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The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork.
— Wilson Mizner
20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
— Anonymous
If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back.
— John Of The Cross
A pearl in the shell does not touch the ocean. Be a pearl without a shell. a mindful flooding. a spark turned to flame. bird settling nest. love lived
— Rumi
You grimy as birds shittin' on the top of ya Fords.
— Curtis Jackson
We found the future, like birds fly into windows.
— Austin Kleon
Better a live bird in the jungle of the body than two stuffed birds on the library table.
— Nathanael West
Earth has few secrets from the birds.
— William Beebe
I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.
— Larry Bird
It is one thing to deceive a king, and quite another to hide from the cricket in the rushes and the little bird in the chimney.
— George R R Martin
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
— Lady Bird Johnson
Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.
— Rae Armantrout
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
— Martial
Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly
— Elmer Diktonius
I actually pointed my wand and it blew up! The power! The power was just like Angry Birds, but big [as] life.
— Helena Bonham Carter
The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
— William Cowper
Understand the power of asking.
— Drayton Bird
There is no word for time.
Today we will
not think to number another summer
or watch its white bird into the ground. — Anne Sexton
Today we will
not think to number another summer
or watch its white bird into the ground. — Anne Sexton
Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.
— Rebecca West
I love the feeling of shredded wheat. I love healthy bird food with a fun-to-eat feel. Then you spray them with sugar, and I'm there.
— Penn Jillette
My kids scotch tape worms to the sidewalk and watch the birds get hernias.
— Rodney Dangerfield
Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.
— Lady Bird Johnson
There was a bird whistle as Polly neared the hiding place. She identified this one as the sound of the Very Bad Bird Impersonator ...
— Terry Pratchett
Faith is a bird that sings songs of the heart.
— Debasish Mridha
The shell must be broken before the bird can fly.
— Jennifer Worth
The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
— Victor Hugo
But now Jay's mind was so full of other things that he could no longer hear the bird's song.
— Ilchi Lee
I plant my elbows on the kitchen table, prop up my chin and think: When the hell did the compass needle get out of whack and lead my life astray?
— Haruki Murakami
Like a bird, fly against the wind of opinions to reach your destination.
— Debasish Mridha
It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal.
— Frederick Lenz
Sometimes redemption lands in your life like a bird and looks you straight in the eye, even when you believe you don't deserve forgiveness.
— Adriana Trigiani
I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen.
— Pablo Neruda
A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.
— Julie Murphy
Feel body as luxury
as a bird feels when shooting through the air, and as a child does always
is health — Paramahansa Yogananda
as a bird feels when shooting through the air, and as a child does always
is health — Paramahansa Yogananda
Do not worry Little Bird, remember we are Simulacrum, and Simulacrum are never alone, for we know the end of the story.
— Julia J. Gibbs
If men were necessary in the procreation process, they'd have gone the way of the dodo bird long ago.
— Lois Greiman
Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?"
- from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird — Jerzy Kosinski
- from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird — Jerzy Kosinski
When I go to the line I'm thinking 'All net.' When I don't think that, I'm likely to miss.
— Larry Bird
A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.
— Pete Seeger
On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built.
— Hafez
For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.
— William Shakespeare
I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.
— Haruki Murakami
The early bird might catch the worm, but I bet it also needs a ton of under eye concealer
— Nicole Richie
In this place of light: he dares to live
Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings
Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things. — Theodore Roethke
Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings
Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things. — Theodore Roethke
See the wild birds on the wing,
Hear the bells that sweetly ring,
When you feel like singin', sing
Keep a-goin'! — Frank Lebby Stanton
Hear the bells that sweetly ring,
When you feel like singin', sing
Keep a-goin'! — Frank Lebby Stanton
Even if you break the bird's wings, you cannot change its spirit and heart,"-- Lilette (The Sign of Change)
— H. El-Tahwagi
So long, Bird Girl,' he whispered, changing the emphasis to stress the first word. 'So long,' I agreed, because a life without him would be.
— Annabel Pitcher
In mourning the plumage, he forgot the dying bird
— Thomas Paine
Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.
— Alberto Moravia
Poor bird! Thou 'dst never fear the net nor lime, The pitfall nor the gin.
— William Shakespeare
It is a strange life up here on the mountain side, but I like it, and never yearn after civilization.
— Isabella L. Bird
He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.
— John Of The Cross
Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.
— Lady Bird Johnson
A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch but on its own wings.
— Anonymous
The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?
— Philip K. Dick
Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Though I wondered what she ever made of my professed love for and intentions to marry Big Bird, the hottie of Sesame Street.
— Wendy Delsol
Her imagination was such that she could hear the song of the bird when it was still but a yolk in an egg.
— Dean Koontz
The whole universe is in darkness, but we remain lit. We're a tiny bird tied to a branch in the dark forest, with a spotlight trained on on us.
— Liu Cixin
I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.
— Andrew Bird
Accept all happiness from me.
Then shall i turn my face, and hear one bird
sing terribly afar in the lost lands.
in the lost lands — E. E. Cummings
Then shall i turn my face, and hear one bird
sing terribly afar in the lost lands.
in the lost lands — E. E. Cummings
To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing.
— Rabindranath Tagore
like the way a bird can sometimes swallow the horizon whole.
— Matthew Baker
Winter crescent resting in the high pine bough - you fly through the woods like a lone snow bird ...
— John Geddes
Give your hero a strong simple reason that he or she has to solve the problem right now.
— Matt Bird
Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.
— Alton Brown
The trembling increased, a moan of grief was heard, nothing articulate - as a bird in the night sometimes laments alone.
— Hans Fallada
Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?
— Johannes Kepler
The bird's delirium does not interest the trees.
— Henri Michaux
Mrs. Bird, seeing the defenseless condition of the enemy's territory, had no more conscience than to push her advantage.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
A bird in the hand is worth plucking, frying, and sticking between two bits of bread.
— Edward Burns
I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it.
— Ellen Gallagher
Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
Apparently it takes, like, forty-seven muscles to frown. Flippin' the bird' s a hell of a lot easier.
— Lois Greiman
chair in front of the trestle table behind
— Anthony J Bird
Oh! To be beyond the pale once more, out of civilization into savagery? I abhor civilization!
— Isabella L. Bird
The coach has turned into a pumpkin and the mice have all run away.
— Lady Bird Johnson
Human beings to me are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness directly and powerfully.
— Wynn Bullock
The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in, says he with a grin, That the bluebird an' phoebe are smarter 'n we be?
— John Townsend Trowbridge
In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
— Bill Vaughan
Silence, daughter. Stay alive.
— Amy Harmon
It looked like a bird - in the same way that a wolf looked like a lapdog.
— Brandon Sanderson