Carrie Vaughn Quotes
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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.
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If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.
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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.
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Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
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My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
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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.
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80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their primary source of protein.
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As a teenage fisherman, I watched and followed terns to find fish. Later, I studied terns for my Ph.D.
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
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I like the idea of taking off like a bird.
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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.
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What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.
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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.
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It is absolutely vital to hold it as lightly as possible - rather as one might pick up a newborn bird.
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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.
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Say, what is the spell, when her fledgelings are cheeping, That lures the bird home to her nest? Or wakes the tired mother, whose infant is weeping, To cuddle and croon it to rest?
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When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you needed to plow or, later, bulldoze. We now have a new understanding of the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the need for bird flyways and why all species matter.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.
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I don't think of myself as being tied.
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When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
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We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand imposes on whole sectors of the population and endless deferment of fulfillment.
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"Fish gotta swim, bird gotta fly, werewolf gotta have a pack?” I said wryly.
