Common Cuckoo Eggs

Famous quotes containing the words common, cuckoo and/or eggs:

“When we are high and airy hundreds say
That if we hold that flight they’ll leave the place,
While those same hundreds mock another day
Because we have made our art of common things ...”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“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 clock style of architecture.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

“The common cormorant or shag
Lays eggs inside a paper bag.”
—Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986)