“Not every pigeon is a rat with wings. Not every rat with wings is a dove of peace.”
Giannina Braschi (1953) Puerto Rican writer
During the Olympic Games opening ceremony. herald.ie http://www.herald.ie/news/irelands-other-big-games-winner-jimmy-magee-3196108.html <br class="br">Olympic Games
“Not every pigeon is a rat with wings. Not every rat with wings is a dove of peace.”
Giannina Braschi (1953) Puerto Rican writer
Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888–1957) Medal of Honor recipient and United States Navy officer
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.”
Michael Haneke (1942) Austrian film director and screenwriter
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
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Four Saints in Three Acts (1927)
Operas and Plays (1932)
Wang Qishan (1948) Chinese politician
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-”
Mo Willems Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
Source: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
Alfred de Zayas (1947) American United Nations official
2013 <br class="br">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”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Variant: Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary