Common Cuckoo Eggs

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

    “We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.”
    —Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

    “The cuckoo is a lazy bird,
    She never builds a nest,
    She makes herself busy
    By singing to the rest.”
    —Unknown. The Cuckoo (l. 9–12)

    “Nothing is so beautiful as spring—
    When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
    Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
    Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
    The ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)