Cuckoos Quotes

“Billy here has been talkin' about slicin' his wrists again, so is there seven of you guys who'd like to join him and make it therapeutic?”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“They set off through the soft lingering light. One cuckoo in the depths of Layer Wood and one in the dense shrubbery of the Dower House were keeping up their eternal question and answer, and in the comparative coolness which had come with the evening all the scents of summer had magnified.”
― Norah Lofts, Afternoon of an Autocrat

“The behavior of the pigeon
is beyond reproach,
but the mountain cuckoo?”
― Yosa Buson, Haiku Master Buson

“A wall of forest looms above
and sweetly the blackbird sings;
all the birds make melody
over me and my books and things.

There sings to me the cuckoo
from bush-citadels in grey hood.

God's doom! May the Lord protect me
writing well, under the great wood.”
― Priscian

“A flock of black birds flew by, screeching loudly. Passing through he clouds, they soared into the distant sky. "Do you know what kind of birds those are?" I asked. "They're a type of cuckoo," Honda said. "In Australia, they're called rainbirds. They're thought to sing before stormy weather--it has something to do with their migration patterns." So those were rainbirds.”
― Clarissa Goenawan, Rainbirds