Bird Quotes - Page 39

• I would say this to my students all the time, it's about 30% you as the teacher and 70% about them. They tend to think that their role is to be the baby bird in a nest and you're going to feed them? They're going to feed themselves, or they're going to starve.

  Tim Gunn

  Baby, Teacher, Thinking

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• I'm finding that knocking at their mindsets is hard work. A simple knock will not make it crawl. I was trying to push it. I was trying to find a bird's eye view where I could find a big solution. So this is what I was trying.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Hard Work, Eye, Simple

  "Stephen Covey Interviews Grameen Bank Founder Muhammad Yunus". Interview with Stephen Covey, socialbusinesspedia.com. November 1, 2016.

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• What I learned in school, what I learned in the educational part of my life. Trying to acquire a kind of a bird's eye view. You drive hard and see everything. And that's called education because now you can see everything.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Educational, School, Eye

  "Stephen Covey Interviews Grameen Bank Founder Muhammad Yunus". Interview with Stephen Covey, socialbusinesspedia.com. November 1, 2016.

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• Keep in mind, coal plants claim plenty of birds too. Sadly, hydro claims the lives of many fish. There is a price for everything. Solar does the best as far as very minimal wildlife damage.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Mind, Doe, Coal

  Interview with Jennifer Vogel, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

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• Little things like making clothes, baking bread, cooking, even useless things like bird-watching, sketching flowers, playing guitar in the home - that sort of time is gone. And the time we have? We're so exhausted, we want to let ourselves get sucked in to the escape world of TV. I'm speaking from experience; I'm not above all this.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Flower, Home, Guitar

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• Last time you bring me pie, I cut into it, with my tiny pie cutter, and millions of birds flew out hitting me in the eyes and the temples... it was a trick pie!

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Humor, Eye

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• As I began researching butterflies, however, the monarch stood out among all of them. It's the only butterfly - the only insect - that migrates like a bird or a whale!

  Mary Alice Monroe

  Butterfly, Whales, Insects

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• Silence is golden for me. I live in the country and hear only my pets, birds, crickets, and the wind in the trees.

  Franny Armstrong

  Country, Wind, Silence

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• Very few people realize the damage even one mercury vapor light can inflict on birds, air quality and human sleep patterns. It a serious problem that is rapidly growing and it will take all of us to take action before we see results.

  Will Young

  Sleep, Light, Air

  Source: www.astronomyhouston.org

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• I want a big 25-foot pink statue that holds my grave. Or I also might like the way the Indians did it. They hang you up on the top of a tree and the birds eat you. No, really I would probably choose cremating.

  Jack Nicholson

  Feet, Tree, Want

  Source: the-talks.com

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• I can tell that in Refuge the question that was burning in me was, how do we find refuge in change? Everything around me that was familiar had been turned inside out with my mother's diagnosis of ovarian cancer and with the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge being flooded.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mother, Cancer, Rivers

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• All the birds love Touche Eclat. It's a (concealer) pen that gets rid of eye bags. But I'm quite happy otherwise. I train a lot.

  Jason Flemyng

  Eye, Bags, Pens

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

  Francis Bacon

  Twilight, Doubt, Bats

  Francis Bacon (1720). “Lord Bacon's Essays, Or Counsels Moral and Civil: Translated from the Latin by William Willymott, ... In Two Volumes. ...”, p.178

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• I believe in my heart that faith in Jesus Christ can and will lead us beyond an exclusive concern for the well-being of other human beings to the broader concern for the well-being of the birds in our backyards, the fish in our rivers, and every living creature on the face of the earth.

  John Wesley

  Jesus, Believe, Heart

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• And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may also be the only belief that can save us as a species. A species that will continue to find comfort and delight in the companionship of animals, the miracle of birds, the colours of the corals and the majesty of the forests. We are in it together, on this blue spinning marble in the cold and silent void. And we must act on that belief, if we are going to be able to continue to live a good life here, in this beautiful and fragile country, on this lovely planet, our only home.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Beautiful, Country, Good Life

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• The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the name of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. Drawing down like something trying to preserve heat. In time to wink out forever.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Reality, Drawing, Color

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.75, Vintage

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• Right now the day length is exactly the same as in spring when birds key into it and begin singing. The birds are a little confused by it all and the singing isn't very intense. It only lasts a week or so each fall, but it's still cool to hear spring bird songs at this time of the year.

  Craig Thompson

  Song, Confused, Spring

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• Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Body, Nests, Invisible

  "The Creator" by Dejan Stojanovic, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd, "Nests", (p. 55), 2000.

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• If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago He would've thought they were birds Or angels from another world Or messengers from other planets.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Angel, Men, Years

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• Words are the birds that break cover and show your enemy where you're hiding.

  Mike Carey

  Enemy, Hiding, Break

  Mike Carey (2008). “The Devil You Know: A Felix Castor Novel”, p.47, Hachette UK

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• Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

  Dean Young

  Cages

  Dean Young (2011). “Fall Higher”, p.86, Copper Canyon Press

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• When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

  Colin Wilson

  Eye, Views, Focus

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• Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Fool, Easy, Beaks

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Despair”, p.104, Penguin UK

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• Suttree surfaced from these fevered deeps to hear a maudlin voice chant latin by his bedside, what medieval ghost come to usurp his fallen corporeality. An oiled thumball redolent of lime and sage pondered his shuttered lids.Miserere mei, Deus ...His ears anointed, his lips ... omnis maligna discordia ... Bechrismed with scented oils he lay boneless in a cold euphoria. Japheth when you left your father's house the birds had flown. You were not prepared for such weathers. You'd spoke too lightly of the winter in your father's heart. We saw you in the streets. Sad.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Latin, Father, Heart

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.447, Pan Macmillan

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• In the nights sometimes now he'd wake in the back and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Song, Night, World

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