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- A caged canary is safe but not free. -- Walter E. Williams
- Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine. -- Seth Godin
- Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf. -- Anton Chekhov
- I think the canary left some feathers in there after you ate it. -- Ally Carter
- My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands. -- Jason Statham
- It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves. -- Bill Vaughan
- Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come. -- Galway Kinnell
- That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right. -- Alvah Bessie
- Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself. -- David Horowitz
- [Magnus] was wearing canary-yellow pajamas, and on his feet were green slippers with alien faces, complete with sproingy atennae. -- Cassandra Clare
- You know it's time to start using mouthwash when your dentist leaves the room and sends in a canary. -- Joan Rivers
- Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action. -- Susan Collins
- places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that? -- Charles Bukowski
- 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
- Women and gay people are the litmus test of whether a society is democratic and respecting human rights. We are the canaries in the mine. -- Peter Tatchell
- 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
- Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her. -- Sarah Waters
- 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
- 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
- Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow wings), the chesty preening of redbirds and bluebirds, the blackbird with the red-tipped wings like startling epaulets. -- Terry Kay
- 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
- If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti. -- Paul Farmer
- The smell of that buttered toast simply spoke to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cozy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender; of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries. -- Kenneth Grahame
- Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas. -- David Suzuki
- The song of canaries Never varies, And when they're moulting They're pretty revolting. -- Ogden Nash
- A tom cat hijacked a plane, stuck a pistol into the pilot's ribs and demanded: 'Take me to the canaries'. -- Bob Monkhouse
- Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions. -- Jaron Lanier
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