Bird quotes
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"If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything."
"The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth."
"What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around."
"The birds they sangat the break of day.Start again!!I heard them say"
"The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place."
"An owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees the the less it talks."
"As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden."
"The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey."
"Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening."
"The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them."
"What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans."
"People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud."
"No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by."
"O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire."
"If you want to retire young and retire rich, it is very important that your money be like a bird dog, going out every day and bringing home more and more assets."
"I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don’t know what to feed it."
"I've been told that some members of Congress disagree with my tax cut proposal. Well, you know it's been said that taxation is the art of plucking feathers without killing the bird. It's time they realized the bird just doesn't have any feathers left."
"May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes, may your wife be plagued with runners in her hose."
"The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her."
"There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it's always raining a slow endless drizzle."
