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“About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.”

People Left Birth Favors Storks

Author:Kin Hubbard

“Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a bird capable, say, of catching insects in mid-air, with the result that birds of similar habitats tend to have very similar anatomies, whatever their ancestry. For example, American vultures look and behave much like Old World vultures, but biologists have come to realize that the former are related to storks, the latter to hawks, and that their resemblances result from their common lifestyle.”

“There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window.”

People Ifs Trying Would Be Doors Window Population Explosions Population Explosion Storks

Author:Evan Esar

“The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork.”

Giving Real Poor Birth Bird Storks

Author:Wilson Mizner

“But to measure cause and effect... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for a cause. In the 1990s the stork population of Germany increased and the German at-home birth rate rose as well. Shall we credit storks for airlifting the babies?”

Wells May Home Causes Simple Effects Baby Birth Rose Rate Population Credit Germany Mistaken Cause And Effect Tempting Correlation Pseudoscience Birth Rate Storks Home Birth

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.”

Ifs Should Teach Creation Theory Evolution Atheist Alternatives Reproduction Creation Science Storks

Author:Judith Hayes

“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.”

Life Should Mother Mom Should Have Thrown Storks

Author:Mae West

“With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the negative energy of color overload. It would have served well as the nervous-making set for a nightmare about a children's-show host who led a secret life as an ax murderer. The chain-smoking clown didn't improve the ambience.”

Source: Life Expectancy

“I will tell the stork-man.”

Book:Wild Magic

Source: Wild Magic

“The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.”

Voiceless Storks

Book:How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes

Source: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes

“I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork.”

Years Firsts Father Rocks Sarcastic Throwing Throwing Rocks Storks

Author:Irving Brecher

“I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.”

Faces Moving Form Darkness Bird Sticks Fingers Rounds Fence Hook Wire Eyebrows Mesh Storks

Author:Erich Maria Remarque

“Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.”

Poetry Poet Baby Workshops Storks

Author:James Fenton

“Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?”

Knows Feels Compassion Know How Sparrows Storks

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe