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You might be a redneck if your parakeet knows the phrase Open up, Police! -- Jeff Foxworthy
Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct. -- Christopher Cokinos
Above the forest of the parakeets, A parakeet of parakeets prevails, A pip of life amid a mort of tails. -- Wallace Stevens
Tom Ridge now says we don't have to run out and put plastic sheets all over the house. Great, tell that to my dead parakeet. -- Craig Kilborn
Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer. -- Janet Fitch
On top of all that, look at this guy? I mean he's a idiot, he's 7 feet of pure idiot. You put his brain in a parakeet... zing! It'll fly backwards. -- Dwayne Johnson
I read, for the first time, of the Carolina Parakeet-a North American parakeet whose green, yellow and reddish-orange plumage appeared vivacious and altogether quite wonderful. As stunning as I found the hawk-chased conures, this bird astounded me even more. That the Carolina Parakeet was extinct simply added to my amazement. -- Christopher Cokinos
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its teeth were bad, its hair gray and unkempt. While beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer. -- Janet Fitch
You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight birds. You just hoped they came out of the nest box looking all right. I'm like a swan at the moment. I look fine on top of the water but under the water my little legs are going mad. -- Ian Holloway
I grew up with two different parakeets - one that lived for five years, and one that lived for 13 years - so I always had a bit of an attraction to birds and it's an oddly good fit to be in a movie about birdwatchers. -- Jim Parsons

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