Feathers Quotes · Page 6

Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind

— Shania Twain

“And maybe... you are a little fat bear cub with no wings, and no feathers.”

— Else Holmelund Minarik

Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.

— William Shakespeare

“It's not enough to have the feathers. You must dare to fly!”

— Cass van Krah

A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.

— George Herbert

Birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time

— Jean Paul Richter

Whether two birds of a feather fly or fall, it'll be together.

— Slimkid3

My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

— T. S. Eliot

I think a pillow should be the peace symbol, not the dove. The pillow has more feathers than the dove, and it…

— Jack Handey

"You're next, after the feather dancers." And you had to get their attention, because otherwise people would go, "Oh, a poet." You…

— Sandra Cisneros

I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers.

— Anne Heche

The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.

— Nicholas Monsarrat

Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.

— Robert M. Gates

I don't like a lot of feathers and frills. I like a clean aesthetic, a Calvin Klein aesthetic.

— Chad Michaels

The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is…

— Baba Hari Dass

“Oh, chicken feathers!" Sophie said. "I've got a song in my heart and it needs to come out!”

— Dayle Anne Dodds

Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things.…

— Bibhu Mohapatra

Instead of focusing on some thoughts and feelings and pushing away others, just look at them as feathers flying in the wind.…

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O…

— Anonymous

The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

To go to law is for two persons to kindle a fire, at their own cost, to warm others and singe themselves…

— Owen Feltham

Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is…

— Diane Setterfield

Democracy is the eagle on the back of a dollar bill, with 13 arrows in one claw, 13 leaves on a branch,…

— Johnny Carson

Without feathers it isn't easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers. [Lat., Sine pennis volare hau facilest: meae alae pennas…

— Plautus

We made love. How pedestrian the words look-trite, worn, practically featureless with use-but how can one better describe that which happens when…

— Ken Kesey

“We round the frangipani, coming face-to-face with two peacocks---one male, with magnificent iridescent plumage sparkling in royal blues, greens, and golden browns,…

— Samantha Verant

“What's that sound?" Fran said. Then something as big as a vulture flapped heavily down from one of the trees and landed…

— Raymond Carver

Listen: there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around Him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing…

— Hildegard of Bingen

Somebody has been a complete ratbag all their life and they've gotten away with it, and they die happy and rich, we…

— Margaret Atwood

We are a people that let the small things just go by because it's a little uncomfortable and nobody wants to ruffle…

— Don Iveson

Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope…

— Virginia Woolf

“Bird of Paradise, feather among leaves, To the earthy soil I am bound and tied. Anchored by claws of roots and weighty…

— Marie Helen Abramyan

“If it were only feathers that could transform a sparrow into a peacock" -Liesl”

— S. Jae-Jones

Feathers are light; but when they come together, they become heavy!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.

— Corrie Ten Boom

“Birds of the same feathers flock together, and when they flock together they fly so high.”

— Cecil Thounaojam

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

— Emily Dickinson

You might be a redneck if a full-grown ostrich has fewer feathers than your cowboy hat.

— Jeff Foxworthy

What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?

— William Shakespeare

“Well aren't you full of sunshine and donkey feathers.”

— Angie Fox