Best Starlings Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I push away the questions. I don't look for frightening things anymore. Except somewhere, in the deepest recesses of my bones, I feel like they still look for me.”

Fear Horror Fairytale Starlings

Book:Starlings

Source: Starlings

“She must miss him, doesn't she? Doesn't the whole world? Sometimes when it rains, I imagine it as the earth crying for him.”

Father Grief Daughter Crying Starlings

Author:Amanda Linsmeier

“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

“In the midst of all the blurring misinformation, confusion, conflict, and polluted thoughts, all I could hear were the tinnitus sounds of the seven trumpets humming in divine orchestration and the murmurations of starlings. It was the song of silence, the song of songs.”

Conflict Confusion Thoughts On Life Misinformation Thoughts Of The Mind Starlings Song Of Songs Song Of Silence Trumpet Blast Warning Trumpet Gods

Book:Shine

Source: Shine

“Long before the stars died the birds began to sing - cool rippling doves, loud cheery starlings, the long lilting trills of warblers and thrushes.”

Stars Nature Loud Sunset Africa Birds Sing Dusk Cool Starlings Savanna The Last Savanna Doves

Book:The Last Savanna

Source: The Last Savanna

“Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.”

Together Eagles Crow Flocks Starlings

Book:The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster

Source: The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster

“Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.”

Swans Starlings Typhoid

Book:The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

“Once i spoke the language of the flowers,Once i undrestand each word the caterpillar said,Once i smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings.”

Said Language Secret Flower Spokes Gossip Caterpillars Starlings

Author:Shel Silverstein

“I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.”

Ifs Evil Church Five Special Mass Grandmother Officers Collapse Sixty Marvelous Swans Facade Starlings Typhoid

Book:The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

“I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti”

“Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings, And shared a conversation with the housefly in my bed. Once I heard and answered all the questions of the crickets, And joined the crying of each falling dying flake of snow, Once I spoke the language of the flowers. . . . How did it go? How did it go?”

Said Fall Language Secret Heard Dying Cry Flower Bed Conversation Understood Snow Spokes Gossip Cricket Caterpillars Flakes Starlings

Author:Shel Silverstein

“Somebody has to go polish the stars, They're looking a little bit dull. Somebody has to go polish the stars, For the eagles and starlings and gulls Have all been complaining they're tarnished and worn, They say they want new ones we cannot afford. So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars.”

Want Littles Stars Bits Please Little Bit Complaining Dull Worn Complaints Eagles Polish Jars Rags Gulls Starlings

Author:Shel Silverstein

“It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.”

Benefits Elbows Hinges Starlings

Book:The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

“A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.”

Littles Bigs School Beans Liver Census Starlings

Author:Thomas Harris

“In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars.”

Source: Local Girls

“Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt”

Black Shirts Racist Tokens Starlings

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling”

Said Walks Mazes Starlings Daze

Book:Lolita

Source: Lolita

“Global warming doesn't care what's in your bank account." -Sinead Starling”

Care Accounts Global Warming Bank Accounts Starlings

Author:Gordon Korman

“But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.”

Faces Sleep Silence Pillow Lambs Rosy Starlings

Author:Thomas Harris

“...even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.”

Worry Grew Kings Equal Concern Importance Smallest Starlings

Book:The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“It occurred to Dr. Lecter in the moment that with all his knowledge and intrusion, he could never entirely predict her, or own her at all. He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him. He wondered if she had the .45 on her leg beneath the gown. Clarice Starling smiled at him then, the cabochons caught the firelight and the monster was lost in self-congratulation at his own exquisite taste and cunning.”

Ifs Self Moments Lost Taste Caught Legs Monsters Drs Congratulations Cunning Exquisite Gowns Intrusion Caterpillars Starlings Chrysalis

Author:Thomas Harris

“old pear tree starlings announce harvest time”

Fall Tree Harvest Pears Harvest Time Starlings

Author:Phil Noble

“Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.”

Anxiety Beats Locked Panic Skulls Flocks Attics Starlings

Book:Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

Source: Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?”

White Poor Generations Agents Trash Lambs White Trash Starlings

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“You dont have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV.”

“At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.”

Men Firsts Littles Earth Young Practice Air Like You Behavior Spring Surface Aviation Predictions Eagles Little Man Starlings

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.”

Ends Animal Shops Pet Animal Rights Breeding Pet Animals Peta Animal Rights Activists Starlings Animal Activist

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“These hormones still belong to the physiologist and to the clinical investigator as much as, if not more than, to the practicing physician. But as Professor Starling said many years ago, 'The physiology of today is the medicine of tomorrow'.”

Ifs Years Said Stills Today Tomorrow Years Ago Medicine Professors Physicians Hormones Clinicals Investigators Physiology Starlings

Author:Philip Showalter Hench

“He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.”

Life Wells Hard Age Wish Accepting Happened Damn Starlings Wishing You Well

Author:Thomas Harris

“The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.”

Source: The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975

“So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars.”

Stars Please Polish Jars Rags Gulls Starlings

Author:Shel Silverstein