“Not every pigeon is a rat with wings. Not every rat with wings is a dove of peace.”
“And there it is, the international symbol of peace – the pigeon!”
During the Olympic Games opening ceremony. herald.ie http://www.herald.ie/news/irelands-other-big-games-winner-jimmy-magee-3196108.html
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Statement made during International Geophysical Year (IGY) operations in 1957, inscribed on the Byrd Memorial at McMurdo Station, Antartica

“Consider the pigeon just a pigeon...There are lots of pigeons in Paris.”
On the meaning of pigeons in his movies, "Michael Haneke talks about Amour http://www.afc.at/jart/prj3/afc/main.jart?content-id=1164272180506&artikel_id=1332442011817 16 January 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140116073823/http://www.afc.at/jart/prj3/afc/main.jart?content-id=1164272180506&artikel_id=1332442011817,, interview by Karin Schiefer, Austrian Film Commission, May 2012

Four Saints in Three Acts (1927)
Operas and Plays (1932)

“Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.”

Source: "World cannot shut China out, vice president says, in jab at U.S." in Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-diplomacy/world-cannot-shut-china-out-vice-president-says-in-jab-at-u-s-idUSKCN1U303U (7 July 2019)

“I bet your mom would let me."
-Pigeon, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus-”
Source: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

2013
Source: United Nations General Assembly - Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/IntOrder/A-68-284_en.pdf.

“Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting”
Variant: Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary