Feathers Quotes

• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20

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• I am a feather for each wind that blows

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 2, sc. 3, l. 153

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• Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

  Shania Twain

  Short Life, Life Is Short, Wind

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers.

  Suzy Kassem

  Dream, Heart, Bird

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).

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• Lean forward into your life...
  catch the best bits and the finest wind.
  Just tip your feathers in flight a wee bit
  and see how dramatically that small lean
  can change your life.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Wind, Flight, Changing Your Life

  Radmacher, Mary Anne (2015). “Lean Forward into Your Life: Listen Hard, Live with Intention, and Play with Abandon”, p.2, Conari Press

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• I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

  Stephen King

  Bird, Prison Life, Redemption

  "The Shawshank Redemption". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

  Joanna Baillie

  Heart, High Heels, Add

  Joanna Baillie (1800). “A series of plays, in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind [by J. Baillie”, p.355

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• If feathers don't ruffle, nothing flies.

  Jessica Raine

  Ruffles, Ifs

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• It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

  Aesop

  Being Yourself, Bird, Fables

  "The Jay and the Peacock". A fable by Aesop,

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• May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather.

  Edward Ramsay

  Friendship, Wings, Rust

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• Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him.

  Stephen King

  Magic, Needs, Remember

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Words and feathers the wind carries away.

  George Herbert

  Wind, Carrie

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.325

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• Hope is a thing with feathers

  Emily Dickinson

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• A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

  Alexander Pope

  Sarcastic, Heart, Brain

  'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 2, l. 44

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• I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.

  Javier Perez de Cuellar

  Retirement, Light, Feels

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• I don't have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes.

  Yves Rossy

  Technology, Bird, Sometimes

  "'Jetman' lives the dream of flying". www.cnn.com. December 4, 2011.

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• The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Children, Light, Water

  Louis Lallemant, Jean Pierre de Caussade, Claude De La Colombiere, Jean-Pierre Lafouge (2006). “For God's Greater Glory: Gems of Jesuit Spirituality”, p.73, World Wisdom, Inc

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• We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

  William Ralph Inge

  Cousin, Animal, Rights

  Outspoken Essays: Second Series "The Idea of Progress" (1922)

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• The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fall, Night, Eagles

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.108

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• Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.

  Plautus

  Wings, Flying, Aviation

  "Plautus: The little Carthaginian. Pseudolus. The ro".

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• the power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead.

  Bob Marley

  Philosophy, Light, Rasta

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• Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

  Edith Wharton

  Life, Giving, Bed

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• The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back.

  Baba Hari Dass

  Light, Elephants, Desire

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• If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Running, Ducks, Water

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