Feathers Quotes

• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in battle, in love, with torn feathers and a busted leg and a chipped beak and one of its eyes half closed; and yet a bird of deeper loveliness for all of that.

  Jeff Noon

  Eye, Long, Bird

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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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• As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

  Kate Atkinson

  Clouds, Sky, Snow

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel”, p.170, Macmillan

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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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• What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?

  William Shakespeare

  Beautiful, Animal, Larks

  1593 Petruccio to Kate.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 4, sc.3, l.173-6.

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• This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

  Terence McKenna

  Mind Blowing, Magic, Bed

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• Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.

  John Lubbock

  Song, Spring, Flower

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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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• And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Delight, Littles

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.142

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• Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek; Then off at once, as in a wanton freak: Or perhaps, to show their black, and golden wings Pausing upon their yellow flutterings.

  John Keats

  Space, Wings, Yellow

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.34, Harvard University Press

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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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• Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.

  Robert Jordan

  Light, Mountain, Wheel Of Time

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• Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way.

  Joni Mitchell

  Angel, Ice, Clouds

  Song: Both Sides Now

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