Chenjerai Hove Quotes

It is the noisy bird which gets the stone from the catapult...

Chenjerai Hove

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

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Father
  • Free
  • Freedom

• I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Think
  • Problems
  • Abuse

• 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

• 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

• 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

• There is a bird in a poem by T. S. Eliot who says that mankind cannot bear very much reality; but the bird is mistaken. A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Reality
  • Universe
  • Bird

• 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

• 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

• Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for the bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.

  

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • Time
  • Door
  • Bird

• 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

• In my four years as a state legislator, I went to dozens of nontraditional events - everything from bird watchings to tree giveaways, neighborhood cleanups to self-defense clinics for women - going where people are instead of asking them to come to me. It's how I learned about their struggles and how legislative decisions affected their lives.

  

  Jimmy Gomez
  • People
  • Women
  • Tree

• I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird!

  

  Bettie Page
  • House
  • Free
  • Bird

• When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • Beautiful
  • Food
  • Wine

• I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.

  

  Dennis Rodman
  • Great
  • Game
  • Player

• When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance.

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Guy
  • Learning
  • Bird

• I see no reason to quit. I can't imagine walking away from being Big Bird. I mean, that's an awfully good job that there's not too many of them. So I just want to keep doing it till I can't do it anymore.

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Good
  • Job
  • Walking

• I think there's an awful lot of me in Big Bird, but Oscar is pretty much - I think I know how he thinks because he thinks exactly the opposite of what I think is a good way to be.

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Bird

• If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Why
  • Door
  • Bird

• One who loves must learn fear. One who fears must learn love. The thinker must do. The doer must think. The pacifist must fight, the fighter must find peace. If you flow as a river, burn as a fire. If you burn as a furnace, flow as a river. If you fly as a bird, sit firm as a rock. If you sit firmly, then fly as a bird. Be a fire that flows. A rock that flies. Love with fear and fear with love. For we are not fire, not water, not air, not rocks, not thoughts, not deeds, not fear, not love. We are G-dly beings.

  

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson
  • Thinking
  • Water
  • Fighting

• There is nothing conceptually better than rock 'n' roll. No group, be it Beatles, Dylan or Stones, have ever improved on Whole Lot of Shaking for my money. Or maybe I'm like our parents: that's my period and I dig it and I'll never leave it.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Rock N Roll
  • Stone
  • Beatles

• As shadow foreign secretary, I have been as clear in my support for the government when it does something we agree with as I am in highlighting that which we oppose.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • Support
  • Shadow

• 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.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Time
  • War
  • Help

• It is the noisy bird which gets the stone from the catapult...

  

  Chenjerai Hove
  • Bird
  • Stone
  • Catapult