If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she’d end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.
Charlie Asher: Mrs. Ling, is that duck wearing trousers? Mrs. Ling: Could be. . . . You hear of paper-wrap chicken? This duck in pants.
I find a duck's opinion of me is very much influenced by whether or not I have bread.
I'm an expert cook when it comes to preparing the quail, ducks, geese and wild turkeys that I hunt on the farm.
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
The American system itself is incapable. It's, it is as incapable of producing freedom for the Afro-American as a, as the system of a chicken is of producing a duck egg.
A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.
I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation?
I liked Bugs Bunny. He was pretty good. He's annoying as a duck and he's anti-proletarian. Daffy Duck I couldn't see what was going on with him. He seemed like he was angry about something. My favorite one though is Pinocchio. I liked that kid. He was made of wood. I liked that for a start. I also liked how he'd tell a lie and his nose would grow. I liked the morality of that.
You walk like a duck with a wet diaper on. '' Anita Blake Vampire Hunter
I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind.
For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;. . . but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.
Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate.
Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?" "They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.
I like the Valentino store in Rome. Because in Rome when I'd be riding my bike, that store is right next to the Spanish Steps, and it gets so crowded there, so I could sometimes duck into the Valentino store and go up to the top floor and have a little espresso and just relax and take it easy.
Only one pair was still battling, apparently unaware of the new arrival. Harry saw Sirius duck Bellatrix's jet of red light: he was laughing at her. 'Come on, you can do better than that!' he yelled, his voice echoing around the cavernous room. The second jet of light hit him squarely in the chest. The laughter had not quite died from his face, but his eyes widened in shock.
For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which, as she neared them, grew larger and larger in her arms, until it became a whole life, a complete life, which she put down by them and said, "This is what I have made of it! This!" And what had she made of it? What, indeed?
Never trust a duck" - Will Herondale "We are bound, you and I, over the divide of death, down through whatever generations may come. Forever. " - Will Herondale
The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the eyes follow you around the room.
Honey, I forgot to duck