For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird — Josephine Hart 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
If you are a sparrow, don't attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don't attack the sparrow; be just! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies. — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“If the bird was made, it chose to be made. It's here because it chooses to be with you.” — Alethea Kontis Copy Share Image
I don't want a be bird because birds get attacked too much. But it would be cool to fly. — David Archuleta Copy Share Image
O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush'd and smooth! — John Keats Copy Share Image
“I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything.” — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
We have used up all our inherited freedom, like the young bird the albumen in the egg. It is not an era… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I'm bored. I need to be entertained. Sam is moping. I may kill him with his own guitar. It would give me… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Martin Luther, when he walked in the woods, used to raise his hat to the birds and say, ‘Good morning, theologians—you wake… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
“And a bird overhead sang Follow, And a bird to the right sang Here; And the arch of the leaves was hollow,… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
It takes two wings for an eagle to fly. If an eagle were to try to fly with just one wing he… — Rick Joyner Copy Share Image
Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds,… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive. Look at me: I arrive in every second to… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply.… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
As might be expected of creatures so heavenly in color, the disposition of bluebirds is particularly angelic. Gentleness and amiability are expressed… — Neltje Blanchan Copy Share Image
This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late… — Graham Chapman Copy Share Image
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
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