Feathered Quotes
30 quotes by 28 authors
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Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
— Lord Chesterfield
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When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.
— John Dryden
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Feathered with hoarfrost, skeletal trees loom closer; fog shrouded arches.
— Paul Brown
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Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of…
— William Shakespeare
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Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of…
— Alan Feduccia
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Of all created things the source is one, Simple, single as love; remember The cell and seed of life, the sphere That is, of child,…
— Kathleen Raine
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The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own…
— Aesop
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Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a…
— Luther Standing Bear
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Now that I know that each star has its path, each bird is finally feathered and grown in the unbroken shell, each tree in the…
— Judith Wright
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Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been done any better.
— Bob Hoover
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I live within the vivid colors of my imagination, soaring with rainbow-feathered birds, racing the desert winds on horseback, wrapped in ancient tribal jewels, dancing…
— Laurel Burch
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Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a…
— Tim Cahill
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I think if we all gardened more, they and all of the other birds that fly in the air above and light in my garden…
— Vigen Guroian
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The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered…
— Cameron Diaz
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Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some…
— John Cage
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What shall I say? I must tread a fine line between glaciosity and friendlinosity. With just a hint of 'you don't know what you are…
— Louise Rennison
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(on grief) And you do come out of it, that’s true. After a year, after five. But you don’t come out of it like a…
— Julian Barnes
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Schuyler put a gentle hand on Abbadon's feathered extensions, feeling the majestic power underneath their silky weight. She had been frightened once, to see him…
— Melissa de la Cruz
Who Wrote These Feathered Quotes
28 authors contributed a total of 30 Feathered Quotes, led by these top contributors: