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“[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique.”
― Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men

“If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.”
― William James

“I don't want your prayers', he said.
'What do you want then?'
The old answers came easily to mind. Money. Vengeance. Jordie's voice in my head silenced forever. But a different reply roared to life inside him, loud, insistent, and unwelcome. You, Inej. You.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Crows are ferociously intelligent birds. I used to watch them gather as the men set off for another day of war. Drums, pipes, trumpets, the rhythmical pounding of swords on shields—to the fighters, this music meant honour, glory, courage, comradeship…To the crows, it only ever meant food.”
― Pat Barker, The Women of Troy

“I wish you could see what I do. I can hear every body on this ship, the blood rushing through their veins. I can here the change in Kaz's breathing when he looks at you... It catches every time, like he's never seen you before.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“We don't need the victim's entrails for their own sake, only for the sake of the signs they convey. And we don't worship the crow or the raven -- we worship God who communicates by means of them.”
― Epictetus

“Outside the window the thin moon stood upright in a deep sky, like the paring of a finger-nail for magic, and against the sky the weather vane of the carrion crow with arrow in mouth pointed it's arrow to the south”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“The manor ravens were on the move. One by one, they glided across the lawn and took up posts in the trees that fringed the property. It was rare to see so many at once. And what was that called?
“Unkindness,� I said. “An unkindness of ravens.�
Rubbing my chilled arms, I rose from the bench and took a last look at the scene below.
“Unkindness and murder,â€� I whispered.”
― M.E. Hilliard, The Unkindness of Ravens

“Wouldn't the crow, that ubiquitous trickster, make a more compelling and accurate national symbol for the United States than the bald eagle?”
― Sherman Alexie, War Dances

“She wondered if the outside crows hated the crows of the blistered land the way that the villagers outside hated the people inside.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“I am a ghost town, my body still exists among the remnants and relics, but no one lives here anymore. The locals moved out with the post office. The shelves at the corner store stand as tombstones marking the prices of items
that once waited for hands to toss them in their basket. Spiders and the remains of their kills fill the fluorescent lights. The crows don’t even stop on the wires when they fly over.”
― Anne Marie Wells, Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems

“The island and its women loom large in the dreams of local folks, who sometimes wake up sweating from visions of witches in black (though the island women never wore black) or of crows watchful in treetops, or of swamp streams bubbling up through the floorboards of their houses. It is said the island, where healing waters percolate to the surface, was a place where women shared one another's dreams, a place where women did what they wanted.”
― Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters

“Our folly was that we listened to the crows when we should have listened to the doves.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Slay not the crow for all that he does is feed on man's woes.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“I could sit here for the rest of my life, with my hands full of wire, building dogs out of bone. And then the crows will eat me and I will fall in to the pit and we shall all be bones together.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“Fog lined the edges of the wood, hanging in low swirls over the meadow. The crows cawed together like a disjointed heartbeat. Nothing else moved.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“Their laughter floods the hallway, sounding like the cawing of crows.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Crows can't keep secrets any better than mud; once they see something curious in the forest they have to tell everybody. Those who listen are rewarded: either warned of predators or alerted to food. Kya knew something was up.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“One at a time, each of the crow left the circle and hopped into the surrounding thicket, emerging with a small twig or a piece of dried grass. One by one, they placed their offering on top of the body, hiding the twisted wings and the open beak that lay glinting like an obsidian shard in the low sun. More and more crows began to arrive, each bringing, something to lay on the corpse, until the clearing was a sea of glossy backs.
You'd told me once that crows mourn their dead. You'd never told me how.
Each bird laid their gift atop the dead crow and flew off. I did not yet know that, sometimes, it is impossible to mourn in the presence of others. When all the crows had left their offerings, the crowd dissolved into the twilight.”
― Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

“The baby is our baby, but as soon as we saw all the things that it can do, the dull solemness of its very gaze, we wished to put it back; we wished that a muster of crows might come and take it away.”
― Alice Ash, Paradise Block

“Crows love shiny things and they steal them and take them to their nests, the politician is also a crow, shameless like a crow, so he steals gold, silver, money, anything that shines and takes it to the place he trusts!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I have a deep fascination with crows. They are such intelligent birds.”
― Robin S. Baker

“The crow was an oracular bird, supposed to house the soul of a sacred king, after the sacrifice.”
― Robert Graves, The Greek Myths 1

“Vanity, thy name is crow. Which is funny because c-r-o-w is also how you spell kleptomaniac.”
― Hailey Edwards, Amber Gambler

“Eyeing the birds that are now staring at him from their perch, Greg breathes deeply, unsure of what he should do. He's heard too many stories about the weird crow behaviour that's become synonymous with this town and he's witnessed some of their antics first hand.”
― Vernon Oickle, Five Crows Silver

“Some people dismiss these old beliefs as superstitious, but not me. I’ve seen enough strange things in my lifetime to know better than to do that. When the crows have something to say, we should listen to them. Sometimes, ignoring them makes it worse and whatever they’re trying to tell you won’t go away just because you don’t want to accept their warnings.”
― Vernon Oickle, Five Crows Silver

“Never dare the crows to make good on their warnings, because if you provoke them, the black birds will do just that,â€� she hears Clara saying. “They are powerful and all-knowing and when challenged, they will never back down. They know things. It’s wise to always take them seriously.”
― Vernon Oickle, Six Crows Gold

“Come on, Cliff Graham. Get a god-damned grip. Slipping out from behind his hiding place, he thinks, these freaking crows are going to be the death of me yet.

He’s been dealing with unusual crow behaviour around this town from as far back as he can remember, and he can’t shake the feeling that something major is brewing with those black birds.”
― Vernon Oickle, Seven Crows a Secret Yet To Be Told

“With centuries of knowledge to draw on, along with an uncanny ability to tap into and access any change in circumstances that may affect the family, the crows are keenly aware that a major threat has emerged, and they must watch over their charges until the danger has been neutralized. They have chosen their protector and he will know what to do.”
― Vernon Oickle, Eight Crows for a Wish

“Crows played a significant Role during my Psychosis, they reminded me of the Apocalypse â€� even nowadays, their cawing reminds me to stay humble.”
― Sino Melo