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Tag Name "Canary" (23)

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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine
Jay Baer
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Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself.
John Keats
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The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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You should see what she’s wearing, Callie. It’s velvet. Canary yellow velvet. Turban to match. She looks like a furry banana.
Sarah MacLean
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Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We compared notes. We found strange affinities. The same June of the same year (1919) a stray canary had fluttered into her house and mine, in two widely separated countries. Oh, Lolita, had you love me thus!
Vladimir Nabokov
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A caged canary is safe but not free.
Walter E. Williams
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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine. It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
Alan Greenspan
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I think the canary left some feathers in there after you ate it.
Ally Carter
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Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.
Annie Dillard
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[Magnus] was wearing canary-yellow pajamas, and on his feet were green slippers with alien faces, complete with sproingy atennae.
Cassandra Clare
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Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.
David Crosby
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She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years.
J. D. Salinger
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Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's Canary wine?
John Keats
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Knowing without any doubt that the newly elected cannot help but be his zombies, Obama is the cat who swallowed the canary.
Judi McLeod
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Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities, or the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations, which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.
Susan Collins
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It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.
Walker Percy
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My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.
Alison Bechdel
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That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.
Alvah Bessie
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
Anton Chekhov
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A caged canary is secure but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.
Chuck Baldwin
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Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.
David Horowitz