My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd…

My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent…

— Christina Rossetti

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

— Lois Lowry

My heart is like a singing bird.

— Christina Rossetti

When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.

— Roger Zelazny

We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it…

— Johannes Kepler

“Then suddenly he was aware of a man clothed in white who watched him through the falling water of the fountain. As their eyes…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Sitting on the cot with my back against the wall, I held Maisie the way Mam had shown me, cupped over my shoulder. I…

— Christina Baker Kline

“If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.”

— Laura Stoddart

In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains…

— James A. Garfield

I said To This Girl Ya Butt is Humming Its Its Like A bird In Th Sky Singing to another Bird..

— Cj Hollisterboy Paris

Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky; The May-thorn greening in the nook; The minnows sporting in the brook;…

— David Macbeth Moir

“yearn for halcyon days of yore”

— John Green

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline…

— Robert Gilpin

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.

— Chinese Proverb