Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Say I'm a bird! Say it! Say it now!" "You're a bird." "Now say you're a bird too." "If you're a bird, I'm a bird.

Nicholas Sparks

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• I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Feeling
  • Beauty
  • Bird

• My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Father
  • Free
  • Freedom

• Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • She
  • Same
  • Bird

• My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Great
  • Mother
  • High

• It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • May
  • Bad
  • Change

• The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a face, more than like a dog or a giraffe. They have this weird, alien face that you can actually make expressive.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Weird
  • Dog
  • Bird

• Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Experience
  • Dream
  • Bird

• I like the idea of taking off like a bird.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Like
  • Idea
  • Bird

• I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

  

  Olivier Messiaen
  • Military
  • Bird
  • Colors

• I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Real
  • Mother
  • Age

• His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Beautiful
  • Dark
  • Ugly

• But what gave him the most satisfaction was going back through the pages to read about his first story appearing in the Saturday Evening Post. That afternoon he'd bought Bird the largest bag of lemon drops he could find. 'He gives her candy,' she had said, remembering too.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • She
  • Bird
  • Saturday

• If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Experience
  • Dream
  • Sleep

• It is absolutely vital to hold it as lightly as possible - rather as one might pick up a newborn bird.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Up
  • Bird

• Perched up high on a rooftop,like a bird I'm having evil thoughts,A black hood covers my faceas death flows through my mind at its own pace.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Up
  • Mind
  • High

• The editorial page played streams of invective across the provincial political scene like a fire hose. Harangues, pitted with epithets. Gammy bird was a hard bite. Looked life right in its shifty, bloodshot eye. A tough little paper. Gave Quoyle an uneasy feeling, the feeling of standing on a playground watching others play games whose rules he didn't know.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Life
  • Political
  • Feeling

• And as he lay there a far crack of lightning went bluely down the sky and bequeathed him in an embryonic bird's first fissured vision of the world and transpiring instant and outrageous from dark to dark a final view of the grotto and the shapeless white plasm struggling upon the rich and incunabular moss like a lank swamp hare.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • World
  • Dark
  • Vision

• When a person hasn’t in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog’s bark in every sound.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Good
  • Dog
  • Cold

• I'm not into superhero movies, but I love cartoons. Tweety bird is my favourite.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Bird
  • Superhero

• A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But it is more-it is the lichens and moss and ferns that grow on its bark, the life too small to see that lives among its roots, a community we know of, but do not think on. It is every fly and bee and beetle that uses it for shelter or food, every bird that nests in its branches. Every one an individual, and yet every one part of the tree, and the tree part of every one.

  

  Elizabeth Moon
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Small

• What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.

  

  Herb Ritts
  • Way
  • Scene
  • Involved

• Power changes its appearance but not its reality.

  

  Bertrand de Jouvenel
  • Power
  • Reality
  • Changes

• The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.

  

  Emma Thompson
  • Different
  • Important
  • Society

• Say I'm a bird! Say it! Say it now!" "You're a bird." "Now say you're a bird too." "If you're a bird, I'm a bird.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Bird