“ The moment the little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. ”
- Eric Berne- Copy
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“ A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries. ”
- Jean Ingelow- Copy
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“ And He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise. ”
- Ivan Pavlov- Copy
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“ Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. ”
- David Letterman- Copy
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“ Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. ”
- Henry Van Dyke- Copy
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“ Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. ”
- Dale Carnegie- Copy
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“ Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? ”
- Rose Kennedy- Copy
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“ How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire! ”
- Belva Plain- Copy
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“ God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ”
- J. G. Holland- Copy
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“ There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. ”
- Robert Lynd- Copy
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“ I have tried to celebrate the park, which means so much to so many of us, in The Eye of the Storm and in some of the shorter novels of The Cockatoos. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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“ Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. ”
- Saskya Pandita- Copy
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“ I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high. ”
- Wilbur Wright- Copy
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“ I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
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“ I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. ”
- Charles Lindbergh- Copy
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“ Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly shore, — Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the Raven "Nevermore! ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
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“ Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
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“ I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale. - A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
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