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True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

William Shakespeare

For people in Europe to be destroying swallows' nests as a response to this disease is a disproportionate, unjustified over-reaction.

Robert Hepworth

There is no monkey business going on. This is not an exemption that swallows the rule.

David A. Catania

People get a lot of 'wow' here. You can see a sky so crowded with swallows, it reduces the amount of sunlight coming to the earth. By late October, the sea roils with waves of scoters going by and the counts have been in excess of 45,000 a day. You don't see much of this anymore. This is the way North America used to be.

Pete Dunne

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

Bill Veeck

Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self-made sepulcher of a living man.

Francis Quarles

That is the exception that swallows the rule. Private-to-private takings are still authorized when they are state financed ? something that's true in nearly all large-scale developments. The league-supported bill doesn't end eminent domain abuse; it simply shifts decision-making to St. Paul and enlarges the lobbying power of the Minnesota League of Cities.

Lee Mcgrath

It was the love of love,the love that swallows up all else,a grateful love,a love of nature, of people,of animals,a love engenderinggentleness and goodnessthat moved meand that I saw in you.

William Carlos Williams

We saw 1200 cliff swallows there last year, ... Four thousand robins at one point.

Dan Kennedy

INSECTIVORA, n. 'See,' cries the chorus of admiring preachers, 'How Providence provides for all His creatures!' 'His care,' the gnat said, 'even the insects follows: For us He has provided wrens and swallows.' Sempen Railey.

Ambrose Bierce