"I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet."
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"At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds."
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"Think of your woods and orchards without birds! Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beams As in an idiot's brain remembered words Hang empty 'mid the cobwebs of his dreams!"
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"Gone are the birds that were our summer guests."
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"As I began researching butterflies, however, the monarch stood out among all of them. It's the only butterfly - the only insect - that migrates like a bird or a whale!"
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"A bird, music and food -desert island items"
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"You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff."
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"Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird."
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"The only clear thing is that we humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know it. The birds have no such power, nor do the insects, nor does any mammal. Yet if we have the capacity to destroy the earth, so, too, do we have the capacity to protect it."
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"I love Larry Bird, but I don't agree with him. I love him and respect everything about him. I learned a long time ago, and I've made this statement: Coaches don't lose their expertise and ability to make the calls."
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"In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled and examined the pink-skinned baby birds, he popped one of them into his mouth like a jujube. It seemed to please him a lot. He offered a baby bird to me, pantomiming that I should eat it. I understood perfectly well what he meant, but I refused. He did not seem disappointed to have to eat the whole brood himself."
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"The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right, thought you know that it probably will not be."
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"Bird in hand makes it harder to blow nose."
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"Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark."
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"I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams."
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"Everyone in me is a bird I am beating all my wings"
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"I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds."
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"A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime."
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"Lady Bird was very, very shy and yet she would go out and speak publicly on behalf of her husband and on issues that mattered to her. Someone asked her once how she did it, and she said you have to "get so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." And I have found that that absolutely captures those moments when I fought for something I cared about. I get so caught up in fighting for things that are important to me that it pushes me through fear and doubt."
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"somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds."
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