Lanark County Collection: Winding Our Way Down Memory Lane

Source: Lanark County Collection: Winding Our Way Down Memory Lane

“We dig up dinosaurs to try and figure out what happened to them. Perhaps someday dinosaurs, in the form of corvids, will dig us up to figure out what happened to us.”

Nature Dinosaurs Crows Enviroment Corvids Sixth Extinction

Book:The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

Source: The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

“The island and its women loom large in the dreams of local folks, who sometimes wake up sweating from visions of witches in black (though the island women never wore black) or of crows watchful in treetops, or of swamp streams bubbling up through the floorboards of their houses. It is said the island, where healing waters percolate to the surface, was a place where women shared one another's dreams, a place where women did what they wanted.”

Women Dreams Witches Island Crows Rural Noir

Book:The Waters

Source: The Waters

“She wondered if the outside crows hated the crows of the blistered land the way that the villagers outside hated the people inside.”

People Hate Hatred Hated Crows Nettle And Bone T Kingfisher Marra Wondered Blistered Land

Book:Nettle & Bone

Source: Nettle & Bone

“Our folly was that we listened to the crows when we should have listened to the doves.”

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Author:Anthony T. Hincks