Canary Quotes

“Did this mean he was about to tell her something he wouldn’t normally? Her ears perked—figuratively, since her ears were now feather-covered holes in the sides of her head.

He laughed softly. “You know, you are almost enjoyable to talk to, when you do not say anything back.”

She willed the water in the tub to strike him in the face.

There was a loud splash. “Hey!” He sounded surprised, but not unpleasantly so. “Interesting. You are still capable of elemental powers. But stop—or I will feed you to the castle cats.”

She struck him again.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky

“Had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Mr. Mulliner Speaking

“In Marin County, north of San Francisco, the search for a safe haven resulted in a new apartment complex - the first, and only, such government-sponsored project aimed at MCS.”
― Peter Radetsky, Allergic to the Twentieth Century: The Explosion in Environmental Allergies--From Sick Buildings to Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

“Plant life is like the canary in the cage. When it starts to die off, we know we have problems. To ignore plant die off would be like the human race committing suicide. Human extinction would surely follow.”
― Steven Magee, Solar Radiation, Global Warming and Human Disease

“Aloha Hawaii, adios La Palma.”
― Steven Magee

“Ola La Palma, goodbye United Kingdom.”
― Steven Magee

“High altitude professional astronomy took me to the Canary Islands, Hawaii, Arizona and Mexico.”
― Steven Magee

“I sent a box from Hawaii to the Canary Islands and it took six months for it to get there with an expensive import fee!”
― Steven Magee

“The "Suicide Belt" is a name given to the high suicide rates around the high altitude “Rocky Mountain” states. You can see the same thing in the highest islands in the Canary Islands and Hawaii.”
― Steven Magee

“The island of La Palma in the Canary Islands is really steep.”
― Steven Magee

“The higher the island, the higher the suicide rate is.”
― Steven Magee

“It was common in professional astronomy to live at altitude.”
― Steven Magee