Top 976 Jim Crow Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Slum children eat crow's eggs for nutrition yet nobody respects this common bird. It's the exotic birds which fascinate all.

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

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

Only brooms Know the devil Still exists, That the snow grows whiter After a crow has flown over it

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

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

They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning.

And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?

My dad, Jim, was 55 when I was born.

I love Jim and Pam at 'The Office.'

Jim eyed me for a couple of seconds, then got off the bed and went to curl up on the pile of blankets I'd arranged as its bed. "I don't suppose you'd care to lend me a couple hundred euros?" I pointed at the wall. It turned its back to me so I could get into the nightgown Perdita had lent me. "You are not going to bet on me. Or against me. No betting whatsoever. Got that?" Jim huffed and settled down for the night. "You sure do know how to take all the fun out of life. Bet you even made Drake use a condom.

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

The American crow is at an all-time low of 82 birds. Others hit by the West Nile, like the black-capped chickadee, have rebounded.

The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

I loved working with Jim Cornette.

Across from me at the next row of supports Jim raised his hand and touched his fingers to his thumb a few times, imitating an opening and closing beak. Negotiate. He wanted me to engage a lunatic who had already turned four people into smoking meat. Okay. I could do that. “Alright, Jeremy!” I yelled into the night. “Give me the salamander and I won’t cut your head off!” Jim put his hand over his face and did some shaking. I thought he was laughing, but I couldn’t be sure.

I wanted to be the female Jim Carrey.

Jim Henson was an absolute genius.

I liked Jim Carrey from the very beginning.

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

Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.

Jim had a spirit that was incapable of compromise.

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

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

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

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

Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.

But surely "Argh" is the sound of a sort of strangulated scream. "Aargh" is the sound of a stabbing, or a falling off a cliff. "Arr" is, I think, the noise you're looking for. It's the noise pirates make when they don't have anything better to do. "Arr, Jim Lad" = Pirate noise. "Aargh, Jim Lad" = sound of pirate falling off a cliff.

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

When he was a player, I was always close to Jim Fregosi.

Surely it wasn't possible that Vin diPietro was the first assignment. "Hello?" DiPietro waved. "You in there?" Nah, Jim thought. Can't be. That would be above and beyond any call of duty. Over the guy's shoulder, the commercial that was on the TV suddenly showed a price of $49.99-no, $29.99, with a little red arrow that ... considering where Vin was standing, poined right at his head. "Sh*t, no" Jim muttered. This was the guy? On the Tv screen, some woman in a pink bathrobe smiled up at the camera and mouthed, Yes, it is!

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

Dammit, Jim. I'm a Guardian, not a doctor.

It was stealing her breath, imbecile. Go get a towel." -Christophe, Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course It could be done.

Jim mentioned I was an ALEC member, and that's correct.

It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

I'm down with Jim Jones.

Union in privacy (with one's wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.

I like Jim Kelly.

Jim Comey is either dense or he's pathological.

Jim Leighton is looking a sharp as a tank

If you work with Jim Carrey, you're working with the best.

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

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

There was a thing in the Andy Kaufman movie that Jim Carrey [Man On The Moon] about how he would do it. I didn't even see the movie. I read the script. But someone asked me, "Do you know what the best part of the Jim Carrey/Andy Kaufman movie is?" And I said, "me lee see ree bee." I just knew that would be the best part.

I got a hug from Kathleen Marshall, Sheryl Crow, and Barry Levinson all in the same day - and that was something pretty special!

I really like Jim Carrey.

Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.

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

I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.

Snap into a Slim Jim!

Working with Jim Sheridan for instance, we did this movie Brothers. Jim will ask anybody - we'll get a delivery on set, and like the poor delivery guy will be like, "Here's your pizza," and he'll be like, "Come over here. Come here. I want to ask you a question. Do you think this is real? What do you think? Should we do another take?" And they're like, "I, uh, you want your pizza?" There's no shame in everybody's ideas. There's no shame in somebody not knowing.

The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it.

Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

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

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

It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.

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

I was a great fan of Jim Henson.