Quotes of Wren - somelinesforyou

“ Among the dwellings framed by birds In field or forest with nice care, Is none that with the little wren's In snugness may compare. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. ”

- William Henry Hudson

“ Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me. ”

- John Dryden

“ Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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