Feathers Quotes

351 quotes by 296 authors

So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft:… — Aeschylus
Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead. — Corrie Ten Boom
Man is a two-legged animal without feathers. — Plato
Whether two birds of a feather fly or fall, it'll be together. — Slimkid3
Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in… — John Milton
I don't get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa? — Boy George
Americans want beauties, not me. Iâ€™m not the Parisian bombshell they expected. Can you see me as a chorus girl? Whereâ€™s my feather up the… — Edith Piaf
The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how… — Carrie Chapman Catt
A willing heart adds feather to the heel. — Joanna Baillie
Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten… — D. H. Lawrence
If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the Church and Kingdom.… — Wilford Woodruff
You can't make chicken salad out of chicken feathers — Joe Kuhel
No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it--no plan to retain this or that of the devil… — George MacDonald
Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. Iâ€™m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its… — Alexander McQueen
Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers… — Will Smith
Iâ€™m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel… — Stephen King
When you are in school, your talents are without number, and your promise is boundless...But at a certain point, you begin to feel your talents… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with… — Charles Caleb Colton
Listen: there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around Him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing the banners of… — Hildegard of Bingen
On the contrary, there is a considerable body of evidence that these fossil traces, known as 'dino-fuzz', have nothing to do with bird feathers... I,… — Alan Feduccia

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