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Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone. -- Karl Pilkington
Well, I play Jews and parrots. Parrots are how I've branched out. -- Gilbert Gottfried
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish -- Chevy Chase
Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish. -- Chevy Chase
I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots! -- Michael Landon
The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am. -- Steve Irwin
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does." -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action. -- Swami Vivekananda
Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites. -- Steve Irwin
Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be! -- William Morris Hunt
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. -- Winston Churchill
Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle
I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it. -- Brion James
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. -- Emily Dickinson
Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder. -- Neil Innes
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip. -- Billy Graham
I bet the sparrow looks at the parrot and thinks, yes, you can talk, but LISTEN TO YOURSELF! -- Jack Handey
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. -- Will Rogers
If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. -- Mark Twain
The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble. -- Winston Churchill
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. -- Sakya Pandita
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. -- Joseph Conrad
I had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence. -- Peter Ustinov
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. -- Marie Corelli
Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs. -- Salma Hayek
India was a sensation. It was remarkable to see all those parrots flying about, the brilliant foliage and the brilliant sky. It was a tremendous pageant. I never noticed the poverty. -- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life. -- Ingrid Newkirk
I think airlines have been very much parrots. They'll just follow what everyone else is doing. Why change a model that they're happy in? And it takes someone like myself or Richard Branson who comes from outside the industry to say, 'Hey, let's try something new.' -- Tony Fernandes
People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are. -- Voltaire
In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots. -- Tommy Douglas
The family is on its way out; couples go next; then no more keeping cats or parrots. -- Mason Cooley
People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots. -- Robert Anton Wilson
O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living. -- Fanny Fern
Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots call and swing. My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud. -- William Butler Yeats
I have a deep-seated respect for parrots. As gifted as I am with all other wildlife, parrots have this uncanny desire to kill me. I'm not sure why, but they're like my kryptonite! -- Steve Irwin
I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether boys or girls, anything but little parrots and small calculating machines. -- Charles Dickens

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