Bird Quotes - Page 35

• The crocodile doesn't harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.

  Linda Hogan

  Teeth, Harm, Crocodiles

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• The garden, historically, is the place where all the senses are exploited. Not just the eye, but the ear - with water, with birds. And there is texture, too, in plants you long to touch.

  William Howard Adams

  Eye, Garden, Long

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• Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs.

  A. O. Scott

  Pigs, Eagles, Tiny

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• Alas, so all things now do hold their peace:
  Heaven and earth disturbed in no thing:
  The beasts, the air, the birds their song do cease;
  The nightes chare the stars about doth bring.

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

  Song, Peace, Stars

  Henry Howard, “Alas! So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace”

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• No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.

  William Walton

  Plot, Honest, Lawyer

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• I never thought I'd be on Sesame Street with Elmo and Big Bird. I'm still thrilled. I'm on a high.

  Michelle Obama

  Elmo, Sesame Street, Bigs

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• I just read a book on how to get control of my time and therefore of my life. My time has always had a tendency to slip away from me and do as it pleases. My life follows it, like a puppy after an untrained bird dog. Come night, my life shows up, usually covered with mud and full of stickers, exhausted but grinning happily. My time never returns.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Dog, Book, Night

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• If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.

  Walter Benjamin

  Dream, Sleep, Eggs

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (2002). “Selected Writings: 1935-1938”, p.149, Harvard University Press

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• Free as a bird to settle where I will.

  William Wordsworth

  Settling

  1799-1805 The Prelude, bk.1, l.1-9 (published 1850).

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• When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind - with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows
  the laws of God and can apply them?

  Florence Nightingale

  Home, Wind, Law

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.97, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Those dull, unmusterious city unemployables, dressed in their grey, secondhand suits.

  Anthony J. Carson

  Cities, Dull, Suits

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• In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower,
  The spectral Owl doth dwell;
  Dull, hated, despised, in the sunshine hour,
  But at the dusk--he's abroad and well!
  Not a bird of the forest e'er mates with him--
  All mock him outright, by day:
  But at night, when the woods grow still and dim,
  The boldest will shrink away!
  O, when the night falls, and roosts the fowl,
  Then, then, is the reign of the Horned Owl!

  Bryan Procter

  Fall, Sunshine, Night

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• They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens. The remarkably adult yet innocent expression of their open and serene eyes is very memorable. All intelligence seems reflected in them. They suggest not merely the purity of infancy, but a wisdom clarified by experience. Such an eye was not born when the bird was, but is coeval with the sky it reflects. The woods do not yield another such a gem.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Memorable, Sky

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.147, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You can have a team of unconventional thinkers, as well as conventional thinkers. If you don't have the support of others you cannot achieve anything altogether on your own. It's like a cry in the wilderness. In each instance there were others who could see the same thing, and there were others who could not. It's an obvious difference we see in those who you might say have a bird's eye view, and those who have a worm's eye view. I've come to realize that we all have a different mind set, we all see things differently, and that's what the human condition is really all about.

  Jonas Salk

  Team, Eye, Differences

  "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 16, 1991.

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• All the great feelings like goodness, love or compassion eliminate the gravity and thus the wingless man rises like a bird.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Men, Compassion

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• Great master Lao Tzu says that 'The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.' Giving is indeed a very good source of happiness! One of the best treasures a man can give to someone is a good and sound idea; because birds can ascend into the sky only with wings, and men, only with good and sound ideas!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Men, Sky

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• In a beautiful morning, walking barefoot to the work through the green fields with the company of the singing birds... and there you shall meet the real happiness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Beautiful, Morning

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• Nature is a good teacher; he who can read the nature well, he can learn sagacious things belong to life from it. Once you stepped in the nature, your philosophical education starts. A black vulture teaches you many things; a bear teaches you many things; a bird making its nest and a rosehip which resists being frozen, they teach you many things!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Education, Teacher

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• The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Men, Tragedy

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• Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man's flying to the land of silence.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Freedom, Men, Land

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• Those ignoramuses who think that birds are happy in their cages know not a single thing about freedom!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Freedom, Thinking, Cages

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• Bird cage is nice only when it is empty!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nice, Cages, Empty

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• As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!

  Baruch Spinoza

  Wise, Inspiration, Men

  "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Preface, 1677.

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• I think statues are great; they show what great people would look like if a bird sh*t all over them.

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird; for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use

  Andre Gide

  Flower, Men, Worry

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