Parakeets Quotes

• Above the forest of the parakeets,
  A parakeet of parakeets prevails,
  A pip of life amid a mort of tails.

  Wallace Stevens

  Tails, Forests

  Wallace Stevens (2012). “The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• La belleza era vacía como una calabaza, vana como un periquito. Pero tenía poder. Olía a almizcle y a naranjas y te hacía cerrar los ojos en una plegaria.

  Janet Fitch

  Oración, Ojo, Naranja

  Janet Fitch (2013). "White Oleander", p.222, Hachette UK.

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• I read, for the first time, of the Carolina Parakeet-a North American parakeet whose green, yellow and reddish-orange plumage appeared vivacious and altogether quite wonderful. As stunning as I found the hawk-chased conures, this bird astounded me even more. That the Carolina Parakeet was extinct simply added to my amazement.

  Christopher Cokinos

  Yellow, Orange, Bird

  Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin

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• My ex-girlfriend owned a parakeet…oh my god, that f**king thing would never shut up. But the bird was cool.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Girlfriend, Kings, Bird

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• You might be a redneck if your parakeet knows the phrase Open up, Police!

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Police, Phrases

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• That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet. The more I spoke of the bird, the more it seemed that, somehow, its existence had been a chimera. Admittedly, my survey was small and unscientific, but intelligent people who could reel off the names of various dinosaurs and identify sparrows at epic distances could not name the forgotten parakeet. I realized, forcefully, what I suppose I knew abstractly: Histories, like species, can go extinct.

  Christopher Cokinos

  Distance, Epic, Intelligent

  Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin

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• On top of all that, look at this guy? I mean he's a idiot, he's 7 feet of pure idiot. You put his brain in a parakeet... zing! It'll fly backwards.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Mean, Wrestling, Feet

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• Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Player, Tennis, Healthy

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• I had a parakeet that used to fly around the house and crash into these huge mirrors my mother put in. Ever heard of this interior design principle, that a mirror makes it seem like you have an entire other room? What kind of jerk walks up to a mirror and goes, Hey look, there's a whole other room in there. There's a guy that looks just like me in there.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Mother, Mirrors, Guy

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• Cómo puede alguien confundir la verdad con la belleza, pensé mientras le miraba. La verdad venía con los ojos hundidos, huesudos o con cicatrices, cariados. Sus dientes eran malos, su pelo gris y desaliñado. Mientras que la belleza era vacía como una calabaza, vanidosa como un periquito. Pero tenía poder. Olía a almizcle y a naranjas y te hacía cerrar los ojos en una plegaria.

  Janet Fitch

  Oración, Ojo, Cabello

  Janet Fitch (2013). "White Oleander", p.222, Hachette UK.

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• I grew up with two different parakeets - one that lived for five years, and one that lived for 13 years - so I always had a bit of an attraction to birds and it's an oddly good fit to be in a movie about birdwatchers.

  Jim Parsons

  Years, Two, Bird

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.

  Christopher Cokinos

  Forget, Environment, Species

  Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin

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• Nunca cuentes tus pollos antes de que eclosionen. Yo solía tener periquitos y nunca contaba cada huevo pensando que tendría los ocho pájaros. Sólo esperabas que salieran bien de la caja nido. Ahora soy como un cisne. Estoy bien encima del agua, pero debajo mis patitas se vuelven locas.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Thinking, Swans

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• Tom Ridge now says we don't have to run out and put plastic sheets all over the house. Great, tell that to my dead parakeet.

  Craig Kilborn

  Running, House, Plastic

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• El ajetreado parloteo del calor chirriaba como un periquito; y estremeciéndose a la luz del mediodía el polvo yacía muerto y blanco como polvo en la cara de una momia, o adulaba con gracia simiesca alrededor de las casetas con muchos juguetes duros y brillantes y frágil alegría de madera: El gorro y las campanillas del Payaso del Tiempo que, tintineando, silbaban a los jóvenes querubines ocultos bajo la apariencia de cada pájaro que vuela; y máscaras brillantes como estrellas para que los jóvenes las usen, para que ningún sueño que pase como un peregrino brillante más allá de nuestro conocimiento, pueda ver indicios de la realidad.

  Edith Sitwell

  Sueño, Estrellas, Pasado

  Edith Sitwell (Dama) (1949). "El cántico de la rosa: poemas: 1917-1949"

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