Quotes about Ostrich

the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.

Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.

Pliny suggested that the ostrich, then newly discovered, was the result of a cross between a giraffe and a gnat. (It would, I suppose, have to be a female giraffe and a male gnat.) In practice there must be many such crosses which have not been attempted because of a certain understandable lack of motivation.