Willow Smith Quotes

Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird.

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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

• I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury stuffing to a vine leaf filled with rice and spices.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Sweet
  • 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

• I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Small
  • Sorry
  • Bird

• I think I've made some choices that maybe I wasn't so sure about for some reason or another. But I'm one of the lucky ones. Even when I was young, I played Bird, and that's a role people wait for their whole lifetime.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Choices
  • Bird

• 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

• Argentina has the best bird shooting in the world.

  

  W. E. B. Griffin
  • World
  • Best
  • Bird

• 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

• It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Years
  • Compare
  • Useful

• 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

• The girl's mouth was chapped, tight and pinched, her skin dry. Mama would say she looked woebegone, but as Bird looked at her eyes, the word she thought of was desperate.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • She
  • Girl
  • Eyes

• 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

• I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and feeling crappy.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Feeling
  • Looking
  • Uncomfortable

• We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Religion

• Nancy Mace has written a wonderful, timeless memoir of the great test to become the first female graduate of The Citadel. Her book is provocative, hilarious, illuminating, and true. It is also a love letter to her college and the best book about The Citadel ever written.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Great
  • Book
  • True

• Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Peace
  • Thoughts

• I've always been one of the youngest guys on the team. But now I'm one of the older guys, one of the more experienced guys, and I have to be more of a leader. The guys are looking up to me, asking me questions and looking at me to step up.

  

  Freddy Adu
  • Up
  • Team

• Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird.

  

  Willow Smith
  • Bird
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