Pelican Funny Quotes

A man, to use an old-fashioned phrase, of some twenty-eight summers, he gave the impression at the moment of having experienced at least that number of very hard winters

I particularly enjoy the great synchronized skeins of pelicans that fly above the waves in summer. How, being animals, they know how to write the letter V just so in the sky is anyone’s guess.

All the animals, the birds, the reptiles, the insects, and the fishes chose as they severally desired. Oh, what funny creatures some of them were—the kangaroo, the frilled lizards, the bats of all types, the pelican with its big bill, the platypus, the flying-fox, the stupid-looking old wombat, and the frog that grew to maturity in such a strange fashion! First of all it came forth from the spawn, all belly and tail, then gradually it developed legs peeping out from where the body and the tail joined; after a while the tail shrank and the body became well developed, four legs appeared, and then the frog was complete.

Most of the time, as long as there was no work to be done, I can be found wrapped in a blanket on the garden porch, too tired to read anything of substance, yawning my life away, maybe reaching for the newspaper to glance over the funny pages, where they run little quizzes, asking things like which of the following seven animals hatches from an egg: turtles, whales, rabbits, frogs, seals, ants, pelicans... I might even give this a moment's thought, but then I'll yawn so hard that tears will be running down my cheeks. That's when I'll gaze without a care at the sun setting in the fields beyond the yard, enjoying the existence of a man excused from living.