
“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
A collection of quotes on the topic of crow, likeness, people, black.
“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
Quoted in Vine Deloria, God Is Red: A Native View of Religion. Golden, Colo: Fulcrum Pub, 2003, cited to Virginia Armstrong, I have spoken; American history through the voices of the Indians. Chicago, Sage Books, 1971.
Commencement Address at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/DCPD-200900360/html/DCPD-200900360.htm (13 May 2009)
2009
Regarding the treatment of former Confederate soldiers. In Richmond, Virginia (April 4, 1865), as quoted in Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War https://archive.org/download/incidentsanecdot00port/incidentsanecdot00port.pdf (1885), by David Dixon Porter, p. 312
1860s, Tour of Richmond (1865)
Babur-Nama, translated into English by A.S. Beveridge, New Delhi reprint, 1979, pp. 572-73
2016, Memorial Service for Fallen Dallas Police Officers (July 2016)
Fragment iv.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments
2015, Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney (June 2015)
Context: For too long, we were blind to the pain that the Confederate flag stirred in too many of our citizens. It’s true, a flag did not cause these murders. But as people from all walks of life, Republicans and Democrats, now acknowledge -- including Governor Haley, whose recent eloquence on the subject is worthy of praise as we all have to acknowledge, the flag has always represented more than just ancestral pride. For many, black and white, that flag was a reminder of systemic oppression and racial subjugation. We see that now. Removing the flag from this state’s capitol would not be an act of political correctness; it would not be an insult to the valor of Confederate soldiers. It would simply be an acknowledgment that the cause for which they fought -- the cause of slavery -- was wrong -- the imposition of Jim Crow after the Civil War, the resistance to civil rights for all people was wrong. It would be one step in an honest accounting of America’s history; a modest but meaningful balm for so many unhealed wounds. It would be an expression of the amazing changes that have transformed this state and this country for the better, because of the work of so many people of goodwill, people of all races striving to form a more perfect union. By taking down that flag, we express God’s grace.
“Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.”
Source: Peter and Wendy (1911), Ch. 17
Context: The last thing he ever said to me was, "Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing."
Closing words from his last speech, Vanderbilt University (April 1989).
Context: In the nineteen-sixties, apartheid was driven out of America. Legal segregation — Jim Crow — ended. We didn't end racism, but we ended legal segregation. We ended the idea that you can send a million soldiers ten thousand miles away to fight in a war that people do not support. We ended the idea that women are second-class citizens. Now, it doesn't matter who sits in the Oval Office. But the big battles that were won in that period of civil war and strife you cannot reverse. We were young, we were reckless, arrogant, silly, headstrong … and we were right! I regret nothing!
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings
“The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.”
Variant: Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but i feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people then i feel on my owm.
" Dust of Snow http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=173526" (1923)
General sources
“The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 39
“Before Peter Pan belonged to Wendy he belonged to the girl with the crow feather in her hair”
Source: Tiger Lily
Source: The Serpent's Tale
Along Came a Dog (1958)
Gerard Jackson, "The Party of Lincoln vs. the Democrats' hate machine" http://brookesnews.com/080906dems.html (9 June 2008), BrookesNews.
Quote from Werefkin's letter to Alexej von Jawlensky, 1910 Lithuanian Martynas-Mazvydas-National Library, Vilnius, RS (F19-1458,1.31) as reprinted in Weidle, Marianne Werefkin, Die Farbe beisst mich ans Herz, 108; as quoted in 'Identity and Reminiscence in Marianne Werefkin's Return Home', c. 1909; Adrienne Kochman http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/spring06/52-spring06/spring06article/171-ambiguity-of-home-identity-and-reminiscence-in-marianne-werefkins-return-home-c-1909
1906 - 1911
Here Be Dragons (1985), Book 1
Defending Those Who Know http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/defending-those-who-know_b_7517.html; "Jim" is a reference to Jim Crow laws.
All You Fascists (1944) https://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/All_You_Fascists.htm
Similes for Two Political Characters of 1819 http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/shelley/percy_bysshe/s54cp/section163.html (Published 1832), st. 4
“The light comes brighter from the east; the caw
Of restive crows is sharper on the ear.”
"The Light Comes Brighter," ll. 1-2
Open House (1941)
Groatsworth of Wit; cited from William Shakespeare (ed. Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller) The Complete Works (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2002) p. xlvii.
Probably the earliest reference to Shakespeare as a figure in the theatrical world.
GQ Interview (2005)
Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women, Beijing China (1995)
Journal of the Unknown Scholar, entry for the Feast of Freia, 1000 NE
(27 October 2009)
The Quality You Need Most, from Green Book Magazine (April 1914)
“I want to ask America: What does crow taste like? Because y'all are eating it.”
To doubters of the Baltimore Ravens' chances to defeat the Oakland Raiders in the 2000 AFC Championship Game Cimini, Rich. "Defense All The Rave Shackles Raiders In Super Showing," Daily News (New York City), Monday, January 15, 2001. http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2001/01/15/2001-01-15_defense_all_the_rave_shackle.html
2000s, The Central Idea (2006)
“A distance “as the crow flies” is significant only to crows.”
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 11, “Through the Cargo Hatch” (p. 111)
As quoted in Michael Scheuer's Non-Intervention https://archive.is/QBuxT (22 June 2015), by M. Scheuer.
2010s
Bruce Bartlett, "Whitewash" http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122513867582273213 (December 2007), The Wall Street Journal
2000s
Hurry Home, Candy (1953)
§ 4
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Letter http://books.google.com/books?vid=0Fz_zz_wSWAiVg9LI1&id=vvVVhCadyK4C&pg=PA192&vq=%22impeachment+is+an+impracticable+thing%22&dq=%22jeffersons+works%22 to Thomas Ritchie (25 December 1820)
1820s
The Warrior from The London Literary Gazette (25th October 1823) Sketch
The Improvisatrice (1824)
"Adventures of Isabel" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/adventures-of-isabel/
About the capture of Bhimnagar, Tarikh Yamini (Kitabu-l Yamini) by Al Utbi, in Elliot and Dowson, Vol. II : Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians, 8 Volumes, Allahabad Reprint, 1964. p. 34-35 Also quoted in Jain, Meenakshi (2011). The India they saw: Foreign accounts.
Quotes (971 CE to 1013 CE)
“And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.”
First Week, First Day.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
On Barbara Cartland
'Wedding of the century'
Essays and reviews, Glued to the Box (1983)
Quote in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, pp. 24-25
1920's, My life (1922)
Along Came a Dog (1958)
“I am the black crow king,
Keeper of the forgotten corn,
The King!”
Song lyrics, The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), Black Crow King
"A case of black self-sabatoge" (31 July 2013)
2010s
July 11, 1851
Journals (1838-1859)
Source: The development of intelligence in children, 1916, p. 64
Alleghany Corp. v. Breswick & Co., 353 U.S. 151, 170 (1957).
Judicial opinions
“"As the crow flies"—a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.”
Stokes v. Grissell (1854), 23 L. J. Rep. Part 7 (N. S.), Com. PL 144.
Source: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Four, The Politics Of Business, p. 92
Source: 2000s, Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past (2008), p. xiii
Source: Mathematical Lectures (1734), p. 388
§ 194-202
Pali Canon, Sutta Pitaka, Khuddaka Nikaya (Minor Collection), Sutta Nipata (Suttas falling down)
Hadith - Bukhari 4:531, Narrated by 'Aisha
Sunni Hadith
Referring to the Bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.
Source: M. King, Death of the Rainbow Warrior (1986), p. 200.
Remarks at the funeral of Rosa Parks (3 November 2005).[citation needed]
Julie Burchill (2003) "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/feb/01/iraq.comment Why we should go to war" The Guardian, 1 February 2003
Source: Stamping Butterflies (2004), Chapter 53 (p. 323)
“I suppose when there's no more room for another crow's-foot, one attains a sort of peace?”
Valmouth (1918), cited from The Complete Ronald Firbank (London: Duckworth, 1961) p. 448.
Interview with Locus magazine (November 2005)
“Without doubt
I can teach crowing: for I gobble.”
Sans doute
Je peux apprendre à coqueriquer: je glougloute.
Act I, Sc. 2
Chantecler (1910)
kaḥ kau ke kekakekākaḥ kākakākākakaḥ kakaḥ ।
kākaḥ kākaḥ kakaḥ kākaḥ kukākaḥ kākakaḥ kukaḥ ॥
Śrībhārgavarāghavīyam
“My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow:
Don't never prophesy — onless ye know.”
No. 2.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Extract from the title poem Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana [Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems, Defintion Press, (1957)]
Galen, on Diogenes's views on the ignorant rich, in Exhortation to Study the Arts, Wakefield (1796), p. 217; cf. Stobaeus, iv. 31b. 48.
Latter day attributions