Bird Quotes
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No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.
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You have to love with an open hand. The heart is like a bird and you have to let this bird fly freely, you cannot possess it.
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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
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Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.
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I love taking the boat to the Farne Islands, a few miles offshore. It has a National Trust bird sanctuary with seals and every sort of seabird you can imagine.
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Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well."
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
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I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee; And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky, Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.
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Morning has broken Like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird.
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I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn;- Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright With tangled gossamer that fell by night, Pearling his coronet of golden corn.
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What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
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Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.
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How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?
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God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.
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I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.
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Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
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Earth has few secrets from the birds.
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The reform and opening up of China hasn't been happening quite the way we've been told, like a small bird breaking out of its egg. Its more like a cicada shedding its skin, emerging ever so slowly. Energy is the last part of that shell that needs to be shed.
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Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!
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Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.
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That's not how you're going to live, Bird Girl. Not on my account. Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.
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Who's to know what makes a bird wake up and decide to change its song? It was written that our world would change and it changed.
