Quotes of the Week - March 9, 2010:
"Young players, young boys, rich boys - this is the problem."
-- Fabio Capello the England soccer football manager, says money is
spoiling the game.
"I want you to know, Mrs Obama, that I'm your husband's No 1 fan.
And not just because he's a black man. He's mixed. And I wouldn't really
know what that looks like anyway." --Stevie Wonder greets Michelle
Obama, wife of US president.
"I've only been with two men my entire life. I've never even come
close to having a one-night stand." -- Actress Megan Fox says she
is no man-eater.
Topic: Bird Quotes - Famous Bird Quotes,
Quotations, Sayings about Birds
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and
there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. Carl Sandburg
If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar, and
will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut? Olive Schreiner
Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads,
and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded
by enemies. James Stephens
The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air. Rabindranath (Thakur) Tagore
To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and the flow
of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great
salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept
up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands
of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad
to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly
eternal as any earthly life can be. Rachel Carson Under the Sea-Wind.
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed
down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more
fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful - but as something
which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"What kind of bird are you, if you can't fly?" said
he. To this the duck replied, "What kind of bird are you
if you can't swim?" and dived into the pond. Sergei Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back. Henry David Thoreau
The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey. Andy Warhol
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. John Webster
And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive
down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and
become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever
flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that
even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher
than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar. Herman Melville
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and
which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them
sing. Eric Berne
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into
its nest. J.G. Holland
It's a good thing we have gravity, or else when birds died they'd
just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused. Steven Wright
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap
nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not of more value than they? The Bible Matthew 6:26.
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because
it has a song. Chinese Proverb
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. Chinese Proverb
A bird which eats berries can be caught, but not a bird that
eats wood. Maaori Proverb
"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring
tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter
has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look
for it." Henry David Thoreau 28 November 1858 journal entry.
When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both
the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one
on his back and the hue of the other on his breast. John Burroughs
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands
truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we
are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and
sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. Henry Ward Beecher
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free
to delight in whatever remains to them? Rose F. Kennedy
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of
cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. Joseph Addison The Spectator, 1712.
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than
the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as
it was before. Robert Lynd The Blue Lion and Other Essays.
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while
I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more
distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by
any epaulet I could have worn. Henry David Thoreau
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth
their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them
to the shame of art. Izaak Walton
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries
taste. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Seagulls... slim yachts of the element. Robinson Jeffers
Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except
that the birds might eat them. Martin H. Fischer
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