Robert Krulwich

If I were king of the world, babies born in airplanes, balloons and blimps would, instead of choosing to be German, Maldivian or American, all get special heavenly blue passports with a stork on the cover labeled 'Sky Baby' - and they'd be allowed to come and go anywhere they please.

American Journalist

Erich Maria Remarque

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.

German Writer

Jill McCorkle

I once had a story editor ask me not to use the word 'placenta.' I wanted to say: 'Now tell me again how you got here?' Oh, right, an angel of God placed you into the bill of the stork.

American Novelist

Tracy Morgan

I don't believe in storks. I know they don't deliver babies; they deliver pickles.

American Actor

Mae West

His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

American Actress

Storks are real birds, often confused with similar birds like cranes and herons, but have unique features.

Bird Identification

Storks are symbolic of new life and births because they're believed to bring babies in folklore.

Symbolic Meaning

The stork is often associated with family and childbirth in Western cultures, especially in stories.

Cultural Relevance

The story of storks delivering babies originates from various myths and has no basis in reality.

Folklore Origin

Parents sometimes use the stork story to answer young children's questions about where babies come from.

Addressing Curiosity

Movies and cartoons often reference the stork's role in baby delivery for humor or to maintain childhood innocence.

Stork in Media

 He had missed a... just a bird there. And whenever there's a higher viewpoint like this they climb up on top of trees to look for wildlife. They usually get up early morning and hunt until noon or something like that. Below trees they make these blinds to hunt from blinds. They some time, they get stork, this

We Are What We Eat:...

 nice and white again you're not going to impress anybody you know that that one that's what a yellow billed stork is supposed to look like beautiful with a bright red facial skin the bright red legs and then of course a lovely long yellow beak Roxy you said you love the birds here in the Mara

Safari Live - Day 202 PIPE...

 and fathers and babies, the whisper of stork wings on a spring afternoon. For them, environmental contamination may not be the worst sort of devastation. It turns out this holds true for other species as well. Wild boar, lynx, moose, they've all returned

Holly Morris: Why stay...

 deliver babies I'm still I actually need to read up on exactly where that story came from because it really is one of those ones that from us in the Western world we really do remember don't we storks and babies but the marabou stalk

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 needs to take water and put it put his head up it doesn't have a gullet so in a stork that one is Bordelon I think they don't have a gullet Arthur now I didn't hear who but somebody said ostrich know ostriches

Safari Live - Day 190 PIPE...

 world's is be interesting to see I my first thought would have been one of the sort of like I say cranes maybe storks for us here in southern Africa but in terms of the world I'm a die-hard potential now

Safari Live - Day 134 PIPE...

 and a half feet the mongooses are barely pushing two feet tail included how long and these scrappy little fighters told off the largest storks in the world

Stork vs. Mongoose PIPE...

 Using this data, he plotted the first migration route ever discovered, and definitively established that storks were not, in fact, flying to the moon.

The spear-wielding stork...

 the Shoebill stork is a giant at the swamp well over a metre tall if bizarre beak is perfectly designed

The Unusual African...

 little fighters hold off the largest storks in the world the mother Mongoose enters 7 pups have

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