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"Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise." »Ivan Pavlov
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"Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles." »Pat Paulsen
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"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something." »Richard Feynman
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"I don't say that the bird is 'good' or the bat is 'bad.' But I will say this At least the bird is less nude." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"When the wind stops, kite falls but bird flies; because bird did not borrow the wind when rising!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song" »John Burroughs
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"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!" »John Burroughs, Birds and Poets, 1887
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"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another." »Luciano De Crescenzo
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"We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another." »Luciano de Crescenzo
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"We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly by embracing each other." »Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
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"There are only two words with four letters which can make us fly: Wing and Love." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"...love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing." »Alexandre Dumas
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"Foot is superior to wing, because even when we have wings to fly in the sky, we still need feet so as not to crawl on the ground!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"No national political party is going to nominate another right-wing candidate for a long time." »Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Playboy Interview - May 1966
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"How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year" »John Milton
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"There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing at the keyboard with one finger. As a learning environment, it may be mentally rich, but it is perceptually extremely impoverished. No smells or tastes, no wind or bird song (unless the computer is programmed to produce electronic tweets), no connection with soil, water, sunlight, warmth, the actual learning environment is almost autistic in quality, impoverished sensually, emotionally, and socially." »John Davy
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"News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day." »Gene Fowler
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"Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God." »Ambrose of Milan
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"I know why the caged bird sings." »Maya Angelou
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"It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need." »John Dewey
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"Bird cage is nice only when it is empty!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
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"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest." »J. G. Holland
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"Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way." »Goethe
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"Each bird loves to hear himself sing." »Arapaho Proverb
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"I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!" »Jerry Van Amerongen, Ballard Street, 08-18-05
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"God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest." »Swedish Proverb
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"I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks and it can't fly very high." »Wilbur Wright
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"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship." »William Blake
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