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"Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?"
"The bird loves her nest."
"A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre."
"Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp."
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!"
"Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed."
"And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss."
"Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at."
"I never thought I'd be on Sesame Street with Elmo and Big Bird. I'm still thrilled. I'm on a high."
"I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything else and I am part of it. I didn't ask to be put here. I've been lucky finding myself here."
"And what has become of it, where is that onetime love? Now it is the grave of a bird, a drop of black quartz, a chunk of wood eroded by the rain."
"Cómo se acuerda con los pájaros la traducción de sus idiomas?"
"May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them - then men are old."
"A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?"
"God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me."
"Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages."
"Sometimes I see a bird fly by and I feel jealous. But then other times I see a bird fly into a closed window and I feel laughing."
"Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was a service it provided for free."
"Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures."
"For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me."
