Quail Quotes

With such a pity men preserve alive Pheasants and quails, when they are no fat enough to be eaten. - John Webster

While the birds still thrive on large, intensively managed quail plantations in north Florida, their numbers have declined in south Florida where changing land-use patterns have altered their preferred habitat. In fact, the landscape has changed so much that extensive tracts of land have become completely unproductive for quail. - Bill Giuliano

We have people quite often who are shot in quail incidents, so I didn't feel the need to get into the pile-on. - Bill Clinton

We have a lot of quail here, and we're going to have quail hunting this fall. It's not uncommon to flush 35 to 40 coveys a day. - Henry Scott

We get very few quail. The last ones we got were domesticated birds that had gotten loose. - Sue Small

Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels. - William Bartram

This past weekend encompassed all of us in a cloud of misfortune and sadness that is not easy to explain, especially to those who are not familiar with the great sport of quail hunting. My family and I are deeply sorry for all that Vice President Cheney and his family have had to go through this past week. - Harry Whittington

They call it target fixation. You get fixated on that quail and as it goes toward the sun you take a shot before it disappears in the light. - Steve Hall

There was some really good food out there. There was a really good quail dish and ribs. - Richard M. Nixon

There has been a dramatic decline in quail populations, and we welcome efforts by UF and other public and private agencies to restore this ecosystem in Florida and the Southeast. - Carlos Alfonso