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Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want. -- Kevin Nealon
Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls. -- Amy Lowell
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. -- W. Somerset Maugham
I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all. -- Debbie Harry
Do you blame a vulture for perching over a carcass? -- Chinua Achebe
Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics. -- Libba Bray
I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn't end there. -- Groucho Marx
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature. -- Plutarch
At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture. -- Vance Havner
You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all. -- Isaac Asimov
Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture. -- Abraham Cowley
God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates. -- Herman Melville
Here is a list of terrible things, The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings The rabid bite of the dogs of war, The voice of one who went before, But most of all the mirror's gaze, Which counts us out our numbered days. -- Clive Barker
If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if you're serious about adopting the vulture. -- Jack Handey
Man must get back to himself before he can learn his relation to his fellows. Prometheus chained to the Rock of Ages is doomed to remain the prey of the vultures of darkness. Unbind Prometheus, and you dispel the night and its horrors. -- Emma Goldman
on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies. -- Marya Mannes
Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark,--open the door, and it is off forever. The bird that roams through the sky and the groves unrestrained knows how to dodge the hawk and protect itself; but the caged one, the moment it leaves its bars and bolts behind, is pounced upon by the fowler or the vulture. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
By the time I got to kindergarten, I was surprised to find out I was the only kid with a turkey vulture. -- Jean Craighead George
It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The one term I don't like to be called is a 'vulture.' Because to me, a vulture is a kind of asset-stripper that eats dead flesh off the bones of a dead creature. Our bird should be the phoenix, the bird that reinvents itself, recreates itself from its ashes. And that's much closer to what it is that we really do. -- Wilbur Ross
If she can bite a vulture, she can jump a crack.~Victor Frankenstein -- Kenneth Oppel
A giant vulture with a girl hanging from its feet tends to attract attention. -- Rick Riordan
An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture. -- Christopher Moore
He groaned slightly and winced like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Fear the vulture and the vulture will come. Fear nothing and you are the vulture. -- Suzy Kassem
Someone said to me, "How's your rabbit food?" I said, "Fine." ... "How's your vulture food?" -- Doug Graham
Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove. -- Ralph Ellison
I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge. -- John Gregory Dunne
The hardest animal was the vulture. But the horses were great, the dog was great [in Valley of Violence]. It was really easy. -- Ti West
If you ask my dad for help... he'll help. Like a vulture helps an over-run armadillo on a Texas highway. One peck at the time. -- Christopher Titus
To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool. -- Ian Fleming
Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height. -- Edward Abbey
Brother Preptil, the master of the music, had described Brutha's voice as putting him in mind of a disappointed vulture arriving too late at the dead donkey. -- Terry Pratchett
Prometheus, I have no Titan's might, Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart, For daytime's vulture talons tear apart The tender alcoves built by love at night. -- Philip Jose Farmer
Prometheus, I have no Titan's might, Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart, For daytime's vulture talons tear apart The tender alcoves built by love at night. -- Philip Jose Farmer
Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilisation than other creatures, and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena. -- H. Jay Dinshah
Teach the student what needs to be taught. 'Cause black and white kids both take shorts When one doesn't know about the other one's culture, Ignorance swoops down like a vulture. -- KRS-One
â??"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey -- Edward Abbey

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