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«A rainbow and a cuckoo's song / May never come together again; / May never come / This side the tomb.»
«And hear the pleasant cuckoo, loud and long - / The simple bird that thinks two notes a song.»
Author: William Henry Davies
| Keywords:
cuckoos
«In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.»
Author: Orson Welles
| Keywords:
bloodshed, brotherly, brotherly love, clock, cuckoo, cuckoos, cuckoo clock, das, da Vinci, five hundred, Italy, Leonardo, Leonardo da, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Renaissance, Switzerland, the Renaissance, Thirty Years, warfare
«In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Country,
Democracy,
Peace
| Keywords:
brotherly, brotherly love, cuckoo, cuckoos, cuckoo clock, five hundred, Switzerland
«The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ascetics, cuckoos, devotions, notes, noting
«The cuckoos remain silent for a long time (for several seasons) until they are able to sing sweetly (in the Spring ) so as to give joy to all.»
«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 style of architecture.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| About:
Architecture
| Keywords:
brown, cuckoo, cuckoos, hotels, sideways, steep, stuck, Switzerland, up and down
«This is the weather the cuckoo likes / And so do I.»
«Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear,Unpleasing to a married ear!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
cuckoo, cuckoos, ear, unpleasing
«He was but as the cuckoo is in June,Heard, not regarded.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
cuckoo, cuckoos, June, regarded
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