Feathers Quotes

351 quotes by 296 authors

You can't put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken! — Phil McGraw
A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened with a seal.… — Knut Hamsun
To believe that God created a plurality of worlds, at least as numerous as what we call stars, renders the Christian faith at once little… — Thomas Paine
The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The… — Victor Hugo
Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather. — Robert Jordan
It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can… — Neil Gaiman
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them… — Stephen King
Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere,… — Jonathan Safran Foer
All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had never… — Toni Morrison
GOD: I own you like I own the caves. THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison. GOD: I made you. I could tame you. THE… — Dave Eggers
Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken. — Isabel Allende
Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand,… — Virginia Woolf
Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day,… — Thornton Wilder
One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather. — Paul Valery
It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap. — Agatha Christie
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated… — Virginia Woolf
While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not… — Margaret Atwood
How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the… — Khalil Gibran
These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating — Vine Deloria, Jr.

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