Bird Quote by Doris Lessing

“catch so many fish that their nets begin to tear and they need help from fishermen in other boats to haul in the catch.…

— Matthew Kelly

“A pious man explained to his followers: 'It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save…

— Amy Tan

“The Drunken Fisherman" Wallowing in this bloody sty, I cast for fish that pleased my eye (Truly Jehovah's bow suspends No pots of gold…

— Robert Lowell

“We haven’t got that kind of time. All we have is mind and mind, that slate of neurons for which the skull serves as…

— Vanessa Place

Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.

— Thomas Adams

“Gannets I am watching the white gannets blaze down into the water with the power of blunt spears and a stunning accuracy-- even though…

— Mary Oliver

“Good Lord, just think what poor old God must go through also,” he said with a laugh. “He certainly got himself in hot water…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are…

— Saint Augustine

Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly! wherefore…

— Francois Fenelon

“the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water”

— Virginia Woolf

“We are surely doomed to hover continually upon the brink of Eternity, without taking the final plunge into the abyss. From billows a thousand…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“A fish in shallow waters is secure, but that is not why God gave it fins.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo