Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed Their snow-white blossoms on my head, With brightest sunshine round me spread Of spring's unclouded weather,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Of all the four major sports, whether you like Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, maybe you like Bobby Orr, or you like Larry… — Shannon Sharpe Copy Share Image
As you know, birds do not have sexual organs because they would interfere with flight. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
A few birds flew out from the mountains and glided for a while without sound. Standing out against the sky on high… — Cesar Aira Copy Share Image
First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd be on Sesame Street with Elmo and Big Bird. I'm still thrilled. I'm on a high. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Suttree surfaced from these fevered deeps to hear a maudlin voice chant latin by his bedside, what medieval ghost come to usurp… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Throughout all of human history we have consumed the natural world. All creatures do. Birds do. Fish do. Earthworms do. We consume… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
When I was young I was on punishment a lot and I used to watch a lot of TV, and I asked… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
A man could not be in two places at the same time unless he were a bird. — Boyle Roche 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
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. . . . The… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
...in the woods, if you stopped, if you grew still, you'd hear a whole new set of sounds, wind rasping through silhouetted… — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
“Not every hen lay eggs. Not every hen that lays eggs gets them hatched. Not everyone born with greatness becomes as such.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Now, if we understand what unlucky persons are, we shall see that they are to be shunned, or that we are to… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
I always see to the dogs first and leave the cats and the occasional birds and rabbits and hamsters for later. It… — Blaize Clement Copy Share Image
Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and everything that… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
It is common talk that every individual is entitled to economic security. The only animals and birds I know that have economic… — Ray Lyman Wilbur Copy Share Image
I think the greatest player I've ever played against was Magic Johnson. Next, was Larry Bird. Then, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. — John Salley Copy Share Image
“A woman's body is a sacred temple. A work of art, and a life-giving vessel. And once she becomes a mother, her… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels. — John Muir Copy Share Image
More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms… — William Kean Seymour Copy Share Image
My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
If you want to fly like a bird , you must have a beak at least , if not speaking about wings. — Mohammad MUSTAFA Copy Share Image
Every generation has their own great players. Who's to say that anyone's better than Cheryl Miller or Nancy Lieberman? Whose anyone to… — Diana Taurasi Copy Share Image
Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
