That is how I think of peace and peace of mind-as timid birds that we have to search for, not bold ones… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it… — William James Copy Share Image
You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing - On his darkest… — Douglas Malloch Copy Share Image
We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to… — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
The human race is like a bird and it needs both wings to be able to fly. And, at the moment, one… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Sound... if you look at bats you know that navigate with sonar, they're like you know they're very precise. They can even… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
... where do they go when they die? We hear of the elephant graveyards, where the elephants go to die, but how… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
...Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
What happened to your foot?" "I had a little disagreement with an eagle --stupid birds, eagles. He couldn't tell the difference between… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“A gull planed steeply over their heads, a precarious flash of white against the windy blue sky. The short, hacking cry of… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
One day at Princeton, I noticed there were dead birds on the pavement between the campus buildings, where very large trees were.… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
I like to think about society as being a flock of birds: There seems to be a common consciousness in different time… — Penelope Spheeris Copy Share Image
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Bizarrely, our English word 'sturdy' may go back to the Latin turdus, thrush. Anyone described as 'sturdy' in the 1200s was wilfully… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
“A bird is safe when it’s closed in a cage, but it isn’t living. It isn’t flying. You have beautiful wings desperate… — Rachel Morgan Copy Share Image
Once in a while, God sends a good white person my way, even to this day. I think it's God's way of… — Annie Elizabeth Delany Copy Share Image
James McBride's 'The Good Lord Bird' is set in the mid-19th century and is based on the real life of John Brown,… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“...the petrel, mindless of such height, scales each watery hill that rises up, adapting to the shape of each impediment, each low… — David Yezzi Copy Share Image
“A wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more… — Edward Hersey Richards Copy Share Image
There are a lot of New York City Thanksgiving traditions. For example, a lot of New Yorkers don't buy the frozen Thanksgiving… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Silence is the nest and music is the bird. The bird leaves the nest early in the morning and returns to the… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The person who has the most influence on me is my mother. Think of life as a flight where we fly higher… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I am a huge animal lover. Growing up, my mother and I rescued countless animals - dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, even a… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
Gaze not on swans, in whose soft breast, A full-hatched beauty seems to nest Nor snow, which falling from the sky Hovers… — Henry Noel Brailsford Copy Share Image
There's divinity within because we come from the divine, A force that's not seen, but you feel it every time: When the… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
“Just because I flap my arms, that doesn’t make me a bird. No, I’m a bird because I believe myself to be.… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had… — Red Auerbach Copy Share Image
My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings And some are treasured for their markings - They cause the eyes to melt Or… — Craig Raine Copy Share Image
It (jazz) isn't like it used to be. The guys aren't together. They're all separated. Individuals now. Bird was a symbol. It… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
Let your love fly like a bird on a wing And let your love bind you to all livin' things And let… — Lawrence Eugene Williams Copy Share Image
Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“Hey," said Shadow. "Huginn or Muninn, or whoever you are." The bird turned, head tipped, suspiciously, on one side, and it stared… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Was reading a book. It was about a canary. Every year the canarycomes back with a new song. It never repeats its… — Medeski Martin And Wood Copy Share Image
