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Birds Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell
- This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high…
- Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O what shall we…
- There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements they…
- The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless…
More Birds Quotes
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- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon
- It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you. — Abu Bakr
- I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. — Lynda Barry
- As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural… — John Adams
- Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned. — William Bartram
- The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see… — Eric Berne
- There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but… — Henry Ward Beecher
- I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. — George Best
- Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody. — Eubie Blake