American Black Vulture

Famous quotes containing the words american, black and/or vulture:

    “The women’s liberation movement at this point in history makes the American Communist Party of the 1930s look like a monolith.”
    —Nora Ephron (b. 1941)

    “Thee for my recitative,
    Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day
    declining,
    Thee in thy panoply, thy measur’d dual throbbing and thy beat
    convulsive,
    Thy black cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel,”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous for its prey.”
    —Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)