Feathers Quotes

351 quotes by 296 authors

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. — Aesop
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. — Lord Byron
Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that is the feather in any… — Steve Carell
Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. — Maya Angelou
Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers. — Robert Henri
I don't have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes. — Yves Rossy
Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills. — Leonardo da Vinci
I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the… — Morgan Freeman
We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors. — Anne Roiphe
What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never… — Charles Dickens
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead. — Alexander Pope
In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not… — Christian Morgenstern
The falcon and the dove sit there together, and the one of them doth prune the other's feather. — Michael Drayton
[S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand scale. There is… — Leonard Read
How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of… — Joseph Wood Krutch
You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in… — Elizabeth Bibesco
Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a… — Alan Feduccia
Winning the world championship in '66 was really the pinnacle of the whole thing, because to win a championship with an Australian made engine was… — Jack Brabham
If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by… — Lois Duncan
My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand. — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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