Common Cuckoo Eggs

Famous quotes containing the words common, cuckoo and/or eggs:

    “They sang, but had not human tunes nor words,
    Though all was done in common as before;

    They had changed their throats and had the throats of birds.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

    “The common cormorant or shag
    Lays eggs inside a paper bag.”
    —Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986)