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Birds Quotes by Michael Ondaatje
- Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural pauses. He is…
- She had lived in that house fourteen years, and every year she had demanded of John that she be given a pet of some strange…
- Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a large hole at…
- He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house....he…
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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