Air Quote by William Wharton Download Open image “Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.” — William Wharton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Air Bird Feathers Movement
The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear. — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
... where do they go when they die? We hear of the elephant graveyards, where the elephants go to die, but how much more… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
“When I saw them in Africa, I thought these birds were the greatest fliers of all. Hardly beating their wings, they fly for hours, swooping upwards on air currents with no sign of physical effort. But when they land, they pitch forward on their stubby legs without stopping. They skid along on their bellies, their necks straining to absorb the… — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share
Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of the bird and its wings, in the third the method of working the wings in their various movements, in the fourth the power of the wings and the tail when the wings are not being moved and when… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
Birds and the people who love freedom have something common: They must fly freely to feel that they are alive! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Instead, each bird is interacting with up to seven close neighbors, making individual movement decisions based on maintaining velocity and distance from fellow flock… — Jennifer Ackerman Copy Share Image
It occurs to me one evening as I'm feeding the birds that all I did was put two birds in the aviary, some food… — William Wharton Copy Share Image
“Hell, there're already too many psychologists; too many everythings. Too many engineers, too many chemists, too many doctors, too many dentists, too many sociologists.… — William Wharton Copy Share Image
Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is… — William Wharton Copy Share Image
“When brought to meaning, all importance becomes small, as in death, all life seems nothing. Knowing is destroyed by thinking, not destroyed but sterilized;… — William Wharton Copy Share Image
What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves. — William Wharton Copy Share Image
There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something. — William Wharton Copy Share Image
The first time I flew, it was being alive. Nothing was pressing under me. I was living in the fullness of air; air all… — William Wharton Copy Share Image
People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into… — William Wharton Copy Share Image
What is love? As far as I can tell, it is passion, admiration and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you… — William Wharton Copy Share Image
Love is a combination of admiration, respect, and passion. If you have one of those going, that's par for the course. If you have… — William Wharton Copy Share Image
He's convinced most human adults do not know how to play anymore and that playing is one of the best ways to think. Franky… — William Wharton Copy Share Image
I will be a tireless advocate for our District's defense priorities including Sheppard Air Force Base, Pantex, Bell Helicopter, universities conducting important research, and… — Ronny Jackson Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
If U.S. air, naval, missile, and ground forces were not in and around Korea, and if we were not treaty-bound to fight alongside South… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
There was a little nook on Air Force Two that contained the vice presidential seal, and I would sort of wedge myself in there… — Jill Biden Copy Share Image
Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
[A]s you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air.… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
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