| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "I know why the caged bird sings." »Maya Angelou |
| "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko |
| "A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song." »Chinese Proverb |
| "The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp." »John Berry |
| "I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks and it can't fly very high." »Wilbur Wright |
| "God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest." »J. G. Holland |
| "The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." »Unknown |
| "Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark." »Rabindranath Tagore |
| "The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship." »William Blake |
| "If I could be a bird, I think I'd be a penguin, because then I could walk around on two feet with a lot of other guys like me." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly. But they forget the negative side, which is the preening." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance." »e e cummings |
| "It was a turkey He could never have stood upon his legs, that bird He would have snapped 'em off short in a minute, like sticks of sealing wax." »Charles Dickens |
| "A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivaled heights." »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "But I have always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself--you know, one that will get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell." »Charles E. Wilson |
| "Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat." »Henrik Ibsen |
| "If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands." »Douglas Noel Adams |
| "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." »Langston Hughes |
| "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." »William Blake |
| "The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most." »Joseph Wood Krutch |
| "A wise old owl sat upon 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 Hersey Richards |
| "I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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