Quotes about parrot
A collection of quotes on the topic of parrot, people, use, likeness.
Quotes about parrot
"I'm Sorry"
Lyrics, Happy Hour (1992)

12 October 1492; This entire passage is directly quoted from Columbus in the summary by Bartolomé de Las Casas
Journal of the First Voyage

“The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not”
which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.
par. 51 p.46
Psychology and Alchemy (1952)

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings

“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”
Variant: Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

“People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.”
Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage.”

“A real Christian is the one who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.”

“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”

A Message from the Governor
HuckPAC
2008-08-23
http://www.huckpac.com/?Fuseaction=Blogs.View&Blog_id=1848&CommentPage=5
2011-03-01

On playing multiple characters in her television shows
"Ullman, By Hook & By 'Crooks'" http://www.nydailynews.com/ullman-hook-crooks-tracey-tireless-efforts-landed-role-woody-allen-leading-lady-article-1.859726 (NY Daily News, 14 May 2000)
“I had a parrot. The parrot talked, but it did not say "I'm hungry", so it died.”
Mitch All Together (2003)
The Pageant of Life (1964), On Teachers & Education

Dialogue between Hans Arp and Kurt Schwitters, (1956) with introduction in: Franz Müllers Drahtfrühling-- Memories of Kurt Schwitters; as quoted in I is Style, ed. Siegfried Gohr & Gunda Luyken, commissioned by w:Rudi Fuchs, 2000, pp. 139-140
1950s

Speech to Conservative Party Conference (12 October 1990) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108217. Partially quoting from Monty Python's Dead Parrot Sketch https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus#Dead_Parrot_Sketch.
Third term as Prime Minister
“Poetry in a Dry Season”, p. 35
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)

“A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots.”
Note to Mirabeau, speaking of France, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), "France", p. 294.

TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Mind Control (1999–2000) or Inside Your Mind on DVD

"Is Diversity Driving A Decline in White Population?" http://www.wnd.com/2018/04/the-decline-of-u-s-whites-and-not-just-in-number/ WND, April 19, 2018
2010s, 2018

As cited in Country of My Skull, Antjie Krog, Random House, p. 270

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Happiness

You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)

John Ramsay McCulloch (1848; 156), cited in: Roderick Floud, et al. (2014), The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, Volume 1. p. 363
Republicans are already making it clear: Trump can do whatever he wants (December 5, 2016)

“In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots.”
In response to Canadians policy on the Vietnam War, House of Commons, "Debates", 13 February 1967.

Source: Attributed, Poems of Sadness: The Erotic Verse of the Sixth Dalai Lama Tsangyang Gyatso tr. Paul Williams 2004, p.61

“I will not be a slave to my yesterday. I am creator, not a parrot.”
Letter quoted in The West Going Heart (1959) by Eleonor Ruggles

"Extreme Pornography Law in the UK" (2010) http://stallman.org/articles/extreme.html
2010s

2006-12-29
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2006/12/our_short_national_nightmare.html
Our Short National Nightmare
Slate
1091-2339
referencing a quote by Gerald Ford
2000s, 2006
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)

1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)

Memorial dedication (1902)
Afterword to his short story "The Children's Story" (1963).
The Children's Story (1982)
Context: I asked all kinds of people of every age, "You know the 'I pledge allegiance…'" but before I could finish, at once they would all parrot it, the words almost always equally blurred. In every case discovered that not one teacher, ever — or anyone — had ever explained the words to any one of them. Everyone just had to learn it to say it. The Children's Story came into being that day. It was then that I realized how completely vulnerable my child's mind was — any mind for that matter — under controlled circumstances. Normally I write and rewrite and re-rewrite, but this story came quickly — almost by itself. Barely three words were changed. It pleases me greatly because it keeps asking me questions … Questions like what's the use of "I pledge allegiance" without understanding? Like why is it so easy to divert thoughts and implant others? Like what is freedom and why is it so hard to explain? The Children's Story keeps asking me all sorts of questions I cannot answer. Perhaps you can — then your children will…

Pt. I
Under Western Eyes (1911)
Context: Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. 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.

His daughter when he became President and moved to live in the Rashtrapathi Bhavan, in: p. 339.
About Zakir Hussain, Quest for Truth (1999)

Quote in Dali's letter to his art-friend Lorca, 1927; as quoted in Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War, Robin Adèle Greeley, p. 67
Dali is striving then for a rational approach of his paintings; he is very probably referring to his painting, he made earlier in 1927: ' Little Ashes' https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Little_Ashes.jpg
Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1920 - 1930

“I have a parrot. It can say 'sovereignty to all the people' in Portuguese.”
Noam Chomsky: Coronavirus - What is at stake? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-N3In2rLI4 | Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) Mar 28, 2020
Quotes 2010s, 2020, Coronavirus - What is at stake?

Catholic Church: synthetic cell potentially a good development but life originates from God https://www.foxnews.com/world/catholic-church-synthetic-cell-potentially-a-good-development-but-life-originates-from-god (May 21, 2010)

Aristocrats of Spirit, in: Eseji IV, p.76 (Zora, 1963)
Essays