I talk of love, a scholar's parrot may talk greek, but…

Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Don't be the judge of my life I know in May be weird by I can handle my own life I don't people should…

— Destiny

“To be political, to live in a polis, meant that everything was decided through words and persuasion and not through force and violence. In…

— Hannah Arendt

“As a human being, you are an autonomous (from the Greek, “self-ruling”) being. And”

— Fred Kofman

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings…

— Thomas Hardy

Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal…

— Joseph Addison

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway,…

— Patrick MacGill

And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great…

— Frances Sargent Osgood

Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh…

— Galileo Galilei

Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and…

— Guy Murchie

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

— e. e. cummings

“He unfixes the metal notch and slips his hand around the body of the bird. Feels its heat, its small heart beating. He stares…

— Nina Schuyler

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the…

— Washington Irving

And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start…

— Red Auerbach