Cuckoo

Famous quotes containing the word cuckoo:

“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)

“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)

“He was but as the cuckoo is in June,
Heard, not regarded.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)