Woodpecker Quotes (4 quotes)

“A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: banana, criticism, envy, gorilla, jealousy, lion, monkey, nightingale, sheep, suzy-kassem, woodpecker

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“It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: animosity, annoy, annoyance, annoying, attitude, bird, bitter, bitterness, competitive, confidence, courage, criticize, drive, envious, envy, faith, focus, gossip, greatness, hate, haters, hyena, ignore, insult, intrude, intruder, intrusion, intrusive, jealous, jealousy, judge, laugh, laughter, life, mock, mockery, negative, negativity, nightingale, nightingales, perseverance, persevere, personality, positive, positive-attitude, positivity, ridicule, small, small-minds, song, strength, strong, success, successful-people, ugly, woodpecker, woodpeckers

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“Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when wishing apparently no longer led to anything, and Leigh-Cheri eventually named it Prince Charming after that son-of-a-bitch who never comes though.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

tags: life, still, with, woodpecker

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“Outside, the rains had come, the rains that like a blizzard of guppies would pelt the creaky old house until spring. There is no weeping that can compete with the northwest rains.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

tags: crying, guppies, rain, rains, sadness, seattle, weeping, woodpecker

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