Cuckoo Quotes (11 quotes)

“Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, Sarah Canary

tags: bird, cuckoo, music, owl, song, water-ousel, waterfall

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“We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Mornings in May,
echoed with the call of cuckoos,
sunlight glowed through fresh green canopies of trees.”
― Meeta Ahluwalia

tags: cuckoo, may, meeta-ahluwalia, meetaahluwalia, nature, poem, poetry, trees

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“Bright May afternoons—
mango trees in the garden
echoed with cuckoo calls.”
― Meeta Ahluwalia

tags: cuckoo, haiku, mango, may, meeta-ahluwalia, meetaahluwalia, nature-quotes, poetry, poetry-quotes

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“Even in Kyoto--
Hearing the cuckoo's cry--
I long for Kyoto”
― Basho

tags: cuckoo, haiku, kyoto, longing, nostalgia

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“I gobble the food down, trying to imagine that I am sitting at the table with them. Trying to imagine myself as their daughter again, and not what's left of her.

A cuckoo trying to fit back into the egg.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

tags: cuckoo, eating, egg, holly-black, imagining, suren, the-stolen-heir, wren

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“Беше почти осем, когато се върна в офиса си. Това бе часът, в който Лондон му се струваше най-привлекателен; работният ден беше свършил, прозорците на пъбовете светеха уютно подобно на скъпоценни камъни, улиците бяха пълни с живот, неуморно вечните стари сгради, омекотени от уличното осветление, пор��ждаха странно чувство на успокоение. Виждали сме много като теб, сякаш мълвяха те утешително, докато той куцукаше по Оксфорд Стрийт, понесъл сгъваемо походно легло. Седем и половина милиона сърца биеха в непосредствена близост в този оживен стар град и със сигурност много от тях бяха далеч по-тежко ранени от неговото. Докато крачеше уморено покрай затварящите магазини, а небето над него придобиваше цвят на индиго, Страйк откри утеха в мащабите”
― Робърт Галбрейт, The Cuckoo's Calling

tags: cuckoo

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“Hail! Beautious Stranger of the wood,
Attendant on the spring!
Now Heaven repairs thy rural seat,
And woods thy welcome sing.
Sweet bird! Thy bower is ever green,
Thy sky is ever clear,
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year!”
― Michael Bruce, The Poetical Works of Michael Bruce, with Life and Writings by William Stephen

tags: cuckoo

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“Iram, biram, brendon, bo,
Where did all the children go?
They went to the east. They went to the west.
They went where the cuckoo has its nest.”
― Alan Garner, Treacle Walker

tags: blue-eyes, children, cuckoo, folklore, lost, missing, turkey

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