Bird Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Contemplating the adolescence through which we scorned the wrong, some of us must wish … that we could be born old, and grow younger…

— Channing Pollock

Thou has neither youth nor sleep but as it were an after dinner sleep dreaming of both

— Shakespeare

“Now the day is done, Now the shepherd sun Drives his white flocks from the sky; Now the flowers rest On their mother's breast,…

— Louisa May Alcott

“(from: Age Sixty-nine) Often, lately, the night is a cold maw and stars the scattered white teeth of the gods, which spare none of…

— Jim Harrison

“Aside I turn to the holy, unspeakable, mysterious Night. Afar lies the world -- sunk in a deep grave -- waste and lonely is…

— Novalis

“On the day of the dead, when the year too dies, Must the youngest open the oldest hills Through the door of the birds,…

— Susan Cooper

This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor Fades from the skies when the sun sinks to sleep.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“The morning sun brings tender joy With happiness awakes the earth; The dew kissed flowers it's light employ Their petals open in new birth.…

— Paul Thompson

There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may resent the…

— Richard Livingstone

Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait, His day's hot task hath ended in the west: The owl, night's herald, shrieks-'tis very late; The…

— William Shakespeare

“Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick, Youth must be foolish and mirthful and blind,…

— Tennessee Williams

“WHEN the voices of children are heard on the green, And laughing is heard on the hill, My heart is at rest within my…

— William Blake