"Those dull, unmusterious city unemployables, dressed in their grey, secondhand suits."
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"Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic?"
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"It was Shakespeare's notion that on this day birds begin to couple; hence probably arose the custom of sending fancy love-billets."
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"Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch."
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"Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would be against God's Providence."
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"I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang."
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"The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush."
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"Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself."
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"Not an angel of the air, Bird melodious or bird fair, Be absent hence!"
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"Free as a bird to settle where I will."
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"When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!"
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"No matter. The dead bird does not leave the nest."
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"It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest."
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"To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing."
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"Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight. The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power."
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"What could thunderbirds want with us?" I wondered aloud [...] "We'll find out when Big Bird wakes up," Marc said. My father shook his head. "We'll find out now. Wake him up and make him sing."
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"Yes," I say. "Three of these flying birds." I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight - toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind."
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"But I understand now what Tori said about her tattoo representing a fear she overcame-a reminder of where she was, as well as a reminder of who she is now. Maybe there is a way to honor my old life as I embrace my new one. "yes," I say. "Three of these flying birds." I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight-toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind."
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"The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree."
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"Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear; and you shall never find that perception again; never, I say-but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds my lie between you and its return."
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