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Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls. -- Amy Lowell
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
In the street, your mouth's a beak, big like a bird, and your future's bleak. -- Kool Moe Dee
Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye -- Joanna Baillie
People are like birds - from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes. -- Richard J. Needham
People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line. -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything. -- Paul Kantner
Please also remember the pitiful gasping/thirsty little mouths/ beaks in summer. They'll appreciate abundant/fresh/cool/clean/ water! Food they can get easily in parks/sidewalks! -- Adela Popescu
It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized! -- Joey Santiago
A wonderful bird is the pelican His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week, But I'm damned if I see how the helican. -- Dixon Lanier Merritt
ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble. -- Ambrose Bierce
I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy? -- Matt Lauer
Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk. -- Jack Handey
My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out. -- Brett Hull
It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men: But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again. -- Joyce Kilmer
The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
God is a lion that comes in the night. God is a hawk gliding among the stars-- If all the stars and the earth, and the living flesh of the night that flows in between them, and whatever is beyond them Were that one bird. He has a bloody beak and harsh talons, he pounces and tears. -- Robinson Jeffers
As you may know, KFC is under worldwide pressure to eliminate its cruelest abuses of chickens, such as cutting the beaks off baby birds; breeding chickens to grow so large, so quickly that many suffer crippling injuries; and slitting the birds' throats or dropping them into tanks of scalding-hot water while they are still alive and able to feel pain. -- Pamela Anderson
Pel-i-cans, their beaks hold more than their bellies can. -- Kelly Corrigan
On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage. -- Robert Lowell
Love is both Creator's and Saviour's gospel to mankind; a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of humming-birds printed with peach-juice on the leaves of lilies. -- Herman Melville
With a few exceptions, birds are not to be trusted; it is not normal to have such soft, vulnerable bodies bookended with slashing beaks and razor-sharp claws. It is as unnatural as an armed marshmallow. -- Mallory Ortberg

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