He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.
We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly.
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.
I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird!
Feathers predate birds.
I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.
I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.
Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.
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