crane quotes

[They] will fearlessly commit both parties to favor mother love and the protection of the whooping crane, and to oppose the man-eating shark and the more unpopular forms of sin.

- David McClure Brinkley
Of party platforms. Quoted in Marc Gunther The House That Roone Built (1994).

Jane, Jane, Tall as a crane, The morning light creaks down again.

- Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
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