"may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living"
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"I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird."
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"Possibilities are like the wings of birds; they allow man to soar and to climb to the heavens. And facts are like the atmosphere against which those wings must beat, and without which the soaring bird will surely plummet back to earth."
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"The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun."
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"Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds."
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"But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind."
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"For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl."
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"It's a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused."
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"I don't really diet or anything. I'm miserable when I'm dieting and I like the way I look. I'm really sick of all these actresses looking like birds I'd rather look a little chubby on camera and look like a person in real life, than look great on screen and look like a scarecrow in real life."
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"There is no bird flu in commercial stocks."
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"It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose."
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"That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed."
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"Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again."
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"Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken."
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"The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead."
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"Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off."
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"A foolish dog barks at a flying bird"
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"At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply."
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"As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird 's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings."
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"Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?"
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