"You needn't tell a bird it's a bird.……" — Maggie Stiefvater
"You needn't tell a bird it's a bird. Or remind a fish of its purpose. It's only us who lose our way. We have names because we must. - from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter"
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661 Quotes by Maggie Stiefvater
Maggie Stiefvater has 661 quotes on this site.
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I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My…
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There are moments that you'll remember for the rest of your life and there are moments that you think you'll…
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She kissed me harder, breath huffing into my mouth, and bit my lip. Oh, hell that was amazing. I growled…
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I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges.…
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When you were born, the rivers dried up and the cattle in Rockingham County wept blood.
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So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes,…
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I'd be happy with this summer if it's all we ever had.
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The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was…
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That was a weird thought. My straight-up mother being bothered by faeries? Delia was even weirder. I could picture the…
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There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.
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If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us.…
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I watched her and I watched the birds' shadows flit across her face, and I...wanted. I wanted more happy memories…
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More Bird Quotes
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Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
— Neil Armstrong
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What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and…
— David Attenborough
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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone…
— David Attenborough
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Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know…
— David Attenborough
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
— John James Audubon
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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
— Abu Bakr
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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that…
— Douglas Adams
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California…
— Roseanne Barr
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
— James M. Barrie
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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
— Lynda Barry
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A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
— Drew Barrymore
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