Bird Quotes
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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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I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.
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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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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.
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So into the woods we went—it was surprisingly noisy. Especially one loud bird whose chirping sounded far too cheerful for the middle of the night.
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Bird cages are nothing of incredible value, but I like them.
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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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We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.
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Its impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.
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Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.
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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.
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Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.
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How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.
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Turning as it looked for prey. Though the bird’s shadow whipped over her face.
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The older I get, I realize, 'Man, I'm a very rare bird,' and that's not because of necessarily my talent or ability; it so much depends on luck and just the grace of the universe.
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The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.
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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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I am no bird and no net ensnares me...
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The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.
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Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.
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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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Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.
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There is no bird flu in commercial stocks.
