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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!. (Quote by - Simone Weil)

I came back today looking for a cuckoo clock and I did find that stuffed in. (Quote by - Lance Quam)

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo style of architecture. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)

The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded. (Quote by - Edmund Spenser)

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock. (Quote by - Wilson Mizner)

He was but as the cuckoo is in June, Heard, not regarded. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

And, being fed by us, you used us so As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird, Useth the sparrow--did oppress our nest; . . . (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

The first movement begins in sustained calm with bird calls throughout. The cuckoo's call eventually evolves into a beautiful melody. (Quote by - Gregory Pritchard)

List--'twas the cuckoo--O, with what delight Heard I that voice! and catch it now, though faint, Far off and faint, and melting into air, Yet not to be mistaken. Hark again! Those louder cries give notice that the bird, Although invisible as Echo's self, Is wheeling hitherward. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)

Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year. (Quote by - John Logan)

Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make, with joyful wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring. (Quote by - John Logan)

I felt like Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. (Quote by - Diego Maradona)

Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear,Unpleasing to a married ear!. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

What's the first image that comes to mind when you think of a mental hospital? Jack Nicholson in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' right? We need to change that perception, and places like this one are doing that. (Quote by - Deborah Norville)

The first cuckoo's melancholy cry. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)

The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness. (Quote by - Chanakya)

And hear the pleasant cuckoo, loud and long - / The simple bird that thinks two notes a song. (Quote by - William Henry Davies)

The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases. (Quote by - Bob Brown)

I have a few favorites, but I like 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' the best. (Quote by - Sean Burke)

He's anticipated any backlash with his cuckoo conspiracy theory; he's built a firewall around himself. (Quote by - Arthur Caplan)

The cuckoos remain silent for a long time (for several seasons) until they are able to sing sweetly (in the Spring) so as to give joy to all. (Quote by - Chanakya)

At land indeed Thou dost o'ercount me of my father's house: But since the cuckoo builds not for himself, Remain in't as thou mayst. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

The whole town is like, cuckoo. It's going to be a pretty intense film. A lot of running, screaming, crying. (Quote by - Jennae Harwell)

The Attic warbler pours her throat Responsive to the cuckoo's note. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)

Businesses and individuals without computer protection in place are living in cloud-cuckoo-land. These worms can wreak havoc on a network but are easily controlled if an effective security policy is in place. (Quote by - Carole Theriault)

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