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It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
- A small bird will drop frozen dead
- From a bough
- Without ever having felt sorry for itself.
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
JOSEPH ADDISON, The Spectator
- Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these?
- Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught
- The dialect they speak, where melodies
- Alone are the interpreters of thought?
- Whose household words are songs in many keys,
- Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught!
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, Tales of a Wayside Inn
- Lo--a black line of birds in wavering thread
- Bore him the greetings of the deathless dead!
EMMA LAZARUS, The Cranes of Ibicus
Birds of a feather will flock together.
Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter.
GEORGE W. BUSH, advice while quail hunting, Jan. 22, 2004
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 WILSON LYND, The Blue Lion and Other Essays
The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
J.M. BARRIE, The Little White Bird
Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, Don Quixote
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
DAVID LETTERMAN, The Late Show with David Letterman
If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
CHARLES LINDBERGH, interview, 1974
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
JACQUES DEVAL, Afin de vivre bel et bien
Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, Camino Real
- O birds, your perfect virtues bring,
- Your song, your forms, your rhythmic flight,
- Your manners for your heart’s delight,
- Nestle in hedge, or barn, or roof,
- Here weave your chamber weather-proof,
- Forgive our harms, and condescend
- To man, as to a lubber friend,
- And, generous, teach his awkward race
- Courage, and probity, and grace!
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, May-Day and Other Pieces
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