“Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician.” — Orville Wright Copy Share Image
Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I am from many places. I am from a hike across Tuscany...waves of golden wheat undulating on the hills...tractors plowing new vineyards...taxi… — Marie Bradby Copy Share Image
The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire mesh moved from… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In order to weep, I had descended to the realm of the dead themselves, to their secret chambers, led by the invisible… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
If standing for liberty and the Constitution makes you a Wacko Bird, then count me a proud Wacko Bird. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
[Richard Crossley's] previous bird guide, for ID'ing Eastern birds, is the most imaginative, original attempt to re-envision the birding guide and set… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
You folks been following the big British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? I'm telling you, British Petroleum has put… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Larry Bird is like a basketball god to me for what he's done for my career. — Jalen Rose Copy Share Image
A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to… — Richie Sambora Copy Share Image
The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm. — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Who in their right mind wouldn't listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful… — Larry Bird Copy Share Image
I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS… — William James Copy Share Image
When we accept our own wild beauty, it is put into perspective, and we are no longer poignantly aware of it anymore,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Promise me you’ll marry me. Not now. Someday. Because I need to know.” Claire felt a flutter inside, like a bird trying… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means… — John N. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
I call wild niggas together like Cyrus, And knock off more birds than the West Nile Virus. — Bumpy Knuckles Copy Share Image
These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to mention the… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I do not know why it matters that I should tell the truth to myself at night, why it should matter that… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them. — John Simm Copy Share Image
![“[Richard Crossley's] previous bird guide, for ID'ing Eastern birds, is the most imaginative, original attempt to re-envision the birding guide and set his approach apart from that of Sibley, Kaufman, Peterson, Nat'l Geo, and the other bibles in the field.” quote by James Wolcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a38/james-wolcott-8178_approach_richard-crossley-s-previous-bird-guide-f_2227873.jpg)
