OBS! not from "The Crow"
A Crow Myth:
One's bad,
Two's luck,
Three's health,
Four's wealth,
Five's sickness,
Six is death.
"Method is more important than strength . . . By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed to have a passerby kill the snake for the beads."
- Siddha Nagarjuna<
"We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship."
- John Lennon
"It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the living."
- Antisthenes
"The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the crow."
- William Blake
"As the old cock crows, so crows the young."
- Unknown
Gascoigne's Good Morrow
The carrion crow, that loathsome beast,
Which cries against the rain,
Both for her hue and for the rest,
The Devil resembleth plain:
And as with guns we will kill the crow,
For spoiling our relief,
The Devil so must we overthrow,
With gunshot of belief.
- George Gascoigne<
Henry Ward Beecher
"If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home."
William Shakespeare
"Light thickens, and the Crow Makes Wing toth' Rookie Wood."
"If a crow help vs in, sirra, wee'll plucke a crow together."
Charlotte Bronte
"I like Thornfield, its antiquity, its retirement, its old crow-trees and thorn-trees."
As black as a crow (English)
The crow thinks its own bird fairest (English)
To eat crow (American)
To have a crow to pluck (or pull) with someone (English)
As the crow flies (English)
Stone (or stiffen)the crows (Australian)
crow-bait A worn-out horse
crow-boy, crow-herd, crow-keeper, crow-minder
The predecessor to the scarecrow; a boy hired to chase crows away.
crow-bed A term used to describe an impure bed of mineral, such as limestone, coal, chert and the like. Crow-gold would be another term for pyrite.
crow-eater A person lazy enough to eat anything rather than work.
crow-fig The fruit of the nux vomica tree.
crows'-meat Roadkill, carrion, leftovers - food for crows.
crow-pick The person who sorts stones and miscellany from coal.
crow-tree A tree in a rookery of crows.