Parrots Quotes (page 2)

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• cage
• caged
• cages

A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage. Sylvia Plath

• words
• law
• learning

You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest. Lloyd Alexander

• gossip
• personal
• giving

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip. Billy Graham

• morning
• late night
• dog

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. Marie Corelli

• silence
• fly
• bird

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. Saskya Pandita

• words
• appearance
• time

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. Joseph Conrad

• political
• people
• play

The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election. John Major

• supply and demand
• demands
• supplying

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist. Thomas Carlyle

• dog
• kids
• oven

I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots! Michael Landon

• family
• gossip
• families

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. Will Rogers

• gossip
• such a way
• live

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. Will Rogers

• evening
• walking
• funny

The parrot's so funny. He imitates me and I don't even realize he's doing it. I'm walking around the house talking to myself and whistling and the next day he's said something I've said... it's scary you know? Mick Ralphs

• learning
• animal
• comforting

The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am. Steve Irwin

• coming
• eric
• wanted

Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder. Neil Innes

• just do it
• pick
• accent

I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it. Brion James