quotes about Ostriches
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Ostrich is a very lean meat. Bison is a very lean meat. Chicken is a very lean meat. Notice something about my favorite meats?
-- Arlo Guthrie -
I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
-- Bette Davis -
I will endanger your species like an ostrich, Hold you hostage, and crazy feed you swine sausage!
-- Busta Rhymes -
Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes
-- Dan Brown -
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With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort rather than challenge in their art. It's a lot easier to listen to Barry Manilow murder what are actually good songs from the '50s than to consider what [left-leaning songwriter] Steve Earle has to say.
-- David Fricke -
Gentlemen, as sure as I'm sitting here now, the result of continuation of a non-system, the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude, the constant rejection of any efforts to solve this problem, will produce an Armageddon in the American population in those states where there is a big problem.
-- Dianne Feinstein -
Concentrate on the wonders and joys of this life, and accept the very best which is your true heritage. It is not being an ostrich, afraid of life and not facing it. It is seeing the reality of this glorious life which is yours, and in doing so, helping to bring it about. The more clearly you can see it, the more quickly will it come about.
-- Eileen Caddy -
Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry - and found them both equally misleading. Perhaps it will now try the third, the road of scientific truth, the only road on which the passenger is not deceived. Science does not, ostrich-like, bury its head amidst perils and difficulties. It tries to see everything exactly as everything is.
-- Garrett P. Serviss -
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Like the ostrich, head under wingWhen the roaring storm breaks,So many people take refugeUnder the soft pillowOf specious arguments.
-- Georges Rouault -
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
-- H. G. Wells -
When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.
-- Jeane Kirkpatrick -
I don't want a team that escapes from reality and escapes from the truth. I don't want people who are always escaping, who always have a story and are always conniving. An ostrich tries to escape from the truth. Isn't an ostrich the thing that puts its head in the sand? But guess what's sticking out when he does it? It's ass, that's what. I don't want a team like that......Because when you have a team like that and trouble comes, that team will not face the trouble.
-- John Chaney -
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Rock star, flier than an ostrich.
-- Juelz SantanaSource : "Song: Black Republicans (Da Drought 3)". April 13, 2007.
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A ranch hand, equivalent of the old gaucho, rides after an ostrich, swinging three-thonged and weighted baleadoras. Note how only the toe of the boot is in the stirrup iron. In old times, the gaucho often rode with only the great toe of the bare foot in a metal ring.
-- Luis Marden -
A lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it like ostriches. Movie industry people are definitely in denial right now, but you do become desensitized to violence when you see it on the screen so often. Let's face it, violence exists for one reason in movies, and that's to get an effect, create an emotion, sell tickets. - on the link between movies and school violence.
-- Madeleine Stowe -
We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive.
-- Margaret Heffernan -
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I am she who lifts the mountains When she goes to hunt, Who wears mamba for a headband And a lion for a belt. Beware! I swallow elephants whole And pick my teeth with rhinoceros horns, I drink up rivers to get at the hippos. Let them hear my words! Nhamo is coming And her hunger is great. I am she who tosses trees Instead of spears. The ostrich is my pillow And the elephant is my footstool! I am Nhamo Who makes the river my highway And sends crocodiles scurrying into the reeds!
-- Nancy Farmer -
The ostrich is the only animal officially endowed with political direction.
-- Pierre Daninos -
I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.
-- Pierre Salinger -
Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
-- Samuel BeckettSource : Samuel Beckett (2012). “Murphy”, p.115, Faber & Faber
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A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.
-- Thomas MalthusSource : Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.4, University of Michigan Press
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I break all the rules and wear everything. Ruffles, ostrich feathers, fox coats. You look fat in fox anyway, so if you start fat, you only look a little fatter.
-- Totie Fields -
I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.
-- Lupita Nyong'o