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Parrots Quotes

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.398, Courier Corporation

Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.

"Bonzo Dog Band". Interview with Richie Unterberger, www.furious.com. January 2001.

I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.

Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage.

Sylvia Plath (2010). “The Colossus”, p.71, Faber & Faber

I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.

"Sandra Cisneros writes fable for grieving grown-ups". Interview with Cindy Y. Rodriguez, www.cnn.com. October 23, 2012.

What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.

"Neil deGrasse Tyson On Literacy, Curiosity, Education, And Being 'In Your Face'". Interview with Linda Holmes, www.npr.org. February 25, 2010.