Bird Quotes - Page 34

• There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Ocean, Men, Sea

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• The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Heart, Men, Wings

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• Witches try to 'connect' with the world around them. Witchcraft, they say, is about the tactile, intuitive understanding of the turn of the seasons, the song of the birds; it is the awareness of all things as holy.

  Tanya Luhrmann

  Song, Nature, Oneness

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• A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  Horse, Children, Work

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1963). “The Alderson story: my life as a political prisoner”, Intl Pub

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• Feminism is not a fad. It's not like Angry Birds. Although it does involve a lot of angry birds. Bad example.

  Bridget Christie

  Feminism, Fads, Example

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• How do you catch a beautiful bird without killing it? By becoming the sky.

  Antero Alli

  Beautiful, Sky, Becoming

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• That's life (that's life), I tell you I can't deny it
  I thought of quitting, baby, but my heart just ain't gonna buy it
  And if I didn't think it was worth one single try
  I'd jump right on a big bird and then I'd fly

  Frank Sinatra

  Baby, Heart, Thinking

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• Fish have got to swim. Birds have got to fly, and Clintons have to run for office. It's what they do. It's a metabolic urge. That's all they've done their entire life is borrow money from rich people to seek public office.

  George Will

  Running, People, Office

  "Dan Pfeiffer previews State of the Union, 2014 agenda; Sen. Mitch McConnell on GOP efforts to retake the Senate". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2014.

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• If I were ever to go mad it would be on Thanksgiving Day, that day of guilt and grace when the family hangs upon you like an ax over a sacrificial victim, like the oven's heat on that poor bird.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Thanksgiving, Mad, Grace

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• ... where do they go when they die? We hear of the elephant graveyards, where the elephants go to die, but how much more curious it is that birds are not falling out of the sky all the time, on our heads, at our feet, dying and falling and flopping to the ground. I rarely see a dead bird on the ground.

  Sophy Burnham

  Fall, Sky, Elephants

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners”, p.26, Penguin

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• It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free to cross back and forth between silence and word. Desire may also find itself so amputated by tradition and community that it wanders in a void with nothing to orient it, to shape or discipline it. Desire must find ways to navigate its bitter and sweet paradox: it moves toward but also always through and beyond every object.

  Wendy Farley

  Sweet, Moving, Wings

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• Creating everlasting works is possible only being ducked in Verity; and gaining verity is possible only from the god. The one who given the ability for creation to, it is given the ability for immortality to. This ability is the substance not only of the human beings, but it can be seen in animals; birds and insects.

  Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

  Animal, Creating, Substance

  "The Authority". Pamphlet by Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary,

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• I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.

  Mark Salling

  Real, Passion, Boys

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• There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Worms, Spite, Ecstatic

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1960). “Her”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.

  George Eliot

  Blow, Wind, Wells

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.509, George Eliot

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• Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Taken, Animal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.51, Harvard University Press

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• O lovely river of Yvette!
  O darling river! like a bride,
  Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette
  Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide.
  O lovely river Yvette!
  O darling stream! on balanced wings
  The wood-birds sang the chansonnette
  That here a wandering poet sings.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wings, Rivers, Lovely

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1883). “Longfellow's Poetical Works: With 83 Illustrations by Sir John Gilbert, R.A., and Other Artists”

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• He that will take the bird, must not skare it.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.317

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• Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. Thats it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.

  Joanna Lumley

  Flower, Animal, Tree

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• I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back.

  Johnny Cash

  Cabins, Ponds, Woods

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• I really like birds. Everyone always wants me to say that I can't stand to go near them, just like they want Janet Leigh to confess that she can't bear to take a shower. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you.

  Tippi Hedren

  Sorry, Want, Bears

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• I decided it would be better to be a bird. Birds are very busy at one period each year caring for babies, but this lasts only a few weeks with many of them, and then their babies are grown and gone. Best of all, they leave their houses forever and take to camping for the rest of the year. No wonder they are happy.

  Margaret Morse Nice

  Baby, Caring, Years

  Margaret Morse Nice (1979). “Research Is a Passion With Me: The Autobiography of a Bird Lover”, p.41, Dundurn

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• Your poems are like God's birds; they fly into people's hearts.

  Maia Wojciechowska

  Heart, People, Poetry

  maia wojciechowska (1968). “a single light”

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• I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for "True Blood" and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.

  Michael McMillian

  Writing, Blood, Two

  "EXCLUSIVE: Michael McMillian On 'True Blood' Comics, TV Crossovers, And Steve Newlin's Return". Interview with Rick Marshall, www.mtv.com. December 27, 2010.

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• If you hold a bird too tightly, you'll crush its wings

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Crush, Wings, Ifs

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