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The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork. — Wilson Mizner

A rainbow in the sky or a bird that can fly often create Joy that money can't buy!-RVM — R.v.m.

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird — Josephine Hart

The spirit looks upon the Dust
That fastened it so long
With indignation,
As a Bird
Defrauded of it's Song. — Emily Dickinson

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird? — Edward Richards

I'd fly. I sit and watch the birds go by and say, I wish I could do that. — Kristin Kreuk

I want to be the bird that flies away. — Tahereh Mafi

I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage! — William Carlos Williams

The bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it — Philippa Gregory

Hope is the little bird that continues to sing the songs of possibilities in your heart when everything else says to give up. — Debasish Mridha

Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky. — Roger Tory Peterson

The early bird gets the worm that should have slept in. — J.S. Davey

She was so goddamn beautiful, the way things that could end you were. Guns. Knives. The tawny bird of prey she resembled. — Anne Calhoun

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you. — Lady Bird Johnson

Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter. — George W. Bush

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot. — Benjamin Franklin

When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists. — Rory Bremner

The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best. — Henry Van Dyke

You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement. — Todd Akin

Gone are the birds that were our summer guests. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power. — Mary Brave Bird

That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird. — Martial

The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing. — William Cowper

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage. — Victor Hugo

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music. — Rebecca West

Pizza Hut isn't real pizza," I tell them. "The way that balloon of Big Bird they fly in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade isn't the real Big Bird. — Meg Cabot

Bird boy kept us out there in the freezing rain while he yammered about the Red One this and Red One that. Darius got Zoey in here despite his help. — P.C. Cast

I can't take the chance that she'll leave, and I feel that this moment is tentative, like a wild bird has just landed on my shoulder. — J. Lincoln Fenn

Of course you shall set the bird free because you know that the wings need nothing but freedom! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The forest remembers that the last word can only be
the flaming cry of the bird of ruins in the bowl of the storm — Aime Cesaire

Fear is a bird that refuses to fly, and each time she neglects to use her wings, she consents to the slow death of her destiny. — Nadia Janice Brown

Faith is a bird that can see the light when it is dawn and starts singing in the dark. — Rabindranath Tagore

I'd forgotten how trees full of bird sounds made you sense the world differently: that life didn't just stop at eye level. — Barbara Kingsolver

The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in, says he with a grin, That the bluebird an' phoebe are smarter 'n we be? — John Townsend Trowbridge

A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned. — Ani DiFranco

As the sociologist Daniel Bell later observed, Oppenheimer's ordeal signified that the postwar "messianic role of the scientists" was now at an end. — Kai Bird

So I care for this restless fluttering in my heart as if it were a bird with a broken wing, in the hope that it will one day heal and fly. — Hazel Gaynor

Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together. — Andrew Bird

I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away. — Tahereh Mafi

Alright, the next pretty bird that walks through that door is up for grabs. — Ilsa Madden-Mills

Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant. — Adyashanti

For the bird that cannot soar, God has provided low branches. — Louis De Bernieres

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher. — Corrie Ten Boom

I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget. — Brad Bird

I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my imagination going. — Andrew Bird

I'm catholic in the same way, that if a cow was born in a tree, it's a bird! — Richard Jeni

The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush. — William Shakespeare

Shreave flicked away the dead mosquito. "Don't these things carry the bird flu too?"
"No Boyd, that would be a bird. — Carl Hiaasen

The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself. — D.H. Lawrence

It's not the early bird that gets the worm, it's the one who knows to go outside after a rainstorm. — James Schannep

Question: What is the white stuff in bird poop?
Answer: That is bird poop, too. — Kurt Vonnegut

Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song. — John Milton

Give your hero a strong simple reason that he or she has to solve the problem right now. — Matt Bird

She called, "Aurora!" in a penetrating voice that could cause a small bird to fall dead out of the sky. — Maureen Johnson

Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be. — Alton Brown

No, Wright wouldn't like the bird - a thing that sang. She used to sing. He killed that, too. — Susan Glaspell

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it. — Larry Bird

Broken wings don't mend that way; the way you think broken wings do. Once that wing has taken time to mend; that bird has forgotten how to fly — S.L. Northey

I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good. — Andrew Bird

That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed. — Robert A. Heinlein

It looked like a bird - in the same way that a wolf looked like a lapdog. — Brandon Sanderson

The anti-aging advert that I would like to see is a baby covered in cream saying, 'Aah, I've used too much' — Andrew Bird

More than the aspirations of an innocuous bird inside a cage, its the story of the cage that fascinates. — Ashutosh Gupta

She was only half Bird now, and the other half song. She liked it that way. — Katherine Catmull

Way is, where way goes. As a wind that blows and the bird that soars, into the open blue, where it neither knows when do is due. — Anthony Liccione

Her imagination was such that she could hear the song of the bird when it was still but a yolk in an egg. — Dean Koontz

Even when the bird walks we see that it has wings. — Antoine-Marin Lemierre

Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. — Victor Hugo

The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me. — Larry Bird

I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds. — Paul Watson

All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons. — Alan Coren

I stoped reading science fiction once I saw that the UFO was real. It became science fact that just hasn't been proven yet. — Mike Bird

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! — John Milton

I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen. — Pablo Neruda

When I go to the line I'm thinking 'All net.' When I don't think that, I'm likely to miss. — Larry Bird

See the wild birds on the wing,
Hear the bells that sweetly ring,
When you feel like singin', sing
Keep a-goin'! — Frank Lebby Stanton

Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again. — Lady Bird Johnson

Faith is a bird that sings songs of the heart. — Debasish Mridha

The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep. — Victor Hugo

But now Jay's mind was so full of other things that he could no longer hear the bird's song. — Ilchi Lee

The Chinese have a very good proverb: The bird of sorrow has to fly, but see that it does not nest in your mind. — Angelo D. Scolozzi

It hardly seemed fair, because, unlike a horse or a Seeing Eye dog, the whole glory of being a bird is that nobody would ever put you to work. — David Sedaris

He's throwing everything he can into the air on the chance that something might take flight. And we're the smallest, weakest bird. — Ally Condie

I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang. — William Butler Yeats

Life is like a beautiful bird that comes to your hand.If you let it go,it will fly into the sky,never to return.-RVM — R.v.m.

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it. — Rose Bird

I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice. — Larry Bird

When nations resort to arms, the human spirit is like a bird that cannot stand to hear its own song. — Phoenix Desmond

Do you think trees are the new birds? Don't answer that right away. — Julie Klausner

And what has become of it, where is that onetime love? Now it is the grave of a bird, a drop of black quartz, a chunk of wood eroded by the rain. — Pablo Neruda

I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA. — Larry Bird

The daughter sat down too and watched him with a cautious sly look as if he were a bird that had come up very close. — Flannery O'Connor

Quinn wanted to make her see that people didn't live like this; but what was the use. No one was going to get her away from Bird Man out there. — Thomas McGuane

I adore the sky wearing rainbow shawl of love for the birds so that they could fly free in warmth after the storm — Munia Khan

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all. — Anzia Yezierska

People would say, "You know, Rich, it's nature. Birds of a feather flock together." I have to point out to them that, no, that's not the case. — Richard Benjamin

What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love to see flying. — Sri Chinmoy

There must be transients in the bird world too, rumple-feathered outcasts that naturally seek out each other's company in inferior and dying trees. — Barbara Kingsolver

the phoenix feather in Harry's wand had come from the same bird that had supplied the core of Lord Voldemort's. — J.K. Rowling

Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson