Top 287 Crow Quotes & Sayings

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.

She brought me a crow's feather...," he whispered.

I think the important thing to understand first and foremost about Michael Jackson is that he was the international emblem of the African American blues spiritual impulse that goes back through slavery - Jim Crow, Jane Crow, up to the present moment, through a Louis Armstrong, through a Ma Rainey, through a Bessie Smith, all the way to John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin and Nina Simone.

The black crow thinketh her own birds white.

I had - and have - huge respect for John Crow.

Give people a taste of Old Crow, and tell them it's Old Crow. Then give them another taste of Old Crow, but tell them it's Jack Daniel's. Ask them which they prefer. They'll think the two drinks are quite different. They are tasting images

I wouldn't vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow laws.

Once in a while, God sends a good white person my way, even to this day. I think it's God's way of keeping me from becoming too mean. And when he sends a nice one to me, then I have to eat crow. And honey, crow is a tough old bird to eat, let me tell you.

Evil is everywhere. But to believe that this is a country that resembles the Jim Crow-era is ludicrous and disingenuous.

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.

Intellectual is a parrot; wise man is a crow. One is repetitive; other is creative!

Crow paced back and forth, his form flickering like flame. "It's been a thousand years, Alister. I never intended for anyone to find it, so it's very well protected. One little misstep, and you and my line will be history." "Since when are you so concerned about your line?" Han said. Crow stared at him for a long moment. "Since I found out I had one.

My style is not specific to the antebellum South, but it's heavily inspired by the Jim Crow era.

So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.

The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.

Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time. Slavery defined what it meant to be black (a slave), and Jim Crow defined what it meant to be black (a second-class citizen). Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be black.

The true test of humility is whether you can say grace before eating crow.

I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit.

Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south.

Your eyes have turned as black as a Crow’s,” she blurted out. He didn’t even blink over her bizarre comment. “Not this time, Christina,” he said in a furious whisper. “Compliments won’t get me off balance again, my little temptress. I swear to God, if you ever again dismiss me so casually, I’m going to––” “Oh, it wasn’t a compliment,” Christina interrupted, letting him see her irritation. “How presumptuous of you to think it was. The Crow is our enemy.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.

I think everyone became sick of Sheryl Crow. I actually became sick of Sheryl Crow.

Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias.

People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.

Recently I heard Sheryl Crow and I loved her, she was terrific.

Holy crow!" ~Bella Swan

If you're successful, don't crow. If you're defeated, don't croak.

We've come a long way from the days of Jim Crow, and yes, we elected a black president, but racism lives.

The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it.

Which is bigger? A baby eagle or a giant crow?

I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.

How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history.

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.

We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves!

The crow does not hide its prey, but calls for others to share it; So wealth will be with those of a like disposition.

Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

I wanted to remind myself and others of the old Jim Crow, so that we can remind ourselves that we're still living in the new Jim Crow. I feel it's important to dress in the fashion of the times.

A crow may put on human shape or crow shape, but we remain crows,” he replied firmly. “Hawks, too, are the same, whether they are born in human nests or hawk ones. The nestlings must always be protected. Since you have chosen to protect these, I and mine will protect you.

A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.

Funboy: Pal, something is seriously wrong with you. The Crow: Atrocity has that effect on me.

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

We started America with the sin of slavery that led right into the post-reconstruction period which was the greatest period of domestic terrorism in our country's history. Then after that, we had Jim Crow emerge and just when the Jim Crow laws were ending came the onslaught of the drug war. Well, the drug war has so perniciously effected, insidiously infected communities of color that in some ways it has come full circle, and we now have more African Americans under criminal supervision than all of the slaves in 1865. This is a profoundly unjust war.

Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

I will make thee think thy swan a crow.

On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening

Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a white crow. Both for a philosopher and for a scientist it can be important not to reject the possibility of finding a white crow. You might almost say that hunting for 'the white crow' is science's principal task.

People talk about Jim Crow as if it's dead. Jim Crow isn't gone. It's adjusted. Look at the disproportionate sentences meted out to blacks caught up in the criminal justice system. There's a problem when people profit from putting and keeping African Americans in prison. We need to do a better job as a nation understanding the real values the country's built upon in terms of fairness, equality and equal opportunity.

Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.

The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.

We were copying lots of bands, like Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show.