To the birds and trees he talks: Caesar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco.… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
It's no fun watching you disintegrate. Where is the old "I Love Myself" mantra? You need to feel you are indeed lovable… — Kirby Wright Copy Share Image
It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The first time I came across the birds and the bees in actual flight, I couldn't identify the formation. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I can see inside planes!' he yells. 'Come and look!' It's difficult climbing in a mini dress...I haul myself up even though… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior - greed and stupidity and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Catelyn had never liked this godswood. She had been born a Tully, at Riverrun far to the south, on the Red Fork… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From my earliest memories I was fascinated by animals. I would explore my backyard for insects and gaze at anthills until my… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free… — Wendy Farley Copy Share Image
“A Rule: Life without Islam is a naked tree, Birds without trees can never feel free.” — Leena Ahmad Almashat Copy Share Image
The unvarnished truth is that a trained dog is a perishable commodity. Few things are so subject to deterioration. It is almost… — Havilah Babcock Copy Share Image
The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Charlotte Corday walked alone Paris birds sang sugar calls Charlotte walked down lanes of stone through the haze of perfume stalls Charlotte… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
God, we thank you for this earth, our homes; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the salt sea and… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
I couldn't get away with Halloween pranks 'cause my parents owned the health food store. So, it was so easy to bust… — Arj Barker Copy Share Image
Every bird that sings, sings for you. Every breeze that blows, blows for you. Every sunray shines for you. If you only… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
"The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in," says he, with a grin, "'T the blackbird an' phoebe… — John Townsend Trowbridge Copy Share Image
Every nation needs two wings to fly. Any bird torn at the wings will never soar the skies. — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
The flesh is sweeter, where the creature has some chance for its life; for that reason, I always use a single ball,… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
I rose from marsh mud algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs. — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard. — Trevor Dunn Copy Share Image
Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing… — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
When I look at birds and animals, their survival is without rules, without conditions, without organization. But mothers take good care of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
One day I'm going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image