Vultures Quotes

“I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.”

“I will love you ... as a corpse loves the beak of the vulture.”

“The vultures that once wheeled over our heads must be buried with their prey.”

“Wikipedia: Vultures”

“The Vulture is a Patient Bird
Like a Hole in the Head
An Ace Up My Sleeve
Want to Stay Alive
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“The vultures to the conqueror’s banner true
Who feed where Desolation first has fed,
And whose wings rain contagion.”

“What flocks of critics hover here to-day,
As vultures wait on armies for their prey,
All gaping for the carcass of a play!”

“Live with vultures, become a vulture; live with crows, become a crow”

“I am ... a friend of the mountain buzzards and feeder of seacoast vultures.”

“There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen.”

“The bearded vulture [...] kills wild bulls in the foothills, and it kills the stags in the high mountains.”

“That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign
The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain;
Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore,
Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.”

“Spain stooped on South America, like a vulture on its prey. Every thing was force. Territories were acquired by fire and sword.”

“For an author Jerry Vail was rather nice-looking, most authors, as is widely known, resembling in appearance the more degraded types of fish, unless they look like birds, when they could pass as vultures and no questions asked.”

“A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble.”

“If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture — that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.”

“Prometheus, I have no Titan's might,
Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart,
For daytime's vulture talons tear apart
The tender alcoves built by love at night.”

“Vultures are one of the few bird species that are afraid of their own dead. But only when they're hung at the roost site. If you hang them anywhere else then they'll eat them.”

“I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.”

“God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates.”