pigeons quotes

I'm old fashioned. I don't believe in extra-marital relationships. I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics.

-Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg Allen
  Manhattan (with Marshall Brickman).

   Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat

- e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings cummings
  Tulips and Chimneys,'Portraits', no.8.

Poorpeoplestaying intheir houses aslong astill thevery fire touched them, and then running into boats or clambering from one pair of stair by the waterside to another. And among other things, the poor pigeons I perceive were loath to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconies till they were some of them burned, their wings, and fell down.

- Samuel Pepys
  Diary entry, 2 Sep.The Great Fire of London continued for four days, destroying four-fifths of the total area of the city.

Pigeons on the grass alas.

- Gertrude Stein
  Four Saints inThreeActs, act 3, sc.2.

And, in the isolation of the sky, At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink, Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

-Wallace Stevens
  Harmonium,'Sunday Morning', pt.8.