The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising… — Lawrence Hargrave Copy Share Image
This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present,… — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
We want to know what our self is. We are the sky. Our thoughts are the birds that come and go. You… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking;… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“I love the freedom of my wings. I love the empty space above the ground. I rejoice in my freedom. Freedom is… — Banani Ray Copy Share Image
Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I think a bird is the worst present you can give somebody because it's guilt-ridden. This animal has the gift of flight,… — Kyle Dunnigan Copy Share Image
A tree that allows birds to nest in it should never complain about its shred leaves. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts. — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
All three of my books, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora," "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres," and "Birds of… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Basting is evil. Basting does nothing for the meat. Why? Skin. Skin is designed to keep stuff out of the bird, so… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang… — Shusaku Endo Copy Share Image
When a fissure off the California coast started pumping and dumping oil on the nearby towns and beaches, everybody started dumping on… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our… — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Copy Share Image
You've got to believe in yourself, or no one will believe in you. Imagination is like a bird on the wing, flying… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Meditation, witnessing, silently sitting and looking at the mind, will be of much help. Not forcing, simply sitting and looking. Not doing… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
