Common Cuckoo Eggs

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

“The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

“He was but as the cuckoo is in June,
Heard, not regarded.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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