The intent of sincere humanitarians is to do good to society, just as the intent of the child who kills a bird… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share Image
Things that influence me are my kids, their happiness, colorfulness, and vitality. My husband - he comes up with some great quotes… — Mary Engelbreit Copy Share Image
Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
My father said you can't make a living in birds, my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
Isen wasn't a two birds with one stone kind of guy. More like one stone, two birds, a rabbit, a fox, and… — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
The Australian wedge-tailed eagle has enormous eyes, both in absolute terms and compared with most other birds, and as a result has… — Tim Birkhead Copy Share Image
I have a Bird in spring Which for myself doth sing - The spring decoys. And as the summer nears - And… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“I’ve figured it out, something that was never clear to me before–how all creation transposes itself out of the world deeper and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I was stuck in traffic one day and just kinda thought it would be funny to masturbate. It was sunny and clear… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Take hold of your own life. See that the whole existence is celebrating. These trees are not serious, these birds are not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They are lovely pigeons to look at and their eyes are full of lessons to learn.." They came back yesterday, they came… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
World Migratory Bird Day is an opportunity to celebrate the great natural wonder of bird migration - but also a reminder that… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
CROWN Too much rain loosens trees. In the hills giant oaks fall upon their knees. You can touch parts you have no… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
“A bird hopped onto the foaming lilac outside. Its throat quivered; notes rose and fell out. As long as it kept singing… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds'… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best time of… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened.… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
One of the most humbling gigs I've ever had was I was paid by a neighbor to go get a dead bird… — Walker Hayes Copy Share Image
April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats,… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
We heard no other sounds. We met no other people. We saw only two bright red birds leap startled from the center… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The best thing you can do when you're not feeling funny is go out and get more stimuli from the world, get… — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
I flipped the good doctor the bird. Snorting, Gideon caught my hand and pulled me back down the hall. "What is it… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
I feel like my dream animal would be a mermaid that could fly and also live in the trees. She has a… — Banks Copy Share Image
India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Once you develop the practice of smiling, you may not need a reminder. You will smile as soon as you hear a… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
