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  • I mean, m-m-m-my you're like pelican fly

    Song   Mean   Pelicans  
    Song: Super Bass, Album: Pink Friday
  • A pelican that is wet walks with a gated limp, but a dry fish swims alone.

    Swim   Dry   Pelicans  
  • And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the crimson afterglow of the sunset, or a myriad terns flashing in the bright light of midday as they hover in a shifting maze above the beach -- why, the loss is like the loss of a gallery of the masterpieces of the artists of old time.

    Beach   Sunset   Loss  
    Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”
  • Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!

    Nature   Otters   Crow  
  • Below me Rontu was running along the cliffs barking at the screaming gulls. Pelicans were chattering as they finished the blue water. But suddenly I thought of Tutok, and the island seemed very quiet.

    Running   Islands   Blue  
  • I said excuse me you're a hell of a guy, I mean my my my my you're like pelican fly!

    Flirty   Mean   Guy  
    Song: Original Super Bass, Album: Pink Friday
  • Why, Jon, why?" his mother asked. "Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the alhatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers!" "I don't mind being bone and feathers mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know.

    Mom   Mother   Son  
  • Will you look at us by the river! The whole restless mob of us on spread blankets in the dreamy briny sunshine skylarking and chiacking about for one day, one clear, clean, sweet day in a good world in the midst of our living. Yachts run before an unfelt gust with bagnecked pelicans riding above them, the city their twitching backdrop, all blocks and points of mirror light down to the water's edge.

    Running   Sweet   Block  
    Tim Winton (2014). “Cloudstreet: Picador Classic”, p.9, Pan Macmillan
  • Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and strong, is also largely pneumatic - especially in the bigger birds. The beak, skull, feet, and all the other bones of a 25-pound pelican have been found to weigh but 23 ounces.

    Guy Murchie (2016). “Song of the Sky”, p.220, Pickle Partners Publishing
  • A lot of guys like to go to the beach and bring a crowd, but not me. I like to be alone and out there with a couple of pelicans.

    Beach   Couple   Guy  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.

  • Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.

    Long   Pelicans   Prime  
    James Montgomery (1827). “The Pelican Island, and other poems”, p.49
  • A wonderful bird is a pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week; But I'm damned if I see how the helican.

    Animal   Bird   Cooking  
    "The Pelican". Poem by Dixon Lanier Merritt, 1910.
  • I like a lot of metal music. So that's really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot of kind of off the cuff, like I love artists like Santigold, or Gold Frapp. Yeah. Pelican. Yeah.

    Artist   Gold   Cuffs  
    Interview with Geneva S. Thomas, www.ebony.com. June 6, 2012.
  • He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

    Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.264, Simon and Schuster
  • The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else.

  • Jesus Lord, kind Pelican, Cleanse my filth with Thy blood, One drop of which can save The whole world from all its sin

    Jesus   Blood   Filth  
  • A new poll found that 43 percent of Americans think President Obama is doing a good job at handling the BP oil spill. Of course, the same poll found that 43 percent of Americans hate pelicans.

    Jobs   Hate   Thinking  
  • We have a slate of four films. From Karen Young - the USA bestselling author - we have Blood Bayou. Again, we're relying on the story to tell itself and the characters tell it and not (relying on) shock value. It's a suspenseful drama...The best way I can describe it is Pelican Brief meets Time to Kill.

    Drama   Character   Blood  
    Source: www.beliefnet.com
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