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cuckoo
«A rainbow and a cuckoo's song / May never come together again; / May never come / This side the tomb.»
«In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.»
Author: Orson Welles
| Keywords:
bloodshed, brotherly, brotherly love, clock, cuckoo, cuckoos, cuckoo clock, das, da Vinci, five hundred, Italy, Leonardo, Leonardo da, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Renaissance, Switzerland, the Renaissance, Thirty Years, warfare
«In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Country,
Democracy,
Peace
| Keywords:
brotherly, brotherly love, cuckoo, cuckoos, cuckoo clock, five hundred, Switzerland
«Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo style of architecture.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| About:
Architecture
| Keywords:
brown, cuckoo, cuckoos, hotels, sideways, steep, stuck, Switzerland, up and down
«Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear,Unpleasing to a married ear!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
cuckoo, cuckoos, ear, unpleasing
«He was but as the cuckoo is in June,Heard, not regarded.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
cuckoo, cuckoos, June, regarded
«No Nightingale did ever chant More welcome notes to weary bands Of travelers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands: A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebri»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| Keywords:
Arabian, Arabians, chants, cuckoo, nightingale, shady, The Silence, thrilling