Cuckoos Quotes

“Billy here has been talkin' about slicin' his wrists again, so is there seven of you guys who'd like to join him and make it therapeutic?”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“The behavior of the pigeon
is beyond reproach,
but the mountain cuckoo?”
― Yosa Buson, Haiku Master Buson

“A wall of forest looms above
and sweetly the blackbird sings;
all the birds make melody
over me and my books and things.

There sings to me the cuckoo
from bush-citadels in grey hood.

God's doom! May the Lord protect me
writing well, under the great wood.”
― Priscian

“A flock of black birds flew by, screeching loudly. Passing through he clouds, they soared into the distant sky. "Do you know what kind of birds those are?" I asked. "They're a type of cuckoo," Honda said. "In Australia, they're called rainbirds. They're thought to sing before stormy weather--it has something to do with their migration patterns." So those were rainbirds.”
― Clarissa Goenawan, Rainbirds