| "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 |
| "Well, Mr. secretary, I lived in a house without electricity too. No running water, no telephone...I can stand toe-to-toe with you. in response to Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill" »Robert C. Byrd |
| "The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people." »William John Bennett |
| "Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye." »Daniel J. Boorstin |
| "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 |
| "If you want to make certain a job gets done, give it to somebody who is really busy. They'll have their secretary do it." »Joe Moore |
| "Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people." »George Pratt Shultz |
| "When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state." »David Dean Rusk |
| "I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel secretary of State visit to Moscow)" »Ronald Reagan |
| "You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don't give a damn. to secretary of State Henry Kissinger on civilian casualties in Vietnam" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "I know why the caged bird sings." »Maya Angelou |
| "Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko |
| "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "I'd rather use the nuclear bomb...Does that bother you I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake. to secretary of State Henry Kissinger on escalating the Vietnam War" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song." »Chinese Proverb |
| "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 |
| "The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp." »John Berry |
| "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 |
| "Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark." »Rabindranath Tagore |
| "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 |
| "To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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