On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the… — Brett Hull Copy Share Image
It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he… — Joey Santiago Copy Share Image
God is a lion that comes in the night. God is a hawk gliding among the stars-- If all the stars and… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
In the street, your mouth's a beak, big like a bird, and your future's bleak. — Kool Moe Dee Copy Share Image
[Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak, We shall live well--we shall live very… — Elinor Wylie Copy Share Image
On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the… — David Lack Copy Share Image
It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun And pull out a spark of immortal… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A wonderful bird is a pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough… — Dixon Lanier Merritt Copy Share Image
A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, they… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak… — Paul Kantner Copy Share Image
Across from me at the next row of supports Jim raised his hand and touched his fingers to his thumb a few… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Her, cheer up. Zoey's grandma didn't say the Raven Mockers actually ate people. She said they just picked them up with their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. The… — Leila Aboulela Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not kill: the four most important, and yet, most ignored words in all religious teachings. There is not an asterisk… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image