A Quote by Ingrid Newkirk

Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

Ingrid Newkirk

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Activity Birds Greedy Kind Lousy Often One Thing Pigeon Racing Thing Unlawful

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Ingrid Newkirk
British - Activist
Born: June 11, 1949

No human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitomy of chaos and anarchy, a pigeon that whizzes around unpredictably, that sets it's claws in you, picks at your eyes.

Patrick Süskind

We often get pigeon-holed as a tough guy, or whatever else. I've been pigeon-holed as a heavy and serious, and almost a baddy, but not quite a baddy, over the years of my work in television, particularly.

John Noble

There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.

Ayn Rand

If anyone has engaged unlawful activity, they should be held to account with the full force of the law.

Tim Soutphommasane

These Wall Street types, they're not exactly the kind of people you want your children turning into. They're really not very smart. They're certainly not thoughtful or kind. They're often poorly-educated, mostly ignorant and always self-interested and greedy.

Steve Hilton

Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this - the appetite of the blank page for ever more information, ever more data. An empty book is a greedy thing. You are right: You wind up using everything you know, and often more than once.

John Updike

The kind of player who has turned his game around, he used to be lousy and lazy and now he is lazy and lousy.

John Kessel

The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers and fruits each according to their kind, many birds and little birds which sing very sweetly.

Christopher Columbus

NASCAR racing is the highest form of American auto racing, and I've always wanted to be racing in the highest form. I want to accomplish good things in everything I get in every night, but NASCAR is the biggest, most-watched thing in American racing.

Kyle Larson

Do you remember when Fabio got hit in the face with a pigeon on the roller coaster, and it broke his nose? Sometimes I feel like I'm the pigeon, and the Internet is Fabio's face. Actually, I don't know if I'm the pigeon, or I'm Fabio's face. Depends on the day, I guess.

Ryan Gosling

Probably a concern to either a major or minor degree with most actors if they're really motivated to kind of make a significant difference in the business is the 'pigeon-holing' thing.

Dominic Monaghan

I'm kind of new to the racing game thing. I've always been, like, a shooter game kind of guy.

Kevin Dillon

I bet your mom would let me." -Pigeon, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus-

Mo Willems

It's very important, when everyone else seems to be pigeon-holing you, to try and pigeon-hole yourself.

Winston Marshall

Peaceful demonstrations are essential to our democratic system. Unfortunately, some individuals have engaged in unlawful and dangerous activity, including arson, rioting, looting, and damaging public and private property.