Proverb Quote by Angelo Scolozzi

“A Chinese proverb reminds us: You cannot prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests…

— Anne Bryan Smollin

“When a bird flies too high, it loses its song. -- Old Chinese Proverb”

— Rebecca Yount

“You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. —Chinese…

— James Powell

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair. Chinese…

— Chinese Proverb

We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the…

— Alan Macfarlane

“Although China is short of the people it really needs—scientists, economists, doctors, teachers, practically everybody, in fact, except Indian chiefs—it employs its best and…

— Gordon G. Chang

The Chinese have a saying, ¦ Beware the man with the Buddhas mouth and the snakes heart. This is the perfect example of that.

— LL Cool J

“A bird doesn't know it can fly until it leaves it's nest”

— Timothy Bax

“And when my father would tell me I would say to him, ‘Get to that lake—get my mother there—don’t let it happen again, not…

— John Steinbeck

“A bird only conquers the sky when it has mastered enough courage to lose sight of the ground.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“A bird must rely on its own wings if it is to conquer the sky.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Birds of sorrow may fly over our heads, But we must prevent them from building their nests, For they can cause pain that is…

— Nadine Sadaka Boulos